Having worked for the Nevada Gaming Control Board and Nevada Gaming Commission before becoming a private practice attorney, how did that experience offer an introduction to gaming?

It was excellent. I first started out as a Deputy Hearing General in the Gaming Division back in November of 1986, so it’ll be 40 years this November of being involved in gaming law. I was there for about two and a half years and, at that time, the outgoing Chairman and incoming Chairman of the Gaming Control Board asked me to come over from the AG’s office – and become the Chief of a new Corporate Securities Division they were forming. 

I was the first Chief of the Board’s Corporate Securities Division for four years and today that’s now a section of the Investigation Division. It’s not a division itself anymore, but they conduct all the investigations and monitoring of publicly traded companies, mergers and acquisitions and financings. In 1993, I left the Board and became a private attorney with Lionel Sawyer & Collins, and that’s when I began my private practice of gaming law.