March Hearsay Contributors

Nathan Petersen

Petersen Rothermel Law Firm

Nathan Petersen is a partner at Petersen Rothermel Law Firm. His practice focuses mostly on Family Law and Estate Planning.

Judge John Fairgrieve

Clark County Superior Court

The Honorable John Fairgrieve was appointed to the Clark County Superior Court in March of 2015.

Angela Avery

Angela Avery Law, PLLC

Angela Avery is a solo practitioner in Clark County whose practice focuses on Criminal defense handing primarily indigent defense cases.

It is now officially halfway through my term as President of the CCBA (only six more President’s Messages to go, thank goodness…), so I wanted to spend some time this month talking about the accomplishments the Board has had this year thus far, and the exciting things we have in the works coming up.

Spearheaded by Trustees Deb Wechselblatt and Erica Aquadro, the CCBA’s newly formed Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee has made some great strides over the past year. In October, the DEI Committee hosted its inaugural event, Coffee with Colleagues, which aimed to expand participation and socialization amongst local attorneys and to bring attorneys and judicial officers together. The Committee has also been working tirelessly to implement a Street Law program in local VPS high schools and as of the beginning of this month, volunteers have started teaching in a few pilot classes. Finally, the DEI Committee is working on a Judicial Mentorship Program that is slated to hopefully begin in the Fall. Thank you to all the DEI Committee members for the hard work you have done over the past year.

Our Membership Committee, led by Trustee Owen Sutanto, has been working on ways to expand our membership in the future. We are happy to report we have reached about the same number of members we had last year, but would like to increase membership even further in the future. One idea that the Committee developed, which is now in the works with the help of Erica Aquadro and our CLE Committee, is to offer a free brown bag lunch CLE to our members a handful of times a year. Our first free CLE will be held in late May, so stay tuned! Finally, I am happy to report that thanks to our Social Committee and former President Christie Emrich, our social events are all finally back up and running. We successfully held the Summer Soiree in July, which was one of our first big in-person events since COVID. Our first Barrister’s Ball since 2020 was on March 11th. We projected about 150 people for this event and sold out so quickly that we had to open up more tables to accommodate the over 200 people who wanted to attend.

We have some more exciting events and ideas for the CCBA and its members in the works for the upcoming next six months, including some new workgroups we are forming to explore additional benefits we can offer our members in the years to come. If you have anything you would like to see offered as a member benefit, or any ideas for the CCBA in the future, please reach out to me and share. We are here to serve our members and are always looking for input.