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LAW QUARTERLY Christian Orme, Jeffrey Hall and Jacob Reynolds were promoted to partner at Hutchison HALL ORME & Steffen. Orme practices business and commercial litigation, tort litigation and product liability as well IGELEKE as premises REYNOLDS liability law. Hall practices business and commercial litigation, aas well as bankruptcy, condemnation and eminent domain law. Reynolds practices commercial, health care, business, employment and intellectual property litigation. In addition, Joshua Igeleke Jr. is an associate attorney at the firm. He practices corporate and commercial law, business law and commercial litigation, real estate law and employment law. Robin Perkins, an attorney at Snell & Wilmer, was elected to the board of directors of the Animal Foundation. Perkins practices business and commercial litigation, with an emphasis in financial services litigation and construction litigation. Perkins is a member of the Animal PERKINS Law Section of the Nevada Bar Association and the Animal Legal Defense Fund. P. Gregory Giordano and Robert McPeak are partners at McDonald Carano Wilson. Giordano practices gaming law, specifically publicly traded corporations and regulatory compliance, administrative law and procedures, and antitrust law. He was the first chief of the Nevada State Gaming Control Board’s corporate securities division, where he oversaw licensing investigations and supervised the analysis and monitoring of publicly traded corporations associated with Nevada gaming licenses. McPeak focuses on real estate law and land-use planning.
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deputy district attorney. The firm will focus on business transactions, privileged licensing and disciplinary matters, commercial litigation and representation of people and groups involved in government investigations. R. Gardner Jolley, William Urga and Bruce Woodbury, three of the founders and senior shareholders of Jolley Urga Woodbury & Little, were inducted into the Clark County Bar Association’s “40 Year Club” for 45 years of service to the Las Vegas legal community. Linda Williams practices commercial litigation and insurance defense, and Vincent AIELLO WILLIAMS Aiello practices business succession and asset protection planning, real and intellectual property development, employment law and fiduciary litigation matters at Kolesar & Leatham. Before graduating from law school in 2010, Williams served in the U.S. Marine Corps and as a Metro Police officer for 20 years. Aiello worked as in-house counsel for Beazer Homes. Three Southern Nevada attorneys were recognized by the International Law Office and Lexology. They are Edwin Keller Jr., Kamer Zucker Abbott; Riley Clayton, Hall Jaffe & Clayton; and Michael McCue, Lewis Roca Rothgerber. McCue won the 2015 Client Choice award.
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Cami Perkins joined Holley, Driggs, Walch, Puzey & Thompson as a shareholder. Perkins concentrates on corporate and real estate transactions and business commercial litigation. Bruce Alverson, managing partner of Alverson, Taylor, Mortensen & Sanders, was recertified in civil trial advocacy by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. Dominic Gentile, Michael Cristalli and Ross Miller formed ALVERSON a law firm with offices at Tivoli Village. Gentile has 44 years of legal experience and teaches at the UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law. Cristalli is a trial attorney and adjunct professor at the Boyd School of Law. Miller is a former two-term Nevada secretary of state and was Clark County
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Scholarship recipients Tasha Schwikert, Brooke Luna and Mackenzie Warren celebrate with mentor Paola Armeni, a partner at Gentile, Cristalli, Miller & Armeni, during the Las Vegas Business Academy’s fourth anniversary celebration at Twist Restaurant inside Mandarin Oriental.
The Best Lawyers in America, a company that ranks attorneys, awarded the following attorneys Lawyer of the Year designations: Maria Nutile, Nutile Pitz & Associates, health care; Mark Ferrario, Greenberg Traurig, commercial litigation, banking and finance, construction, labor and employment, real estate; Gregory Garman, Gordon Silver, bankruptcy and creditor debtor rights/insolvency and reorganization law-Chapter 12, commercial, creditors’ rights, debtors’ rights, litigation, real estate, workouts and restructurings; J. Randall Jones, Kemp, Jones & Coulthard, bet-the-company, commercial, construction, land use and zoning, real estate; Edwin Keller Jr., Kamer Zucker Abbott, employment law-management, labor law-management, labor and employment; Will Kemp, Kemp, Jones & Coulthard, employment law-management, labor law-management, labor and employment; Steven Oshins, Oshins & Associates, tax law-business and succession planning, community property, family businesses, income tax, limited liability companies, partnership, tax planning, trusts and estates, trusts and estates-asset protec-
tion, corporate, estate planning, gift planning, planning for closely held businesses, probate, succession planning, tax, trust administration; Edward Quirk, Greenberg Traurig, copyright, patent and trademark; Ellen Schulhofer, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, corporate; Jeffrey Silver, Gordon Silver, administrative/regulatory law-liquor, regulatory, gaming law-administrative, casino, Internet casino law, licensing, land use and zoning; Laura Thalacker, Hartwell Thalacker, employment law-management, labor lawmanagement, litigation-labor and employment; Mark Tratos, Greenberg Traurig, copyright, litigationintellectual property, trademark; J. Colby Williams, Campbell & Williams, bet-the-company, commercial, First Amendment; Carol Davis Zucker, Kamer Zucker Abbott, employment law-management, labor lawmanagement, litigation-labor and employment. Steven Hollingworth, Brian Eagan and Jeffrey Luszeck are partners at Solomon, Dwiggins & Freer. Hollingworth previously served as of counsel at the firm. He focuses on estate, gift and tax planning. Eagan focuses on fiduciary matters. Luszeck primarily practices business, trust and estate litigation. William B. Palmer III joined Alverson, Taylor, Mortensen & Sanders as an associate attorney. He practices health care law and professional liability defense. Timothy R. Mulliner joined Duane Morris as special counsel, with a focus on commercial litigation and labor and employment matters. Erin Barnett joined McDonald Carano Wilson as a real estate associate. Steve Good is chairman of Fennemore Craig’s management committee, succeeding Tim Berg, who served in that capacity for 10 years. The shareholders of the firm elected Sarah Strunk as chairwoman of the firm’s board of directors and appointed Jay Kramer as a member of the firm’s five-person management committee. Good is a commercial transactions lawyer with an emphasis on complex tax planning and the structuring of business entities. Strunk practices business and finance law. Kramer focuses on real estate transactions and finance. Joseph Brown, a director at Fennemore Craig, resigned from the Nevada Gaming Commission. During his tenure, Brown acted on the Caesars and Stations casinos bankruptcies, the licensing of City Center, Cosmopolitan and SLS, and the resolution of Dotty’s licensing issues. James Yee of Howard & Howard led a three-year effort to win a positive written opinion from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office acknowledging that his client’s power conversion technologies are patentable in 148 countries.
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