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Mr. Alonso has been practicing law in Nevada for over thirty years. His practice includes Gaming Law and Government Relations. He represents clients before the Nevada Gaming Control Board and the Nevada Gaming Commission on gaming regulatory matters, and represents clients on Legislative and government affairs matters before the Nevada Legislature and other governmental agencies. He is a member of the State Bar of Nevada and the Washoe County Bar Association, and is admitted to practice befor...
Bryce assists clients with the successful development of a wide range of energy and infrastructure projects throughout Nevada and the Mountain West. His clients include major renewable energy and infrastructure developers, mining companies, and water purveyors. Project Development. Bryce provides clients with innovative counsel in all aspects of complex energy and infrastructure project development, finance, site acquisition, tax incentives and abatements (including RETA abatements), and perm...
Gregg P. Barnard is the Managing Shareholder of Woodburn and Wedge and has extensive experience in the areas of business and corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, structured finance, entity selection and formation, real estate law, including acquisitions, residential and commercial development, and commercial leasing transactions. Mr. Barnard represents a broad range of clients both nationally and internationally, as well as local businesses, real estate developers, land...
Fritz Battcher helps clients navigate the complex strategies of mergers and acquisitions, public and private securities offerings, and other corporate matters. Working closely with entrepreneurs, Fritz helps emerging business and their owners bring the idea of a company into reality. He provides sophisticated guidance at every stage of development from choosing the right corporate entity, to ensuring compliance with standards and regulations, and strategic counsel to evaluate the risks and ch...
Gordon H. DePaoli is an experienced water law attorney. He has represented Sierra Pacific Power Company, now NV Energy, and the Truckee Meadows Water Authority in long-standing water rights disputes on the Truckee River. Mr. DePaoli was involved in negotiations leading up to the Truckee-Carson-Pyramid Lake Water Rights Settlement Act, Public Law No. 101-618, which resulted in the execution of the Truckee River Operating Agreement, and is involved in the process which will ultimately result in...
John P. Desmond is a shareholder and the firm's Reno Litigation group leader. He focuses his practice in the areas of commercial litigation and appellate work. He regularly represents and counsels clients in commercial and business litigation matters involving contract disputes, buy/sell agreements and disputes over intellectual property. He has also represented physician groups in regard to compliance and contractual matters. His representation of clients includes a significant number of mat...
Doug assists clients with virtually all aspects of residential, commercial and industrial real estate acquisition, development and finance. Doug also assists clients with non-real estate secured lending transactions. He has represented lenders, borrowers, buyers, sellers, and owners in a wide variety of transactions, including those involving the acquisition, financing and/or development of mixed-use master planned communities, office projects, high-rise condominium conversions, and industria...
Megan provides counsel in the area of real estate law, with an emphasis on commercial real estate transactions, development, federal equity receiverships, and financing. She has extensive experience in negotiating and preparing complex lease documentation, representing both landlords and tenants in ground, retail, office, industrial, data center, and build-to-suit leases. Her real estate practice includes complex purchase and sale transactions, as well as common interest community law as it r...
More than 20 years’ experience litigating trademark, copyright, trade secret and patent actions across the U.S. Has prosecuted over 1,000 trademarks at the federal and state level as well as in foreign jurisdictions. Balances accessible legal counsel with sophisticated client needs. In the areas of intellectual property litigation, trademark prosecution, licensing and entertainment law, Matt Francis vigorously protects, enforces and defends valuable intellectual property rights. For ove...
Laura delivers pragmatic counsel to help mining, energy, and natural resources clients navigate litigation and regulatory challenges. Laura's clients, including large energy users, mining companies, and water purveyors, benefit from both her extensive litigation and regulatory experience, and her experience as Vice President and U.S. General Counsel for a large utility provider. Regulatory Practice Laura represents clients before numerous regulatory agencies including the Bureau of Land Manag...
Nearly 20 years of experience handling the most significant and complex water matters in California, Nevada and across the west. Leader in California groundwater management. Business-savvy approach to water strategy. Brad Herrema understands the vital role that water plays in any project. From the development of groundwater management strategies, to identifying opportunities for water investment, to securing recreational water supplies, his approach integrates each client’s unique busin...
Matthew effectively and efficiently represents a wide range of individual and commercial clients, guiding them through the complex litigation process. Matthew is currently advising clients on – and litigating – force majeure provisions in commercial contracts, which are related to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. He provides counsel to a variety of clients, including mining companies, banks, property owners, and developers. Matthew litigates, among other things, contract dispu...
