KEEPING UP WITH BOYD ALUMNI
CLASS ACTIONS
2001 Governor Steve Sisolak appointed attorney Rosa Solis-Rainey to the Nevada Gaming Commission in April 2019. Rosa is managing partner of Morris Law Group. Her office will be in Las Vegas.
2002 Brenda Weksler has been selected to serve as a United States Magistrate and U.S. District Judge in Las Vegas. The announcement was made by then-Chief Judge Gloria M. Navarro of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada. Brenda’s investiture was August 13 on the UNLV campus.
2003 Dennis Gutwald was elevated from Of Counsel to Partner at McDonald Carano, Las Vegas. This promotion occurred in early 2019. Sandra Douglass Morgan was appointed as the chair of the Nevada Gaming Control Board, becoming the first woman of color to hold the position.
From left: Richard S. Madril (LL.M., ’17), Linda A. Madril (LL.M., ’17), Alannah T. Ariel (LL.M., ’16)
Heather Procter is Chief Deputy Attorney General Post-Conviction Unit for the State of Nevada Office of the Attorney General. Heather lives in Reno.
2004 Shane Jasmine Young is the founder of the Young Law Group in Las Vegas and recently moved to a new office location. Her practice focuses on estate planning, kids’ protection planning, business, and personal Injury. Shane is also a member-at-large on the Boyd School of Law Alumni Chapter Board.
2006 Kelley N. Goldberg joins Bodman PLC’s Grand Rapids, Michigan, office, where she focuses on Intellectual Property Law and Entertainment Law. Prior to her move to Michigan, Kelley worked at Intel Corporation in Santa Clara, California. Sharon Byram Rigby serves on the Nevada Tax Commission as the mining industry member. She lives in Elko. Karl Rutledge, a Partner and Chairman at Gaming Industry Group, was honored as one of the 40 under 40 by Vegas Inc. 42
UNLV Law | 2019
Three of a Kind SISTERS ALANNAH ARIEL AND LINDA MADRIL, AND THEIR FATHER, RICHARD MADRIL, WENT ALL-IN ON BOYD’S LL.M. IN GAMING LAW AND REGULATION BY PAUL SZYDELKO Alannah T. Ariel first developed a fascination for gaming while growing up in Arizona, where family card games were a regular occurrence and her grandmother dealt knowledge with the same enthusiasm as she did a hand of seven-card stud. “She didn’t teach us how to sew,” Ariel recalls. “She taught us how to play poker. And we did not go to Disneyland for vacations. We
went to Las Vegas!” Which explains why, when the UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law established a master’s program (LL.M.) in Gaming Law and Regulation in 2016, Ariel was as anxious to enroll in the inaugural class as a she would be scooping up a pot after winning a poker hand. Having already earned her juris doctor from the Southern University Law Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Ariel attended Boyd full time in 2015-16, com-
pleting the 24-credit program in a year. “I learned all about gaming’s ins and outs and all the newest [gaming-related legal] issues that were at the forefront at that time,” Ariel says. Her Boyd experience was so positive, in fact, that Ariel convinced two fellow law school graduates to follow in her footsteps: her sister, Linda A. Madril, and their father, Richard S. Madril, both of whom earned an