Boyd Law Magazine 2023-24

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THE MAGAZINE OF THE WILLIAM S. BOYD SCHOOL OF LAW AT UNLV | 2023

WELCOME TO THE PROS WITH LAS VEGAS BECOMING A PREMIER SPORTS CITY, BOYD GRADUATES PLY THEIR TRADE WITH BIG-LEAGUE FRANCHISES

THE 82ND LEGISLATURE

BOYD LAW TURNS 25

MEET THE EXTERNS

Contents Boyd Law 2023

26 LL.M. in Gaming Law and Regulation

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“ I am a managing partner at a law firm in Macau. I have

been following the program for a long time, but wasn’t in the position to leave my firm for a year. When the program went

online during the pandemic, I took the opportunity to enroll. The remote experience was difficult because of the time difference, but I learned from the best in the field and had great classmates. The program was a great way to increase my skills and knowledge. With the learning of the program I have been able to enhance the quality and perception of clients’ needs. I am a true advocate of the program and recommend it to all that want to specialized in the industry. “ Pedro Cortes (LL.M., 2021) Managing Partner, Rato Ling Lei & Cortes

Our Silver Anniversary A look back at the Boyd School of Law’s first 25 years.

Big League Dreams

Flexible Schedules: Available on a part-time or full-time basis with early morning classes and one-week intensives. Now offering the Executive Hybrid Track for gaming law professionals.

Las Vegas’ emergence on the national sports scene opens new career paths for Boyd students.

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The Impact of Internships Page 8

The UNLV Alumni Advantage: J.D. alumni from UNLV can transfer up to 9 units of UNLV gaming coursework toward the 24 unit LL.M. program.

Establish Your Network: Gain access to professional conferences, events, and fieldtrips.

Network with top gaming professionals and alumni.

Giving the Kids a Voice

Creating New Paths Thanks to partnerships — including with the UNLV medical school — externs gain valuable experience outside the classroom.

ON THE COVER: Boyd Law students help Las Vegas prepare to host its first Super Bowl.

DEPARTMENTS

2 FROM THE DEAN’S DESK 8 THE LEGISLATURE

10 SOCIETY OF ADVOCATES 12 ALUMNI

16 BOYD LAW EVENTS 36 FACULTY FOCUS

41 IMMIGRANT JUSTICE 46 DISPUTE RESOLUTION 2023 | 1

FROM THE DEAN’S DESK

A Celebration of Milestones and Making History

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his year marks the 25th Anniversary of the founding of the William S. Boyd School of Law — our Silver Anniversary. As I reflect on the past 25 years, I think of the many people it took to create this law school — Nevada’s first.

Standing upon their shoulders, our law school continues to make history, some of which is highlighted in this year’s magazine.

The UNLV Immigration Clinic and Kid’s Court School both turn 20 years old this year.

Stories that detail these institutions and how they have bettered the lives of our community members can be found on Pages 4-5.

2023 was a big year for professional sports in Las Vegas with the Vegas Golden Knights clinching their first Stanley Cup and the Las Vegas Aces winning their second straight championship. Las Vegas’ arrival on the national sports scene provides students with experiential opportunities and alumni with the chance to use their law degrees to impact the local professional sports industry. Read about them

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Boyd Law School Dean Leah Chan Grinvald stands with the incoming first-year law students at the annual Intro to Law Week.

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The 2023 Boyd Law magazine is a celebration of Boyd Law’s past, present, and future and commemorates the many people who have contributed to its successes. It is a glimpse into what the next 25 years has in store for us.”

BOYD LAW EDITOR TOMMY GUGINO ASSOCIATE EDITOR HEATHER RAPPAPORT GRAPHIC DESIGNER CHED WHITNEY CONTRIBUTING WRITERS MATT JACOB PATRICK MCDONNELL PAUL SZYDELKO SHAN BATES CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS JOSH HAWKINS, CONNIE PALEN, BECCA SCHWARTZ UNLV PRESIDENT KEITH E. WHITFIELD

on Page 18.

Boyd Law continues to recruit world-class instructors. The faculty continue to break barriers, including the newly-arrived Professor Danielle Finn, who is the only female Native American professor at UNLV. These new faculty members are exceptional teachers and scholars in their respective fields, which you can read about on Page 38.

Many of Boyd Law alumni continue to make Nevada a better place to live. Ten of them work to make their community safer at the Henderson City Attorney’s Office (story on Page 8), while alumna Silvia Villanueva advocates for those in need in northern Nevada (Page 14).

They also continue to make history, like Priscila Venzor, Chapman Noam and Cristian Gonzalez Perez, who were all selected to receive 2023 Immigrant Justice Corps Justice Fellowships (Page 40) and are all working at our Community Advocacy Office.

The 2023 Boyd Law magazine is a celebration of Boyd Law’s past, present, and future and commemorates the many people who have contributed to its successes. It is a glimpse into what the next 25 years has in store for us.

And it is an exciting future.

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IMMIGRATION CLINIC

KIDS’ COURT

Students who work on Kids’ Court School with Professor Nathanson have one mission: Enable children to tell their story in court.

Giving the Kids a Voice

BY MATT JACOB

Shaping the Law Boyd students make Immigration Clinic vital to community

BY PAT MCDONNELL

For two decades, UNLV’s Immigration Clinic has safeguarded its local community from the fear of deportation.

Joyce Mack Professor of Law Michael Kagan, director of the school’s student-led clinic since 2011, says its Community Advocacy Office has opened doors to people striving to stay in the United States and been a haven for unaccompanied minors.

For example, the clinic’s Managing Attorney Alissa Cooley and Katelyn Leese, both 2014 Boyd grads who

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were funded to provide legal service through Justice AmeriCorps grants, helped more than 100 unaccompanied children and teens avoid deportation through their representation.

“Thanks to the work Alissa and Katelyn did (from 2014 to 2016), virtually every one of those kids has a green card now,” Kagan said. “I’m proud that several people who are alums of the law school paved the way.”

Those who study the law also pave the way by shaping the law. Coco Padilla (’22) crafted a bill draft request to help immigrants in Nevada receive pro-bono deportation defense.

Those services at the Community Advocacy Office were a Silver State first. The Nevada Legislature ap-

proved Padilla’s new policy idea as Assembly Bill 376, signed into law June 11, 2021. It allocated $500,000 to the Immigration Clinic.

“Coco’s work was the spark of all that,” Kagan said. The clinic also provides free legal services to UNLV students, staff and their families.

Kagan looks to a reformed immigration system as his hope for the Immigration Clinic’s future over the next two decades, a time when deportation will be less of a focus in so many lives.

“That’s so our work would be less necessary,” he said. “My first dream would be that we’re not in business in that way. I hope we will always be seen as a neighbor who is there when we’re needed.”

When one of its child clients wins the right to stay safely in the United States, the UNLV Immigration Clinic staff preserves that child’s handprint as a reminder of what is at stake in immigration cases and what legal advocacy can accomplish.

In an ideal world, no child would ever have to walk into a courtroom, take the witness stand and testify under oath about being abused.

Unfortunately, that world doesn’t exist.

So the best that the legal community can do is adequately prepare children for what can be a traumatizing, anxiety-riddled experience. And that is precisely what Rebecca Nathanson has done for the past two decades — with a massive helping hand from hundreds of William S. Boyd School of Law students.

Launched at Boyd in October 2002, Kids’ Court School was created to educate children ages 4-17 about what to expect from the moment they walk into the courtroom until they’re dismissed.

Created and directed by Nathanson, who is the James E. Rogers Professor of Education and Law at Boyd, the program relies on a standardized, evidence-based curriculum to train kids about all manners of courtroom proceedings and investigative processes.

That educational component is covered in an initial one-hour session.

Then about a week before a child is scheduled to testify, they return for a second one-hour session that focuses on alleviating stress and building confidence. That’s promptly followed by a mock trial that takes place inside Boyd Law’s Thomas & Mack Moot Court.

“My goal when I set out to implement this was to make sure that kids were ready for and had a voice in court,” says Nathanson, who developed the program in the early 1990s while working as a research fellow at the UCLA School of Medicine. “Because we know that kids know very little about court — and what they do know often comes from incorrect information. We also know kids are very nervous about going to court.”

Kids’ Court School operates yearround, with roughly eight to 12 Boyd students trained to teach the program each fall, spring, and summer semester. Those students, who receive pro bono hours and community service credit for participating, also oversee the mock trial aspect.

Nathanson says more than 1,700 youngsters have attended Kids’ Court School in the last 20 years, and as many as 400 students have volunteered — all of whom have found the experience rewarding.

“Kids’ Court gives our law students an opportunity to see what it’s like to interview kids in court,” says Nathanson, who arrived at Boyd Law in 2000.

“More importantly, though, it gives them a chance to do impactful community service and really feel — as so many have often told me — that they’re making a difference in a kid’s life.”

Indeed, Nathanson’s program has been so successful that it has won several awards, including a Bright Idea Award from Harvard University for innovation in American government.

It also has been implemented at other institutions, including the University of Arizona and the National Judicial College at the University of Nevada, Reno.

“None of us can change what happened to these kids,” Nathanson says.

