Public Counsel<\/a> in 1970, which provided legal support to vulnerable people, including veterans and unhoused families, in what is now the largest firm of its kind in the U.S.<\/p>\n\u201cPublic Counsel really is his greatest legacy,\u201d Nicholas\u2019 son, Anthony Nicholas, told The Times on Tuesday. \u201cThey are still helping people today.\u201d <\/p>\n
Nicholas was born on May 30, 1920 in Brooklyn, N.Y. When he was 14, his family moved to L.A. In 1941, Nicholas served in the Army and was discharged five years later. <\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the things that made me successful in law was that I was always in a hurry. I was always eager to move because I felt that I had lost so much time in the war. I had to make it up,\u201d Nicholas, one of the oldest and most decorated WWII veterans, said in a retrospective on his life and work at age 100.<\/p>\n
Nicholas was also adored by his family. Anthony recalled his father\u2019s \u201cbeaming smile,\u201d \u201cgreat, great energy\u201d and \u201cthe love he spread around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nicholas is survived by his children, Deborah, Jan and Anthony; Anthony\u2019s wife Mona; six grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and sister Helen Devor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frederick M. Nicholas, a war hero, attorney and real estate developer who shaped several of Los Angeles\u2019 major…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":31464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[26583,1037,26586,1582,276,2556,26582,26580,2961,26585,224,2444,5337,26584,26581,21783,19027,26587,8066,1628],"class_list":{"0":"post-31463","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-anthony-nicholas","9":"tag-art","10":"tag-blake-meidel","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-california","13":"tag-development","14":"tag-disney-concert-hall","15":"tag-frederick-m-nicholas","16":"tag-la","17":"tag-life-trustee","18":"tag-los-angeles","19":"tag-los-angeles-times","20":"tag-losangeles","21":"tag-major-l-a-landmark","22":"tag-moca","23":"tag-nicholas","24":"tag-public-counsel","25":"tag-unhoused-family","26":"tag-work","27":"tag-year"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114781347133500146","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}