Brian R. Irvine’s practice focuses on areas of litigation, construction, banking, bankruptcy and creditors’ rights, and he is skilled in every aspect of the negotiation process. Mr. Irvine has recently specialized in very large commercial litigation and has participated in two of the biggest trials in Northern Nevada in the past four years. He recently obtained a judgment in excess of $100 million in claims for fraud and misrepresentation following an eight-week trial.
Businesses of all sizes throughout the Mountain West count on Dora to guide them through the myriad of labor and employment issues to keep their operations running smoothly. Dora works closely with her clients, talking through day-to-day employment issues, to ensure that best practices are in place and legitimate business reasons motivate employment decisions. She counsels and trains employers to hire, manage, and, when necessary, fire employees in compliance with federal and state employment...
Tim practices primarily in the field of creditor bankruptcy representation and insolvency planning. He also handles a select group of cases in the area of family law practice and commercial litigation. Tim represents financial institutions, secured lenders, and state agencies in a wide range of bankruptcy cases and pre-bankruptcy planning contexts. Given the complexity of bankruptcy practice, Tim focuses his client representation on secured real property interests for financial institutions, ...
Shawn B Meador has been practicing law since 1983 and has been a shareholder in the firm Woodburn and Wedge since 1989. A substantial portion of his practice is devoted to the area of family law, including matters such as divorce, child custody, spousal support, pre- and post-nuptial agreements and related matters. Mr. Meador believes that no two family law cases are exactly the same and that there is no single way in which every case should be handled. In most cases, however, he believes it ...
Chris assists emerging and public companies alike on a wide range of corporate transactions. Chris advises companies at all stages of growth, helping them successfully raise capital, complete acquisitions and divestitures, and comply with regulatory requirements. He also assists institutional investors in making private fund investments and counsels investment advisers in the formation and operation of private investment funds. Prior to joining Holland & Hart, Chris was an associate in th...
Clients appreciate Jim's business-savvy, pragmatic approach in his role as outside corporate counsel and transactional advisor to public and privately held companies. Jim helps companies manage a wide range of day-to-day legal affairs from entity selection and formation to corporate governance and compliance to evaluating and executing strategic business combinations to acquire, sell assets or equity interests, or merge entities. Jim works with owners, executives, and inside counsel of compan...
Businesses regularly engage Bob, a registered patent attorney, to handle a range of domestic and international intellectual property procurement, transactional, and enforcement matters. As a founding director-partner at what became and remains among the largest and most prominent intellectual property law firms in the Midwest and subsequently a former founder and Chief Legal Officer of a leading provider of digital multimedia distribution systems, Bob has an intimate understanding of intellec...
More than 30 years of gaming law experience. Former member of the Nevada Gaming Control Board and a leader in handling complex gaming and compliance matters. Operates at the juncture of legal, regulatory and business. Scott Scherer uses a unique mix of regulatory, business, policy and legal perspectives to help clients implementing new technologies and systems for sports betting and online gaming. Clients rely on him to steer them through the hurdles they face getting regulatory approval, obt...
Experienced litigator and arbitrator representing intellectual property clients in California and Nevada. Outdoor and community enthusiast. For more than 25 years, Arthur Zorio has been representing clients in matters involving complex business, commercial and intellectual property matters. He has experience in state and federal courts in Nevada, California and numerous other jurisdictions, having taken cases through trial and appeal. Clients often seek out Arthur to provide advice to protect...
Dane W. Anderson is a shareholder and practices in all areas of commercial and general civil litigation. He has represented a wide range of business and individual clients, including local and national companies, contractors, property owners, homeowners’ associations, charter schools and law firms. Mr. Anderson has litigated, among other things, contract disputes, property disputes, tort actions, mechanic’s lien issues, premises liability and cases involving misappropriation of tr...
Josh represents a wide range of business and individual clients in complex litigation matters. He advises clients on compliance with state and federal laws across multiple industries. He draws on his experience arguing before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and a strong background in shareholder derivative suits, business disputes, real estate transactional and property disputes, construction defect litigation, employment law, and civil rights litigation at the State and Federal level in t...
Shay L. Wells is a shareholder at Woodburn and Wedge. His practice focuses on business and corporate law, entity selection and formation, mergers and acquisitions, and real estate and other commercial transactions. Mr. Wells joined the law firm in 2010 after serving as a summer associate in 2009. Mr. Wells was recognized in the 2021 edition of The Best Lawyers in America on the Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch list, recognizing those earlier in their careers, in the practice area of commercial lit...