“But by empowering them in the way Kids’ Court does, it really helps them heal.”

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None of us can change what happened to these kids. But by empowering them in the way Kids’ Court does, it really helps them heal.”

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THE 82ND LEGISLATIVE SESSION

Making an Impact Thanks to several students, alumni and faculty of the William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV, four new laws were passed during the 82nd Legislative Session. Laws passed included funding for the Thomas & Mack Legal Clinic, an update of state gaming regulation requirement, new feminine hygiene product labeling, and environmental justice assistance for a local neighborhood.

AB328 provides $500,000 each year to the Thomas & Mack Legal Clinic at the William S. Boyd School of Law over the next two years. This helps to further fund the Community Advocacy Office, as well as provide support to the many other clinics that are under the Thomas & Mack Legal Clinic

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umbrella. AB328 went into effect July 1, 2023.

SB266 was passed, with LLM alumnus Doug Billing’s and Professor Becky Harris’ assistance. The passage of SB266 removes a requirement that Nevada companies provide state gaming regulators copies of all documents filed in other jurisdictions. Instead, the companies just need to inform the control board of their gaming operations in another jurisdiction. The bill took effect on July 1, 2023.

AB169 was passed with help from current student Kelsey Lamph. The new law requires companies selling feminine hygiene products in Nevada to list specific ingredients on the label that have been identified as carcino-

genic, linked to neurotoxicity, toxic to reproductive organs or designated as a “priority pollutant” in Nevada water.

It also requires manufacturers to list harmful chemicals on their websites.

The bill will take effect on January 1, 2025.

SB450 was passed with assistance from Professor Frank Fritz, Boyd alumni Sebastian Ross and Candace Mays, and part-time student Alco Robinson. SB450, the Windsor Park Environmental Justice Act, was approved by Governor Lombardo on June 16, 2023. The signed act established a relocation program for the affected residents whose homes have been damaged by the sinking ground and gave the affected residents a chance to exchange their damaged homes for a newly constructed residence adjacent to Windsor Park.

THE 82ND LEGISLATIVE SESSION

2023 LEGISLATIVE EXTERNS

Legislative extern TJ Milk holds up a UNLV Rebel flag at the State Capital in Carson City.

NAME YEAR Michael Bauwens 3LPT Christopher Bechtel 2L Danielle Bennett 2L Aubrey Bepko 3L Harrison Bohn 3L Taylor Duffy 3L Caitlin Gwin 2L Kelsey Lamph 2L Erin Lutes 2L Nina Machin 2L Theodore Milk 2L Alexander Perron 3L

EXTERNSHIP Department of Indigent Defense Services RTC ACLU Rowe Law Group Brownstein UNLV Govt & Community Engagement CCPD Rowe Law Group Departmentt of Indigent Defense Services Rowe Law Group UNLV Government & Community Engagement Brownstein 2023 | 7

HENDERSON CITY ATTORNEYS

HENDERSON CITY ATTORNEYS

No Two Days the Same

PAYING IT FORWARD

BY PAUL SZYDELKO

The Impact of Internships

BY PAUL SZYDELKO

Unsettled about her career, Ekaterina “Katie” Derjavina interned for six months at the Rochester, N.Y., district attorney’s office while she was pursuing an undergraduate degree in psychology at SUNY Brockport. She discovered she loved the law so much that she moved across the country, earned a degree at the William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV in 2015, and is now a Henderson assistant city attorney (criminal division), making a difference in local justice.

She is proud that her office has done the most Battery Constituting Domestic Violence jury trials of all Southern Nevada jurisdictions.

Derjavina chose Boyd Law after

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attending an open house while visiting a friend. “Every student I interacted with talked about how Boyd is a community, and everyone wants you to succeed. It was not ‘cutthroat’ that you expect from law school,” she says.

She remembers professor Nancy B. Rapoport taking time in her office to explain a legal term Derjavina wasn’t grasping in contract law.

“She never made me feel inadequate for not understanding it but rather made me feel supported. She wanted to make sure I understood it, and I thrived in her class. This reaffirmed the reason I ultimately chose Boyd Law.” Lawyering Process was also difficult for Derjavina because legal writing is so much different than writing

a psychology paper. “I had to relearn how to write. However, those classes made me such a better writer. I have heard judges comment that they can tell when a new attorney is a Boyd Law graduate based on their writing.”

Derjavina, 35, was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, spent most of her youth in Brooklyn but decided to practice in Southern Nevada even though she intended to move away after graduation. Just as her internship in the Rochester DA’s office convinced her of her love for the law, her externship with the Clark County DA’s office convinced her to stay.

“I truly believe that the law school does a great job connecting students to internships/externships in the community, and I hope they continue to do that,” Derjavina says.

A number of Boyd Law alumni work for the Henderson City Attorney’s office including Nicholas Vaskov (‘02), Sally Galati (‘05), Kristina Gilmore (‘09), Brandon Kemble (‘07), Brian Reeve (‘06), John Cory (‘13), Ekaterina “Katie” Derjavina (‘15), Adam Osman (‘15), Matt Lay (‘08), and Stephan Rini (‘02).

Henderson City Attorney Nicholas Vaskov will always be grateful to the William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV for a career he never expected.

While earning a bachelor’s degree in biology from UNLV, he wanted to go to veterinary school. After working as a veterinary technician as an undergraduate, however, he had second thoughts and sought a new career path. His girlfriend (now wife) suggested that the nascent law school might be that path and signed him up for the LSAT. A few months later, he was a member of the second class at Boyd Law under way in the former Paradise Elementary School “For someone campus. The classes were small, and like me with no the dozen or so faculty members expectations or were friendly. understanding “For someone like me with no exof what I was pectations or understanding of what getting into, it I was getting into, it was the perfect was the perfect setting,” Vaskov says. “It was welsetting. It was coming and not the least bit intimiwelcoming and dating. I enjoyed it from Day 1.” not the least bit Judges, elected officials and phiintimidating. I lanthropists visited the first week to enjoyed it from espouse the school’s importance to Day 1.”

Nevada’s future and foretell the essential roles graduates would have.

NICHOLAS VASKOV “Those statements seemed fanciful HENDERSON CITY to me at the time,” Vaskov says. “I ATTORNEY was just hoping to survive the first semester—but they turned out to be prophetic.”

The numerous fellow alumni who work with Vaskov reflect that vision, he says. “Boyd Law graduates have conquered just about every peak in business, law, and government possible. If anything, the officials that spoke to our class that first week underestimated the impact Boyd graduates have had on Nevada.”

No two days are the same for Vaskov, Henderson’s city attorney since 2018, working to support the City Council’s priorities and a team of nine prosecutors and 12 civil practitioners at the intersection of law, public policy, and politics.

The ability to develop close working relationships with clients and understand their needs is essential for in-house counsel to anticipate issues and find solutions before they become major problems, he says.

“This collaborative service model makes practicing law in our office pretty cool,” Vaskov says.

Assistant City Attorney Sally Galati (’05)

Assistant City Attorney Ekaterina “Katie” Derjavina (’15)

City Attorney Nicholas Vaskov (’02)

When she was a student at the William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV, Sally Galati wielded a big red casebook when she, her husband, and their two young sons were on a Pacific Northwest road trip. To occupy her younger son, no more than 7 years old, she asked him to read the Miranda case aloud. He read it with exaggerated inflection, entertaining everyone in the car.

Symbolizing the school’s commitment to nontraditional students, Galati was 40 and had an advanced career as an electrical engineer when she began studying the law part-time in 2001. She had worked from engineer to vice president of distribution engineering in almost 16 years for the Nevada Power Co. (now NV Energy). When the company merged with Sierra Pacific Resources, she became familiar with corporate law and applied to the law school.

“I figured having the engineering background and getting a law degree, I could become a patent lawyer. By the time I graduated four years later, I really had more of an affinity toward corporate law. … The crazy thing after that is then I became a prosecutor—which was weird.”

After a stint as a deputy city attorney (criminal division) in Las Vegas, four years as a Henderson assistant city attorney and a couple of years in private practice, Galati has been back in Henderson’s civil division since 2019. She handles real estate, contract and land-use law.

Galati credits Boyd Law with bolstering her curiosity and empowering her to remain open for opportunities beyond her original goals.

“The Nevada and Las Vegas communities threw incredible resources into [opening] the law school, and I will be eternally grateful for all of their efforts to provide a law school where the community was lacking in legal representation,” she says.

Now she says she has an obligation to pay it forward and encourage potential law students. It’s an effort that includes persuading that precocious son, now a marketing specialist for a local engineering firm, to take the LSAT and apply to Boyd Law soon.

— Paul Szydelko

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SOCIETY OF ADVOCATES

SOCIETY OF ADVOCATES

TEAM COMPETITIONS

2022-2023

CRIMSON CUP Harvard Law School; Cambridge, Mass.

