Our attorneys address special client needs through "multidisciplinary" practices, whose expertise cut across various areas to meet the specific needs of our clients who are based in Nevada or have significant operations here. The following practice groups have been built and designed to meet the needs of Nevada's most vital industries:

Internet & E-Commerce Group:
The volume of e-commerce that is conducted over the Internet is growing at an incredible pace. The government cannot keep up with it and, as a result, there is little-to-no regulation for the business conducted on-line. Our Firm has helped emerging e-businesses by augmenting the experiences of the company's management team and helping to develop the business models as ways of attracting capital, as well as identify the key elements for attracting and retaining employees. We have also helped these new companies forge alliances with strategic partners, using the web as a platform to do new things and perfecting fulfillment capabilities.

Beyond the hurdles of raising capital and meeting performance/productivity metrics common to businesses of any stripe, three of the largest issues facing this emerging industry are privacy, intellectual property and taxation.

A profusion of personal information -- such as credit card numbers, addresses, phone numbers, etc. -- is transmitted across the Internet without adequate security measures in place. "Cookies" allow a system to 'remember' which sites it has visited and provide a gateway for web site operators to access vital information from a computer system without the user even knowing. The map of E-commerce is being redrawn every single day. What's more, the legal intersection between Internet business practices and personal privacy is the front-line for civil disputes. The implications for e-marketers, e-tailers, distributors and every employer with an Internet connection are enormous. We help companies be upfront about their privacy policies and addressing the tension between target marketing and consumer privacy. Our attorneys' experience makes a profound difference in their capacity to assist, understand, advise and respond to clients and their computer-related privacy matters.

On the intellectual property front, a well-publicized issue revolves around protecting domain name registration, "cyber-squatting" and particularly aggressive "meta-tagging." Our attorneys are well-versed in all areas relating to creation, protection and enforcement of rights in web intellectual property (trademarks, copyrights, patents and trade secrets) and have commanded effective "cease and desist" injunctions. Increasingly, however, we are helping companies develop strategies for restraining competition through employee agreements, namely non-compete, nondisclosure, and non-solicitation agreements.

The U.S. moratorium on sales tax, while likely to be extended, leaves many other tax questions unanswered. States are seeking to replace tax revenues from "bricks & mortar" businesses; entrepreneurial companies -- especially those with less experienced management leadership may not be prepared for multi-jurisdictional tax issues or the complex balancing of tax-advantages on the balance sheet; consolidation triggers a host of taxable events; and accelerated growth in personal wealth needs to be addressed with personal planning for responsibilities.

Financial Services Group:
The Financial Services Group draws on the diversity and depth of the attorneys to deliver the benefits of a financial services "boutique". Our Financial Services Group is available to provide legal services to the full range of financial services companies:

For these clients, we can develop cross-disciplinary legal teams focused on their special needs. This cross-disciplinary approach amplifies the benefits to clients by designing better customized solutions to the most critical business issues.

Private Client Group:
Wealth is created in a myriad of different ways, but the custodial role played by private banks and others to protect and enhance that wealth remains largely unchanged. Critical to their success is a personal relationship with individuals and families and a full range of financial services that are responsive to very particular customer needs. We blend together lawyers from the corporate, real estate, tax, litigation, government/regulatory, entertainment and intellectual property fields to provide customized services for wealthy individuals, their families and heirs, their businesses, and the institutions, including banks, who serve them.

For these clients, more than any other, we invest the talents of collaborating professionals to deliver responsive, personalized service at the highest levels. We understand the dynamics of the relationship between these clients and their advisors and we seek to augment and execute the strategies for client success that they have planned together. And these dynamics ring true because the profile of private banking customers mirrors exactly the profile of our private clients. We do not disclose details about our private clients, but can provide:

• Documentation of asset acquisitions and dispositions and structuring transactions utilizing tax-advantaged strategies.
• Financing and structuring backed by the most sophisticated portfolios of real and personal property, including specialty lending on such tangible assets as unique residential properties, art collections, aircraft, marine transport, equine or other ranch holdings, wineries or other agribusiness, oil and gas holdings, among many others.
• Similarly, financing and structuring backed by less tangible assets including future earnings or protected intellectual property such as motion picture, television, music and other royalties and revenues.
• Effective leveraging of assets to strengthen security and investment return.
• Tax and estate planning, including dispute resolution and succession planning for family-owned enterprises and investments.
• Effective governmental access for both compliance and informal private counsel; in a parallel manner, discrete application of litigation strategies and tactics.
• Formation and operational advice concerning private foundations and other charitable endeavors.