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Al Nunez and Lynda Hartzell
Al Nunez is director of tax services and Lynda Hartzell is a manager of litigation and investigation services for the gaming practice at McGladrey & Pullen. Nunez has extensive experience with gaming operators, manufacturers, airlines, utilities, Internet application service providers and retailers, and is a certified public accountant with a law degree from UNLV. Hartzell specializes in forensic accounting and fraud examinations, and has extensive experience in the gaming industry. She previously was chief of the audit division of the Nevada Gaming Control Board. She is a certified fraud examiner, certified public accountant and certified internal auditor.
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Gordon and Silver, attorneys and counselors at law with headquarters in Las Vegas, has opened a law office in Reno. Joining the firm is a staff of three attorneys who have spent their careers practicing in Northern Nevada: John P. Desmond, Brian R. Irvine and Molly Malone Rezac. All three are joining as shareholders of the firm and Desmond is the partner-in-charge of the Reno office. Desmond focuses on practice areas of commercial litigation and appellate work. Irvine practices in areas of litigation, appellate, banking, bankruptcy and creditors rights, and construction. Rezac focuses on employment, administrative and regulatory law, and litigation practice areas including employment and human resource compliance.
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Tracy DiFillippo
Tracy DiFillippo a member of the litigation practice at the law firm of Jones Vargas, has been named by Gov. Brian Sandoval to the Chiropractic Physicians Board of Nevada. DiFillippo joins five doctors and one member of the consumer public on the board, which is comprised of individuals from throughout the state. The board is charged with regulation of the chiropractic industry throughout the state.
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Patricia Lee
Patricia Lee, a partner in the law firm of Hutchison & Steffen, is president of the Las Vegas chapter of the National Bar Association Foundation. The foundation’s goal is to promote diversity in the bar by raising money for scholastic scholarships for minority and low-income students in law school, among other activities.
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Aliza Nave-Worth
Alisa Nave-Worth is an associate in the litigation and government relations groups at the law firm of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck. She previously was a principal at the Capitol Company, a public policy and government affairs consulting firm.
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Amy Baker
Phillip Thompson
Amy Baker and Phillip Thompson have joined the litigation department of Lionel Sawyer & Collins. Baker earned her J.D. in 2010 from the William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV. She was a recipient of the CALI Awards in Pre-trial Litigation, Legal Drafting, and Advanced Advocacy: Legislative Police in Gaming Law. Thompson is a 2010 cum laude graduate of the Indiana University Maurer School of Law. He received the CALI Excellence for the Future Award.
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Lorne Malkiewich, who is retiring as director of the Legislative Counsel Bureau, will join the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. He has worked in the legislative branch for more than 30 years and will start his new job April 3. The council does research and trains the judges — 20 in Clark County and six in Washoe County. The district judges in rural Nevada handle these cases. The Legislature is advertising for a replacement, and April 16 is the deadline for applications. The counsel bureau is the staff for the Legislature.