38TH ANNUAL PRINCE EVIDENCE COMPETITION Brooklyn, N.Y. > Terra Shepard > Courtney Sinagra > Sam Holt

MLK CIVIL RIGHTS COMPETITION Sacramento > Emily Grable > Jeanette Marquez > Alex Provan > John Sandoval

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ASYLUM & REFUGEE LAW NATIONAL MOOT COURT COMPETITION University of California, Davis

> Jeanette Marquez > Alexander Provan > Serena Ruedas > John Sandoval

NATIONAL MOOT COURT COMPETITION IN CHILD WELFARE ADOPTION LAW Columbus, Ohio

> Rachel Blum > Molly Stubblefield > Ryan Edwards > Sam Pope

> Kathryn Hodges > Eric Lundy

PHILIP C. JESSUP INTERNATIONAL LAW MOOT COURT COMPETITION Washington > Tyler Christiansen > Michael Pappas > Kelly Donahue > Daniel Weiss

SEIGENTHALER-SUTHERLAND CUP NATIONAL FIRST AMENDMENT MOOT COURT COMPETITION Washington

Central Islip, N.Y.

> Yashmeeta Sharma > Giacomo Silvestri

> Joe Morgan > Isabel Causey

NATIONAL TRIAL ADVOCACY COMPETITION Detroit

> Aika Dietz > Jory Hoffman (coach attorney}

> Alex Ballard > Chase Christensen > Della Lyle

TOURO LAW CENTER’S NATIONAL MOOT COURT COMPETITION IN LAW AND RELIGION

> Millie Mummery

NYU’S NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW COMPETITION New York > Monique Rodriguez > Jeanette Marquez 2023 | 11

EVENTS

ALUMNI

ALUMNUS CAPTURES LEGAL WRITING AWARD FROM LAW 360

Melding Journalism and Law

Boyd Law degree helps legal correspondent share important stories with viewers

BY PAUL SZYDELKO

Maria Thompson decided to pursue a law degree to better understand the judicial system and become a better journalist. With a degree from the William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV in hand, the former senior news producer for KSNV News 3 now hopes to pack as much legal experience as possible to combine her passion for journalism and the law as a legal correspondent.

When the News 3 team encountered challenges obtaining public records and critical pieces of information for an investigation on juvenile justice and child welfare in Nevada, she knew that getting a better grasp into how the legal process works would ease those burdens and help her team tell important stories.

One of her favorite classes was

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alternative dispute resolution in employment with adjunct professor Patrick N. Chapin. “The way he taught the course made everyone excited about mediation and arbitration, even if it wasn’t where they wanted to specialize,” says Thompspn, who kept her full-time job while being a part-time student.

A handful of Boyd Law professors even provided helpful guidance, context and even some on-air interviews for legal stories while she continued work in the newsroom.

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It’s amazing how Boyd School of Law has cultivated a strong network of professionals who understand the local legal landscape and want to use their skills to give back and empower the community.”

She also completed a virtual externship with NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, helping the scientists secure patents, respond to ethics questions, and research employment issues. “It was very cool getting a glimpse behind the firewall and learning about an evolving area of law,” she says. “Whenever I got off the phone with a NASA employee, they always ended the call with, ‘Thank you for contributing to the mission,’ and hearing that was pretty surreal.”

After passing the bar, Thompson will pursue a clerkship, a public interest position or a spot with a civil litigation firm.

“Southern Nevada is a really special and unique community, and there are so many ways you can make an impact here through the legal profession,” Thompson says.

“It’s amazing how Boyd School of Law has cultivated a strong network of professionals who understand the local legal landscape and want to use their skills to give back and empower the community.”

Alumnus Travis Studdard (’22) won a Law360 Legal Writing Award from the Burton Awards for his article “Riling Up As Recommendation: How Commission-Free Brokerages Recommend Active Investing to the Public, “becoming first student from the William S. Boyd School of Law to be so honored.

Studdard wrote the article in a directed research course under the guidance of Professor Benjamin Edwards. Studdard submitted it in the 2021 James E. Beckley National Competition sponsored by the Public Investors Advocate Bar Association (PIABA) and won first place.

After Studdard won the competition, Edwards recommended him for the Burton Awards.

“After he brought home that national win, it was an easy decision to nominate him to our legal writing faculty as the person we should put forward for a shot at a Burton award,” Edwards said. “Studdard worked incredibly hard on a complex topic that is still on the SEC’s (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission) rulemaking agenda.”

Professor Kathryn Stanchi was Studdard’s first-year legal writing professor in 2019 and was thrilled when she found out about his award.

“I remember Studdard as a hardworking, smart, and good-natured evening student,” she said. “I’m always amazed by evening students who work full time and then come to law school. I remember particularly that Studdard took feedback very well. This award is a confirmation that Boyd, and its writing faculty, are producing some of the best student legal writers in the nation.”

This prestigious recognition is granted in association with the Library of Congress, presented by lead sponsor Law360, and co-sponsored by the American Bar Association.

UPDATES ON FORMER BOYD LAW STUDENTS

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Since 1999, the Burton Awards have been praising excellence in the legal profession, including writing, reform, public service and interest, regulatory innovation, and lifetime achievements.

“The winners are truly exemplary, technically skilled, and effective writers,” founder and chair of the awards program William Burton said. “The authors have set a new and even higher standard of excellence.”

Only 25 writers were selected from nominations submitted by the nation’s top law schools. The committee responsible for the selection process included judges and law school professors from esteemed institutions such as Harvard Law School, Georgetown Law Center and UC Berkeley Law School.

“This great honor will be given to the authors of legal articles that demonstrate creativity, knowledge, and know-how,” the Burton website said.

“While the length and subject matter of the legal articles are not limited, the winners will display a true understanding and mastery of the law and their writing must be clear, cogent and concise.”

I’m always amazed by evening students who work full time and then come to law school.

I remember particularly that Studdard took feedback very well. This award is a confirmation that Boyd, and its writing faculty, are producing some of the best student legal writers in the nation.”

PROFESSOR KATHRYN STANCHI STUDDARD’S FIRSTYEAR LEGAL WRITING PROFESSOR

Blake Gross (’05) was appointed to serve as Ashland County District Attorney by Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers.

Nazo Demirdjian (’23) had his article, “A Mere Research Project About The Not Merely Inconsequential “Mere”” published in the Journal of Law. Gil Kahn (’16) was selected as a new Lawyer Representative for the United States District Court for the District of Nevada, by the Court’s Judges and the State Bar of Nevada Board of Governors.

Kyle Conder (’08) was appointed to the NCAA Division I Board of Directors Infractions Process Committee! Conder currently serves as the Director of Athletics for Cal State Bakersfield.

Jake Graff (’05) was nominated and then approved to serve as judge of the Santa Clara Justice Court in Utah.

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ALUMNI ALUMNI

2022-2023 MEET SILVIA VILLANUEVA INCOMING BOYD LAW ALUMNI ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT AND PARTNER WITH THE LAW OFFICE OF ADLER & VILLANUEVA, LLC IN CARSON CITY

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rowing up in east Las Vegas, Silvia Villanueva (’14) learned the importance of advocating for her own educational opportunities and speaking up for her family’s lack of access to quality legal guidance and business advice. She saw law school as an opportunity to learn the skills and gain access to not only speak on her behalf, but also on behalf of others in need.

Despite limited financial assistance, Villanueva self-financed her studies by working multiple jobs. She chose Boyd Law because it allowed her to live with friends and family and stay close to her support system. “I don’t think I would have been able to go to law school if I had to leave the state,” she says.

While a student at Boyd, Villanueva was involved with the financial law society, Organization of Women Law Students and La Voz. She also completed an externship in Carson City for the 2013 Legislative Session. Villanueva’s legisla-

tive externship allowed her to receive law school credits while simultaneously getting professional work experience, and it ultimately led to her first job out of law school.

Villanueva said making relationships was the biggest lesson she took away from law school.

“The academic part of law school is super important, but so are the relationships you build along the way,” she says. “It was something I heard all the time while in law school, and it holds true. Your classmates will one day be colleagues, judges, mediators, lawmakers, opposing counsel, partners, friends, and sounding boards.”

She urges prospective students to try new things and get outside their comfort zone in law school.

“Don’t be afraid to step outside your own expectations for yourself and expose yourself to ideas, resources, and experiences that don’t necessarily align with your ‘plan.’ That includes taking advantage of the resources available to you that may make you uncomfortable.”

The academic part of law school is super important, but so are the relationships you build along the way. It was something I heard all the time while in law school and it holds true.”

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BOYD LAW EVENTS

Class of 2023 graduates were awarded their degrees at Spring Commencement on May 12 at Artemus W. Ham Concert Hall

BOYD LAW EVENTS

The Rebels in the Outfield team at the 2023 Durand Slam was compromised of alumni from the Boyd School of Law.

Former Executive Chairman of the Board for Everi Holdings, Inc., Michael Rumbolz, gave the Robert D. Faiss Lecture on Gaming Law and Policy on April 21.

Alumni and community partners teed off at the Boyd Law Alumni Chapter Golf Tournament on September 29 at the Arroyo Golf Club.

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Justice Michael L. Douglas spoke to the cohort of the 2023 Justice Michael L. Douglas PreLaw Fellowship.

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New Arenas of Opportunity

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BY MATT JACOB

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or a quarter century, the William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV has prided itself on preparing students for careers in their chosen legal field — whatever that field may be.

However, for the longest time, Boyd students who dreamed of settling in Las Vegas and practicing law for a professional sports organization faced a major challenge: lack of opportunities.

Sure, Las Vegas has been home to a successful minor league baseball club since 1983 (initially christened the Stars, now known as the Aviators). And Las Vegas Motor Speedway in North Las Vegas has been hosting marquee motorsports events since 1996, while the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) has called Southern Nevada home for years.

Other than that, though, the professional sports employment options had been limited to a handful of here-and-gone minor league hockey, soccer, football, and basketball teams. Which meant Boyd graduates who desired to work in pro sports essentially had two choices: Take their law degrees to a different state, or pick a new career path in Nevada.

My, how times have changed — and quickly.

In less than a decade, Las Vegas has welcomed three major professional sports franchises (the NHL’s Golden Knights, the NFL’s Raiders, and the WNBA’s Aces); a handful of seemingly stable minor league teams (hockey, soccer, basketball, lacrosse); and multiple state-of-the-art venues (most notably, T-Mobile Arena and Allegiant Stadium).

And more are on the way. Major League Baseball’s Athletics are reportedly relocating from Oakland to a new baseball stadium slated for the south end of the Las Vegas Strip. Also, a planned $10 billion resort located about four miles south of Mandalay Bay is expected to break ground next year and will be anchored by a 20,000-seat arena.

The expected tenant for that arena: an NBA franchise.

In other words, professional sports jobs that used to be few and far between in Southern Nevada are now plentiful — including for lawyers. As a result, Boyd Law in recent years has seen a spike in students interested in pursuing careers in sports law (and doing so not far from campus).

So, what might such a career look like? Four Boyd students recently found out, courtesy of internships with three sports organizations. Those students share their experiences in the ensuing pages — as do two alumni who are currently putting their Boyd Law degrees to use in the local professional sports industry.

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KIANA PARKES

STEPHANIE ALLEN

> 3L/’24 J.D. CANDIDATE

> ’03 J.D., PARTNER, KAEMPFER CROWELL

iana Parkes was forthright when she walked into her internship interview with the Las Vegas Raiders earlier this year: She wasn’t exactly interested in a career in sports law.

“I was honest about the fact that I wanted to be an entertainment lawyer,” Parkes says. “The two people I interviewed with immediately put me at ease, telling me that working for a sports team was about so much more than actual sports.”

Parkes ended up landing the seven-week internship, and it didn’t take long for her to understand what her interviewers meant.

Assisting the Raiders’ four-person, in-house legal team, Parkes was charged with conducting legal research, drafting sponsorship agreements, and reviewing contracts.

Some of those contracts? They were for artists hired to perform at halftime of the Raiders’ home games at Allegiant Stadium.

In other words: Sports law, meet entertainment law.

“Working for the Raiders, I was exposed to so many areas of law,” says Parkes, who this year is adding alternative dispute resolution (ADR) to her primary law concentration of intellectual property. “I got to witness the overlap in sports law, IP law, and entertainment law. That’s when my interest in sports law grew.”

“Much like entertainment law, sports law is a compilation of different practice areas. It takes many different areas of law to successfully run a sports team, which of course is also a business.”

Parkes, who says she knew she wanted to be a lawyer at a young age, still has her sights set on a career practicing entertainment and intellectual property law — preferably in New York. The ultimate dream: start her own entertainment company.

Wherever the legal journey takes her, though, Parkes knows she will be drawing on her experiences during a brief-but-impactful internship with one of the NFL’s most historic franchises.

“Working for the Raiders allowed me to be a part of a team and an environment that was so lively and inviting,” Parkes says. “I was able to look at legal issues from a different lens and appreciate all the work that goes into running a legal team.

“This internship opened up more pathways for me and made me consider taking in sports clients in the future.”

wo years ago, Stephanie Allen wouldn’t have labeled herself a rabid fan of the wildly popular auto racing circuit known as Formula One. Now? You could argue that nobody is more excited than Allen for the inaugural Las Vegas Grand Prix, an F1 race that took over the Las Vegas Strip and surrounding resort corridor in mid-November.

“I don’t know yet where I’ll be watching the race, but there’s no doubt I will be watching,” Allen says. “I actually asked my sister not to get married the weekend of the race, if that says anything.”

The reason the William S. Boyd School of Law alumna is eagerly anticipating the event: She has “lived and breathed” the race details for more than a year.

Shortly after the Las Vegas Grand Prix was announced in March 2022, race officials retained Allen’s law firm, Kaempfer Crowell, to deal with all legal matters tied to the event’s logistics. And there have been many, as the race is being staged on a road course that has taken more than a year to construct — on and around one of the world’s mostbusiest streets.

Because she has spent nearly two decades dealing with land use, zoning, and government affairs cases for Kaempfer Crowell, Allen was the natural choice to help the Las Vegas Grand Prix maneuver around similar legal roadblocks.

“Along with my longtime colleague Chris Kaempfer, we’ve handled the project’s approvals needed from Clark County, including the necessary zoning and event approvals, among other legal needs for the client,” Allen says. “It has been and continues to be an experience of a lifetime.”

Prior to the Las Vegas Grand Prix, Allen’s sports-related legal experience had been limited to a longtime Kaempfer Crowell client, the Las Vegas Aviators (formerly Las Vegas 51s) baseball club. As such, she says she doesn’t consider herself a sports lawyer.

That said, Allen’s involvement with the Formula 1 race has given her a front-row seat to Las Vegas’ great professional sports boom. And she’s excited for what the future holds, not only for her law firm but also young professionals — including lawyers — who want to work in the sports industry.

“We are a sports town now,” Allen says. “The influence of sports in the Las Vegas Valley has added diversity, jobs, opportunities, and family friendly leisure that simply didn’t exist a few years ago.

“My message to Boyd Law students who are interested in sports law is to make real, lasting connections and relationships with your colleagues and acquaintances. As the years pass, those colleagues and acquaintances are where cases will originate.”

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Working for the Raiders, I was exposed to so many areas of law. I got to witness the overlap in sports law, IP law, and entertainment law. That’s when my interest in sports law grew.”

We are a sports town now. The influence of sports in the Las Vegas Valley has added diversity, jobs, opportunities, and family friendly leisure that simply didn’t exist a few years ago.”

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AMY ZHAO > 2L/’25 J.D. CANDIDATE

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t’s not uncommon for law students to hold off on choosing a definitive career path until after completing their juris doctor. Amy Zhao certainly is someone who falls into that wait-and-see category.

That said, a career in sports law is absolutely on the table for Zhao. Which is a bit strange, seeing that she didn’t grow up a sports fan. Nor did she grow up wanting to be a lawyer.

In fact, Zhao didn’t really consider law school until several years into a fulfilling marketing career.

“I knew at a young age that I wanted to help people solve problems,” Zhao says. “That initially led me to marketing, which I thoroughly enjoyed. But when I reached a point where I was ready for something new, I decided to go to law school with the idea of helping companies bridge the gap between their marketing and legal teams.”

The University of Michigan graduate and outdoor enthusiast chose Boyd Law in part because it was located in a dynamic city surrounded by an array of hiking and rockclimbing opportunities. Shortly after she arrived, she realized that Southern Nevada offered something else: a lot of opportunities in sports and entertainment law.

Fast forward to this past summer, when Zhao — who began developing an interest in sports during her time at Michigan — spent nearly two months interning with the Las Vegas Raiders’ legal department.

The internship overlapped with that of fellow Boyd student Kiana Parkes, with both working roughly 30 hours per week. Like Parkes, Zhao assisted with legal research, drafting and reviewing contracts, and reviewing legal requests from other business units. Most of Zhao’s projects fell in the intellectual property space, which — like Parkes — is her area of concentration at Boyd.

As she reaches the midpoint of law school, Zhao confirms that she still hasn’t solidified her career plans. However, if she does pursue sports law, she definitely wouldn’t mind returning to Raiders headquarters.

“Interning with the Raiders convinced me that I would thoroughly enjoy being an in-house lawyer at a large company,” Zhao says. “And while I don’t really believe in the concept of dream jobs, if I did end up working for the Raiders, I think it would feel like a dream job.”

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JUSTIN CARLEY > ’06 J.D., SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT AND GENERAL COUNSEL, LAS VEGAS RAIDERS

L I knew at a young age that I wanted to help people solve problems. That initially led me to marketing, which I thoroughly enjoyed. But when I reached a point where I was ready for something new, I decided to go to law school with the idea of helping companies bridge the gap between their marketing and legal teams.”

ike many of today’s students at the Boyd School of Law, Justin Carley was a big sports fan when he attended the school in the mid-2000s.

Unlike many of today’s Boyd students, though, Carley didn’t aspire to practice law in the professional sports industry in Las Vegas. Because there really wasn’t much of an industry at the time.

In fact, it wasn’t until Carley was more than a decade into his professional career that Las Vegas’ first major professional sports franchise — the NHL’s Vegas Golden Knights — began play.

So during his 13-year tenure with the Las Vegas-based law firm of Snell & Wilmer, Carley honed his legal skills litigating in a variety of settings and taking on clients from a variety of industries. Then, as the professional sports scene started to percolate in Southern Nevada, Carley finally got the chance to dabble in sports law.

First, he did some work for Snell & Wilmer clients who were lenders involved in the financing of Allegiant Stadium. Then he took a job as in-house counsel for The Howard Hughes Corporation, a real estate development and management firm that also owns the Las Vegas Aviators’ Triple-A baseball club and the team’s home, Las Vegas Ballpark, which opened in 2019.

Carley was with The Hughes Corp. in spring 2022 when he was contacted by colleague and fellow Boyd alum Sandra Douglass Morgan, who was contemplating accepting an offer to become president of the Las Vegas Raiders.

The two stayed in touch throughout her interview process, and shortly after Morgan accepted the post in July, a position opened up within the organization: senior vice president and general counsel. Morgan encouraged Carley to apply, he did, and was hired in October 2022.

“It’s been the greatest experience and best part of my

legal career,” says Carley, who oversees the Raiders’ legal department and advises each of the organization’s business units. “I prioritize the owner’s, president’s, and general manager’s initiatives first, but am involved in just about every aspect of the business.”

While Carley had to take a near two-decade-long detour to reach the C-suite of a legendary NFL franchise, he insists that every stop along the way — and every legal matter he was charged with handling — was vital in getting him to this point.

His advice to current Boyd students, whether they desire a career in sports law or another legal field: “Work hard, act with integrity, be flexible and open to change, nurture your relationships — not because of any opportunity they might afford, but because it’s the right thing to do — and always give back.”

Work hard, act with integrity, be flexible and open to change, nurture your relationships — not because of any opportunity they might afford, but because it’s the right thing to do — and always give back.”

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TJ MILK

D’AHNA SCOTT

> 3L/’24 J.D. CANDIDATE

> 3L/’24 J.D. CANDIDATE

ike the vast majority of college football players, TJ Milk had to hang up his cleats following his fouryear run with the University of Jamestown football team in North Dakota.

Milk did not, however, have to give up on a professional sports career.

A lifelong Las Vegas resident, Milk is laser focused on parlaying his forthcoming law degree from the William S. Boyd School of Law into a government relations or compliance position with a local pro sports team. It’s a plan he began to put into action during his sophomore year at Jamestown after securing an internship with the U.S. Senate.

“It was an invaluable experience, one that introduced me to a host of accomplished government lawyers and lobbyists,” Milk says. “That’s when I recognized the profound influence a legal professional could exert — not just on individual cases, but on the broader community.

“I [also] witnessed firsthand the significant impact of legal frameworks on all athletes. This observation fortified my desire to immerse myself in law and sports.”

Milk already has gotten a taste of his desired vocation thanks to a past externship with UNLV’s Government and Community Relations office and current internship with the Las Vegas-based UFC. Among his responsibilities in the latter role: assist the UFC’s government relations department with day-to-day and long-term projects; conduct research on political and legislative issues; and help plan events to host elected officials and candidates.

“Interning with the UFC presents a unique chance to apply and further hone the skills I’ve acquired at Boyd and during my congressional internship,” Milk says. “More than just a renowned company, the UFC resonates with my personal passions. For instance, its global outreach always fascinated me, especially in the realm of domestic and international government relations.”

As with all Boyd Law students, Milk is eager to finish his studies, take and pass the State Bar, join the legal workforce, and begin making his mark in his hometown.

“Las Vegas has rapidly evolved into a major hub for the sports industry, and Boyd has been instrumental in this transformation,” Milk says. “The school not only provides an academic foundation but also fosters deep connections within the burgeoning sports sector here.

“Being able to attend my hometown law school has presented the perfect opportunity to have a positive impact in my community while being a part of the growth of the sports and entertainment industry in Southern Nevada.”

ike most sports fans who grew up in Las Vegas, D’Ahna Scott has had February 11, 2024, circled on her calendar for quite some time. The reason: It’s the day that Las Vegas will host the Super Bowl for the first time.

However, Scott’s interest in the monumental event is about more than civic pride. It’s also about more than being raised in a family that has a passion for sports (including a father who played college football).

No, Scott is mostly looking forward to the second Sunday in February because she’s played a small role in the behind-the-scenes preparations for Super Bowl 58 at Allegiant Stadium.

Scott, who is pursuing a J.D. with concentrations in both intellectual property and business and commercial law, joined the Las Vegas Super Bowl Host Committee earlier this year as a community affairs and legal intern.

Her duties include helping to generate excitement for the game through multiple NFL initiatives (including the NFL Business Connect Program), as well as ensuring that all Super Bowl-related programs legally comply with intellectual property laws, gaming laws, and various NFL regulations.

“This experience has provided me with a unique opportunity to interact with professionals from diverse fields within the sports industry, such as graphic design, marketing, communications, finance, and many others,” says Scott, who arrived at Boyd after graduating with a criminal justice, pre-law degree from the University of Nevada-Reno. “The collaborative environment has enabled me to engage with individuals who bring their expertise to various facets of the sports world.”

Initially, Scott’s internship was slated to last the duration of the summer. However, much to her delight, she was asked to stay on through Super Sunday.

Needless to say, Scott — who is the current president of Boyd Law’s Sports and Entertainment Law Association — is all-in on a sports-centric legal career.

“My time with the Super Bowl Host Committee has been incredibly enlightening and enriching, and has solidified my desire to pursue a career in sports law,” she says.

“My long-term aspiration is to secure a position within the sports sector that aligns well with my skills and interests.

And without a doubt, my dream job is to be in-house counsel for the NFL or one of its teams.”

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Being able to attend my hometown law school has presented the perfect opportunity to have a positive impact in my community while being a part of the growth of the sports and entertainment industry in Southern Nevada.”

My long-term aspiration is to secure a position within the sports sector that aligns well with my skills and interests.

And without a doubt, my dream job is to be in-house counsel for the NFL or one of its teams.”

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TRANSFORMING NEVADA AND BEYOND FOR 25 YEARS

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n August 1998, the William S. Boyd School of Law opened after years of discussions, advocacy and feasibility studies. Our silver anniversary has allowed us to look back and celebrate the people who created Boyd Law and commemorate the history of our school.

Through the efforts of Assemblyman Morse Arberry, Jr., the Nevada Legislature approved $500,000 to support the planning of a law school in June 1995. President Carol Harter used those funds to put together a planning committee and hire consultants to develop a plan for the law school.

Community support from Honorable Philip M. Pro (Ret.), Barbara Buckley, Frances Forsman, Jim Rogers, the Thomas and Mack families, and Mike and Sonja Saltman, among others, showed the legislature that the community backed this law school and helped secure the required funding.

A transformational gift from William S. Boyd and the Boyd family, which has contributed $31 million to date to the law school, solidified the founding efforts. In his oral history, Bill Boyd shared that he was very proud to be involved in founding Nevada’s law school.

The founding administration of the school included trailblazers such as Dean Dick Morgan, Associate Dean Christine Smith, Professor and Library Director Rick Brown, Director of Admissions Frank Durand and Dianne Fouret, who helped shape Boyd Law from its early days.

When the law school opened, classes were taught at Paradise Elementary School, across the street from UNLV. Students from the inaugural class will tell you about the jungle-gym study breaks, the juniorsized bathrooms and the overall warmth and feeling of community fostered by the new school.

The law school eventually moved to the former library on the main campus. The building was dedicated on September 27, 2002, with the Honorable Anthony M. Kennedy, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, serving as the keynote speaker.

Since those early years, Boyd School of Law — along with its legal writing, dispute resolution, and part-time programs — has become a nationallyranked law school. Faculty, staff, students, and alumni have all contributed to making Boyd Law the top-50 public law school it is today.

The school’s 2,800-plus alumni grace every corner of the state and beyond. From leadership roles in both houses of the Nevada State Legislature, to the judiciary, to private, government and nonprofit practice, Boyd alumni are making Nevada and beyond better places.

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THE EARLY YEARS

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Realizing Possibilities LEAP partnership with Med School offers Boyd students new career paths

BY PAT MCDONNELL

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I never thought I could become the chief compliance officer one day.

Doing that externship made me realize that’s a possibility.

Pete (Navarro) demystified how to get there.”

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In his dreams, Jorge “Coco” Padilla had always wanted to be an immigration lawyer.

His father’s family was from Peru and, although he was born and raised in Las Vegas, helping people find greater opportunity in their journey to U.S. citizenship appealed to the William S. Boyd School of Law student.

In January 2022, he became the inaugural extern in the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine’s Learn, Experience and Progress (LEAP) partnership program with Boyd, Lee Business School and the School of Public Health. By April of last year, after working four months with Peter Navarro, the medical school’s chief compliance officer, Padilla was fascinated by a new prospective career path — healthcare compliance.

“I never thought I could become the chief compliance officer one day,” said Padilla, who earned his Juris Doctorate at Boyd in 2022 and recently celebrated passing the Nevada bar. “Doing that externship made me realize that’s a possibility. Pete demystified how to get there.”

This April, the State Bar of Nevada Board of Governors approved $13,389 in grant funding to support LEAP internships, furthering the partnership and supporting an academic healthcare compliance program.

“We can utilize this group for (UNLV’s) nursing school or dental school and help them with their policies. They’ll understand regulations and how to put that into practice,” said Elaine Aromin, who created the program in January 2022.

Aromin said LEAP broadens student understanding.

Students consider, she says, “If there is any violation in policy, what happens? It’s not just a linear way of thinking. It’s more in-depth thinking.”

Padilla, for example, navigated legal documents while researching family law.

“It’s helped with my writing as a litigator,” he said.

The 25-year-old is a judicial law clerk for a magistrate judge of the U.S. District Court for Nevada.

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REALIZING POSSIBILITIES

KYLE-MATHEW TAYLOR (’24) > Externed at: U.S. Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Office of Environmental Justice

EMILY ESPINOSA (’24)

GIAC0MO SILVESTRI (’24)

KELSEY LAMPH (’23)

> Externed at: Department of Justice - Aviation, Space, and Admiralty Section in Washington, D.C. in Spring 2023

> Externed at: United States District Court for the District of Nevada for Judge Brenda Weksler (Summer and Fall 2022) and Judges Andrew Gordon and Jennifer Dorsey (Spring 2023)

> Externed at: the Nevada State Public Defenders Office in Summer 2023

“This externship solidified my desire to pursue a career in the public interest sector.

Serving in the federal government is fastpaced, challenging, and everything I was looking for when pursuing a legal career.

This externship gave me an opportunity to experience the environment of a federal government career in Washington, D.C., which alone made me grow as a person, student, and lawyer. The benefit of having gotten out of my comfort zone has changed my career-trajectory.”

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“My externship experiences taught me to how to write in a clear, understandable manner. Each of the judges and clerks I worked with stressed the importance of simple language and structure. If more people can comprehend what’s being written in an order, then the court is doing its job.”

“I got to learn a lot about how the criminal justice system works in our small rural counties. This was especially interesting since small town relationships play into the system more than you would expect. My mentor and I worked really hard to get some of our clients out of custody that were being detained in violation of Valdez-Jimenez.

I am clerking after graduation for a judge with a criminal docket. I am excited to view it from the perspective of a judge starting in the fall of 2024.”

“I became even more aware of how underserved communities can benefit from our legal services and I will carry that perspective into my career as an aspiring environmental attorney. I built a mentor relationship with my supervising attorney that is invaluable. Overall, I highly recommend an externship with USDOJ because you learn an incredible amount, you build invaluable relationships with attorneys doing important work on behalf of the American public, and your commitment to federal-public service will be attractive to future employers, especially government employers.”

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FACULTY FOCUS

FACULTY FOCUS

AT THE INTERSECTION OF LAW AND RELIGION

Protecting Employees Professor Ann McGinley leverages employment law background in recent scholarship activities Ann C. McGinley, co-director of the UNLV Workplace Law Program and William S. Boyd Professor of Law, has three scholarship initiatives in the works, beginning with a new casebook.

Co-authored by Laura Rothstein and D’Andra Millsap Shu, the upcoming seventh edition of Disability Law: Cases, Materials, Problems is intended to provide a comprehensive overview of the major laws relating to discrimination against individuals with disabilities.

“Disability law has gotten more attention lately,” McGinley says. “Students are becoming more interested in studying disability law because it affects many of them personally. Most interesting to me are the changes since the last edition because Covid has had

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many effects on the law.”

McGinley has recently completed Religious Accommodations in the Dobbs Era for a symposium to be published this year about how the 2022 Supreme Court decision on abortion has affected the workplace.

Her research deals with how the anti-discrimination rights — including an employee’s right to religious accommodations — in Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act protect employees’ anti-abortion speech at work and their refusal to do portions of their jobs that they consider objectionable.

She cites, for example, recent cases at CVS’s Minute Clinics and Southwest Airlines. At CVS, nurse practitioners have been fired for refusing to counsel patients about contraceptives that are contrary to the employees’ religious beliefs, while a flight attendant at Southwest was fired for harassing another employee for her pro-abor-

tion political activity.

Professor McGinley’s research offers insights into the difficult balance that employers and courts must achieve to protect employers’ and their customers’ interests while respecting employees’ rights.

Her third project is entitled Intersectionality on The Ground, The “Neutral Norm” and Remedying The Gap In Success of Intersectional Claims.

This multi-year project analyzes how the law creates barriers to protection against employment discrimination for the most vulnerable individuals who belong to two or more protected classes, and/or whose disfavored working identities are related to protected traits. She to suggest changes to how Title VII is interpreted as well as amendments to the statute that would create greater protection for workers who currently suffer from intersectional discrimination.

Professor Leslie C. Griffin, William S. Boyd Professor of Law, recently published the first edition of a Learning Constitutional Law casebook with co-author Marci A. Hamilton.

“It is really fun to look through the casebook, and students really liked the draft we used during the fall,” Griffin said of the writing process.

While the challenge of writing a first-edition case book is one of Professor Griffin’s latest projects, this work is not new for her. Last year, she published the fifth edi- published an opinion on the Baltion of Law and Religion: Cases and timore Report, a very timely piece Materials. relating to the attorney general’s “It is interesting to see how report on child sexual abuse in the these topics have evolved over the Archdiocese of Baltimore. years, and now law “As a religion and religion are somescholar,” she said, “I thing everybody talks learned to see both the about all of the time,” good and bad parts of she said. religion. I think the Her scholarship on It is interesting law needs to do this this topic led to an to see how too.” article about Cathothese topics Working with lic justices published have evolved CHILD USA — which in 2022 after Justice over the years, she describes as “real Amy Coney Barrett and now law people working in took the bench of the and religion the courts to protect U.S. Supreme Court. are something children” — with her How Did Those Sixteen everybody talks co-author Hamilton, Justices Vote About Reabout all of the Griffin said, “It’s a ligion? identifies the time.” negative story to tell, Catholic Justices who but I feel like peoLESLIE C. GRIFFIN have served on the ple need to see what BOYD LAW PROFESSOR U.S. Supreme Court, the history of abuse starting with Chief was.”

Justice Taney and She also wants peoending with Coney Barrett. ple to know what happened so soGriffin notes that seven of the ciety can prevent it from happenhigh court’s current justices were ing again. raised Catholic. And in her femiProfessor Griffin’s current projnist rewriting of another court’s ect analyzes the Roman Catholic published opinion, Means v. Unit- clergy sexual abuse cases in the ed States Conference of Catholic United States. This piece looks Bishops, she explains why tort law explicitly at Massachusetts, — not religion — should govern Vermont, New Hampshire, and religious hospitals.

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HIP-HOP AND THE LAW Frank Rudy Cooper, William S. Boyd professor and director of the Program on Race, Gender & Policing, recently co-authored three books in his fields of expertise.

In addition to Gender and Law: Theory, Doctrine, Commentary, Ninth Edition and Dis/ability in Media, Law and History, Cooper co-edited a third book with another member of his writing group.

In his large writing group, Professor Cooper was inspired by a recent article crafted by Wake Forest’s Gregory Parks referencing a Kendrick Lamar song. “This could be a whole book,” he said.

Together they landed a leading publisher. Cooper and Parks brought together an exciting group of authors, who used the songs as jumping-off points to talk about important issues, including policing and protest movements.

A collection of powerful writing, Fight the Power: Law and Policy through HipHop Songs features entries by dynamic authors like Paul Butler and Catherine Smith. The latter crafted a piece with her daughter on sexism and the intersection of lesbian, Black, and Latin identity.

“When I look at the book we edited,” Cooper said, “I think about the moments when I had interesting conversations with the individual authors and helped shape the book.” And with its crossover success, perhaps the book’s themes will continue to be prescriptive policy statements studied in Boyd Law’s Program on Race, Gender & Policing.

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FACULTY FOCUS: NEW FACES

JENNIFER CARLETON

COURTNEY CROSS

Jennifer Carleton has unique industry expertise in payments, internet, sports, and Indian gaming, as well as insight into the unique issues that arise when technology and regulation intersect. She serves as the first Chief Legal Officer for Sightline Payments and during last academic year, she served as the Distinguished Fellow in the Indian Nations Gaming and Governance Program (INGG) at Boyd Law School.

Before Sightline, Professor Carleton was in-house counsel for an Indian casino for a decade and then spent 14 years in private practice as an adviser to some of the premier public and private gaming and investment companies in the world. She has taught advanced federal Indian gaming at the University of Wisconsin Law School and Boyd Law. She is a former member of the Executive Committee of the Gaming Law Section of the State Bar of Nevada, a former trustee of the International Association of Gaming Advisors, was previously the chair of the Indian Gaming Section of the State Bar of Wisconsin, and has published numerous articles on investment and Indian gaming regulatory compliance. Professor Carleton was recently announced as a finalist for the 2022 Global Gaming Awards American Executive of the Year.

Professor Courtney Cross joined the faculty at the William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV in Fall 2023.

Professor Cross will design and teach a new law clinic focused on providing legal services to survivors of intimate partner violence, with an emphasis on advocating for criminalized survivors, slated to begin in spring 2024.

Professor Cross’ research focuses on the intersectionality of domestic violence, criminal law, poverty, and public health. Her scholarship has appeared in leading law reviews, including the UC Davis Law Review, the Washington & Lee Law Review, and the Utah Law Review. Prior to Boyd Law, Professor Cross was an associate professor of Clinical Legal Instruction and the director of the Domestic Violence Law Clinic at the University of Alabama School of Law. She has taught in the Civil Litigation Clinic at the University of Denver and was a clinical teaching fellow in the Domestic Violence Clinic at Georgetown University.

Prior to joining academia, Professor Cross served as an Equal Justice Works/AmeriCorps Fellow and staff attorney at a women’s reentry nonprofit in Washington where she represented formerly incarcerated women in domestic violence and family court proceedings. She also represented incarcerated women in parole revocation hearings.

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FACULTY FOCUS: NEW FACES

DANIELLE FINN

> Director of the Indian Nations Gaming and Governance (INGG) Program and Assistant Professor-inResidence Professor Danielle Ta’Sheena Finn is a citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. She is Hunkpapa Lakota, Inhanktowan Dakota, Assiniboine, and Metis. Before coming to Boyd, Professor Finn served as a district court judge for the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe.

Previously, Finn was the Native American Affairs Advisor for the Office of the Governor of the state of Minnesota and the External Affairs Director for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.

As the Indigenous Studies Director at Cankdeska Cikana Community College, she taught courses such as Introduction to Native American and Indigenous Studies, Tribal Governance, Tribal Administration, Native Americans in the Cinema, and Federal Indian Law and Policy, among others.

At Sinte Gleska University, Finn has taught various classes, including Federal Indian Law, Native American Property Rights, Business Law, Criminal Law, Criminal Prosecution and Defense, Sicangu Oyate Bar Association Topics and Tribal Court Practice Methods, and Civil and Criminal Jurisdiction in Indian Country.

NACHMAN GUTOWSKI

> Director of the Academic Success Program and Assistant Professor-inResidence Prior to joining Boyd, Professor Nachman Gutowski served as Director of Accreditation and Associate Professor of Academic Success and Bar Preparation at the Benjamin L. Crump College of Law at St. Thomas University in Miami.

Before entering academia, he spent eight years in the legal education focused, corporate, national bar review industry. Gutowski has successful passed multiple bar exams and has scored high enough on the Uniform Bar Exam to meet the required score for more than three dozen jurisdictions. As a recognized bar exam substantive and skills expert, his scholarship focuses on academic success in law school, discrimination related to the bar exam, and licensure requirements for legal educational institutions.

He currently serves on the Association of American Law Schools Section on Academic Support as a member of the Board of Directors, as well as a member of the Bar Advocacy Committee for the Association of Academic Success Educators. He is also a member of the American Bar Association Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar.

JIM RICH

> Research Librarian and Assistant Professor Professor James Rich (JD ’18) has rejoined Boyd School of Law as a research librarian and assistant professor of law after serving as a research librarian at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles this past academic year.

Rich holds a master’s degree in library and information science from the University of Missouri. From 2015-18, he was a student at the Boyd School of Law, graduating cum laude with dual concentrations in Workplace Law and Dispute Resolution.

For five academic terms during law school, Rich worked as a library research assistant.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts cum laude from Villanova University in Pennsylvania. From 1993-2005, Rich served as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps and Marine Corps Reserve and from 2005-15 as a public affairs officer with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. He is a member of the American Library Association and the American Association of Law Libraries.

NANTIYA RUAN > Professor of Law

Professor Nantiya Ruan joined Boyd Law in the fall of 2023. She brings her considerable strengths in teaching legal writing to Boyd’s topranked Lawyering Process program.

She will also teach courses related to her other areas of expertise in workplace law and homeless advocacy.

Professor Ruan’s research and scholarship explore low-wage work, collective action, poverty and homelessness, and social justice teaching.

Her scholarship has appeared or will appear in, among other publications, the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy, the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, the Brooklyn Law Review, the ABA Journal of Labor & Employment Law, the Clinical Law Review, the Villanova Law Review, the Vanderbilt Law Review, and the Marquette Law Review.

Ruan graduated from the University of Denver with dual J.D. & M.S.W. degrees and clerked in the U.S. District Court in New York.

She has represented plaintiffs in discrimination, pay equity, and wage and hour class actions. She is a dedicated advocate for workers and indigent clients. The legal writing community recently awarded her the Terri LeClercq Courage Award (LWI) and the Inaugural Diversity Award (ALWD).

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FACULTY FOCUS

OTHER FACULTY APPOINTMENTS & ELECTIONS > In late 2022, Professor Kathyrn M. Stanchi was elected as a member of the American Law Institute (ALI). Professor Stanchi joined 11 other Boyd Law faculty elected to the ALI: Christopher L. Blakesley (Emeritus), Ruben J. Garcia, Leslie C. Griffin, Leah Chan Grinvald, Francine J. Lipman, Thomas O. Main, Nancy B. Rapoport, Keith A. Rowley, Jeffrey W. Stempel, Marketa Trimble and John Valery White. > Professor Benjamin Edwards was elected to a three-year term as a director for the Public Advocate Bar Association, an international bar association focused on investor protection. > In July 2023, Keith Rowley was appointed to the Uniform Law Commission’s Drafting Committee for the Virtual Currency Customer Protection Act. > David Orentlicher was appointed by the Uniform Law Commission as the ViceChair of its Study Committee. The committee will examine the question whether people born via assisted reproduction should be able to learn the identity of an egg or sperm donor whose donation led to their birth. > Professor Dawn Nielsen was appointed to a three-year term as a committee member for the State Bar of Nevada Functional Equivalency Committee. The committee investigates and holds hearings on bar applicants who graduate from non-ABA accredited law schools.

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IMMIGRANT JUSTICE CORPS

NATIONAL APPOINTMENT Addie C. Rolnick, the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians Professor of Law at the William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV, has been appointed to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s (NASEM) Committee on Law and Justice (CLAJ). Professor Rolnick also serves as the Faculty Director of the Indian Nations Gaming & Governance Program, as well as the Associate Director of the Program on Race, Gender & Policing.

“We are incredibly proud of Professor Rolnick’s appointment to NASEM’s Committee on Law and Justice,” said Leah Chan Grinvald, Dean and Richard J. Morgan Professor of Law at Boyd Law. “Her appointment — one of the only law professors to be appointed to this committee — is a testament to her nationally-recognized work in crim- from Oberlin College, UCLA School inal justice reform.” of Law, and UCLA. She has been a The CLAJ works to influence pol- member of the faculty at Boyd Law icy, set a national research agenda to since 2011, after serving as the inauhelp reduce crime, gural Critical Race and use the results Studies Law Fellow of its research to at the UCLA School amend laws and of Law. Before that, legal actions. The It will be interesting to dig she represented group focuses its in. I look forward to working tribal governments work on three areas with the other board as a lawyer and including youth and members to synthesize lobbyist in Washthe justice system, contributions from across ington. Professor the workings of the the scientific disciplines Rolnick was previcriminal justice sysand identify areas where ously a member of tem, and crime and further research is needed, the National Acadvictimization. particularly those involving emy of Sciences’ “I’m excited to Indigenous peoples.”

Ad Hoc Committee be a part of a naon Reducing Racial tional conversation Disparities in the on how research can affect law,” Criminal Justice System.

Rolnick said. “It will be interesting Rolnick specializes in Indigenous to dig in. I look forward to work- rights, juvenile and criminal law, ing with the other board members and racial justice. She has written to synthesize contributions from about Native people’s encounters across the scientific disciplines and with tribal, federal, and state justice identify areas where further re- systems; equal protection-based atsearch is needed, particularly those tacks on indigenous rights; formal involving Indigenous peoples.” and informal policing; and indigProfessor Rolnick has degrees enous justice systems.

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THREE JUSTICE FELLOWSHIPS Three alumni from the William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV have been selected to receive 2023 Immigrant Justice Corps (IJC) Justice Fellowships. This marks the first-time multiple Boyd Law alumni have been selected for the same incoming fellowship class.

Cristian Gonzalez Perez (’21), Chapman Noam (’22) and Priscila Venzor (’23) will serve two-year fellowships where they will become experts in immigration law and assist in a broad range of legal matters including asylum applications, securing special relief for juveniles and deportation defense.

“We are overjoyed that our alumni are continuing their journeys of becoming strong and committed immigration advocates,” said Dean and Richard J. Morgan Professor of Law Leah Chan Grinvald. “They will all be invaluable additions to the fellowship cohort and provide high quality assistance to the many clients they will be serving over the next two years and beyond.”

Joyce Mack Professor of Law and Director of the UNLV Immigration Clinic, Michael Kagan, said the multiple fellowship placements acknowledge the high caliber of students at

Boyd School of Law. “IJC is quite competitive and the applicant pool is incredibly impressive,” he said. “This is a testament to our students at Boyd School of Law that three of them were accepted into this cohort.”

According to their website, IJC pairs each fellow with non-profit legal services providers and communitybased organizations. All three Boyd School of Law alumni will work at the UNLV Immigration Clinic’s Community Advocacy Office during their fellowships.

Kagan noted that all three of the IJC recipients have previously worked at the UNLV Immigration Clinic in various capacities, and he is excited to have them return to the clinic.

“It’s fantastic that not only are students are able to be a part of IJC but that we will be able to keep them here in Las Vegas and that they have the opportunity to serve this community.”

Before starting the fellowship, Gonzalez Perez was working as a Judicial Law Clerk at the Eighth Judicial Court of Clark County, Nevada. He said he is excited to pick up on his Immigration Clinic journey where he left off.

“When I was in the clinic last, I was

a student attorney and I was limited in the things I could do. But now, I can pick up where I left and continue to improve on the things I was working on as a student.”

Venzor, who most recently served as president of the Immigration Rights Coalition at Boyd Law School, said she intends to continue down the path toward becoming an immigration attorney after the fellowship ends.

“I hope this is the beginning of my career as an immigration attorney and representing the rights of vulnerable populations in our community,” she said. “Wherever I go beyond this fellowship, I hope to focus on immigration issues and ensure immigrant rights are always being heard, valued and prioritized.”

Noam was a Law Clerk at the Nevada Supreme Court and is glad to continue his immigration law journey with the Immigration Clinic.

“It’s such a huge honor,” he said.

“The work the clinic does is so important and to be able to be a part of that is incredibly humbling.”

Gonzalez Perez, Noam and Venzor will began their fellowships with the UNLV Immigration Clinic in September.

Above, from left: Priscila Venzor, Chapman Noam and Cristian Gonzalez Perez.

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SCHOLARSHIP

STUDENT BAR ASSOCIATION

2022-2023 BOARD OF GOVERNORS START SBA ENDOWMENT The 2022-2023 Student Bar Association (SBA) Board of Governors worked together on one goal all year long: Create an SBA Endowment.

According to the 2022-2023 SBA President, Pranava Moody, the group decided early on that they would raise enough funds throughout the year to start an endowment for future Boyd Law Students.

“We had seen many of our classmates struggle financially during the COVID-19 pandemic and we wanted to make a positive change in the financial help offered at Boyd to its students,” she said. “We were hoping to plant a seed that others could continue to nurture and that would keep giving back.”

Although at times it seemed like the goal was so far away, Moody said the team never stopped moving toward the goal.

“When our final numbers came in and it sank in that we had achieved what we set out to do, it seemed surreal,” said Moody. “It was a monumental task that in the end was accomplished on the shoulders of many.”

“Thank you for the support we got throughout the year, and thank you to our community to helping us create the SBA Student Endowment.”

Members of the community will be able to contribute to the Endowment for years to come.

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I was fortunate to have exceptional mentors who inspired and guided me to pursue a legal education in order to become an attorney.”

LAS VEGAN AWARDED TRIAL ADVOCACY SCHOLARSHIP Third-year law student, Andrea Killebrew, was honored with the Eglet Adams Trial Advocacy Scholarship, a one-year, full tuition scholarship. The scholarship is awarded to a student who has demonstrated a commitment to trial advocacy, is in good academic standing, and have successfully completed Evidence.

“Being awarded a scholarship during my final year of law school has alleviated the financial burden and allowed me to focus on my studies, while also building the skills and relationships necessary to succeed after graduation,” Killebrew said.

Additionally, the partners of Eglet Adams extended an optional paid internship opportunity to Killebrew.

The internship has afforded her the chance to shadow and learn from civil litigators in Nevada.

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Born and raised in Las Vegas, Killebrew returned home following her graduation from San Diego State University in 2017. Shortly after, she began working at a law firm that represented numerous victims affected by the Las Vegas Route 91 shooting. Through advocating for these unjustly harmed clients, Killebrew learned that she had a passion for making a broader impact in people’s lives.

“I was fortunate to have exceptional mentors who inspired and guided me to pursue a legal education in order to become an attorney,” she said.

Killebrew chose to attend Boyd because of the love she has for her hometown and her plan to practice law in Nevada. “The legal community in Nevada is known to be very

connected and close-knit. The opportunity to network, intern, and clerk for local lawyers and judges while in school is invaluable. It not only allows one to understand the law and procedure of this state, but also positions one for success in securing a job after graduation and the bar exam.”

While a student at Boyd School of Law, Killebrew externed under former Senior Justice of the Nevada Supreme Court, Abbi Silver, after her first year of law school. She is also a member of the Society of Advocates Mock Trial team and has had the privilege of representing Boyd in various competitions around the country. At the Hofstra National Medical-Legal Competition in New York in October 2023, Killebrew won Overall Best Advocate: Runner-Up.

To donate to the endowment, go to engage.unlv.edu/sba or scan this

The SBA had a retreat in September 2022 in Zion National Park in southern Utah. Pictured from front to back (right to left): Pranava Moody (President), Maggie O’Flaherty (Secretary), Jakell Larson (1L Section B Representative), Danielle Jimenez (Vice-President), Danielle Oberlander (Student Wellness Chairperson), Jack Silvestri (2L Representative), Avery Laub (GPSA Representative), Justin Branum (Treasurer), Connor Riddle (ABA Representative).

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ADVANCEMENT

ADVANCEMENT

BOYD LAW SCHOOL RECEIVES NEW GIFT TO FUND SMALL BUSINESS INITIATIVES

THE HUELLAS MENTORSHIP program is making an impact in our community with a four-level mentorship model: High school, college, and law students meet with current attorneys to learn about academic and career pathways. They have expanded their reach to Northern Nevada. If you are interested in being a mentor, please send an email to: BSLAdvancement@unlv.edu.

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We are extremely grateful to Tom and Leslie Thomas for this impactful gift.

Their generosity will make a critical difference in the Law School’s efforts to assist small businesses in the community with their various legal issues.”

LEAH CHAN GRINVALD BOYD LAW SCHOOL DEAN

Long-term donors to the William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV, Tom and Leslie Thomas, pledged a transformational gift to establish a Small Business Initiatives Endowment Fund, named after them, within the Thomas & Mack Legal Clinic.

Clinical legal education is a teaching method where students learn substantive law and practice in the context of real cases. The Tom and Leslie Thomas Small Business Initiative Endowment Fund will help students develop the skills necessary to become legal professionals, understand professional rules, and advocate for small businesses.

“Community support is essential to helping our programs grow and thrive, and this important gift to the Boyd School of Law from Tom and Leslie Thomas will bolster our efforts to give local small businesses the legal guidance and education they need to be successful,” said UNLV President Keith E. Whitfield.

“We are extremely grateful to Tom and Leslie Thomas for this impactful gift,” said Dean and Richard J. Morgan Professor of Law Leah Chan Grinvald. “Their generosity will make a critical difference in the Law School’s efforts to assist small businesses in the community with their various legal issues.”

Tom Thomas has previously chaired the UNLV Presidents Associates and currently serves as a Trustee on the UNLV Foundation Board of Trustees.

UNLV Vice President of Philanthropy and Alumni Engagement and UNLV Foundation President Rickey N. McCurry echoed the gratitude expressed by Grinvald: “The Thomas family has a long legacy of generosity towards UNLV. A commitment of this magnitude will advance our students’ education and benefit community members beyond the confines of campus. Their support continues to leave an indelible mark on the university.”

At the request of the donors, the total commitment amount will remain confidential.

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25TH ANNUAL AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION DISPUTE RESOLUTION SPRING CONFERENCE

25TH ANNUAL AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION DISPUTE RESOLUTION SPRING CONFERENCE

THE SALTMAN CENTER FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION hosted an evening reception for attendees of the 25th Annual American Bar Association Dispute Resolution Spring Conference in Las Vegas. The reception was held on May 10, 2023, at the Thomas & Mack Redd Room.

Among those joining conference attendees at the on-campus event were Boyd School of Law Dean Leah Chan Grinvald; Associate Dean Lydia Nussbaum; Professors Jean Sternlight, Thomas Main, Ruben Garcia, and Mary Beth Beazley; and Adjunct Professors Patrick Chapin, Eleissa Lavelle, Margaret Crowley, and Michael Stannard. The Hon. Jay Young (Ret.) and Hon. Philip M. Pro (Ret.) also were in attendance, as were several Boyd School of Law alumni and members of the Saltman Center Board of Advisors.

Dean Grinvald and Associate Dean Nussbaum welcomed guests and shared some insights about the William S. Boyd School of Law and the Saltman Center.

Guests enjoyed hors d’oeuvres, drinks, and networking with colleagues throughout the event.

ABA Dispute Resolution Spring Conference attendees smile for photos in between enjoying food, drinks, and networking with colleagues.

SAVE THE DATE: BEECROFT LECTURE 2024 Maureen Arellano Weston has been selected as the 2024 Beecroft Lecture presenter. A professor of law at Pepperdine University’s Caruso School of Law, Weston also serves as director of the school’s entertainment, media, and sports dispute resolution project.

Weston will present on “Arbitrating Sports, Politics & Human Rights: Who Decides?” on February 22, 2024, at 5:30 p.m. at the Thomas & Mack Moot

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Lydia Nussbaum, director of the Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution, addresses the crowd at the ABA reception.

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UNLV’s Gaming Law Curriculum Is Now More Accessible.

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