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Las Vegas, NV – (Aug. 15, 2024) – Pisanelli Bice PLLC, a Las Vegas-based law firm, announced today that four of the firm’s leading attorneys will be honored with prestigious Best Lawyers Awards from Best Lawyers, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the global legal community. Recognizing their high-caliber professional abilities within the legal field and based upon a comprehensive peer review among top legal professionals, the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® will feature firm Cofounder and Partner James J. Pisanelli, firm Cofounder and Partner Todd L. Bice, Managing Partner Debra L. Spinelli, and Of Counsel M. Magali Mercera.
Celebrating Bice’s exceptional litigation skills, Best Lawyers will further recognize him in the 2025 edition of the Lawyer of the Year Awards.
In addition, Best Lawyers will feature firm associate Emily A. Buchwald in the 2025 edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America.
“This prominent recognition from Best Lawyers illustrates how several key members of our firm now lead the nation in a myriad of practice areas, a status earned through the determined application of insurmountable legal expertise, a highly strategic approach to complex litigation and a stalwart dedication to our clients’ success,” Spinelli said. “Our driven team of professionals takes immense pride in being honored alongside our respected legal colleagues, who clearly voiced their confidence in our top-level legal acumen through this rigorous peer-review process.”
Pisanelli’s Best Lawyers Award honors his outstanding contributions with bet-the-company litigation, commercial litigation, construction law, construction litigation and real-estate litigation.
Bice’s Best Lawyers Award recognizes his excellence in appellate practice, bet-the-company litigation, commercial litigation, first-amendment litigation, land-use and zoning litigation, and mergers-and-acquisitions litigation.
Bice’s Lawyer of the Year Award further honors his land-use and zoning litigation.
Spinelli’s Best Lawyers Award celebrates her esteemed accomplishments with bet-the-company litigation, commercial litigation, construction litigation and health-care litigation.
Mercera’s Best Lawyers Award honors her valuable efforts in commercial litigation.
Buchwald’s inclusion in Ones to Watch recognizes her top-quality work with civil rights law and commercial litigation.
About Pisanelli Bice:
Pisanelli Bice is a Las Vegas-based firm focused primarily on commercial litigation. The firm, founded by attorneys James J. Pisanelli and Todd L. Bice, represents clients ranging from single entity developers and entrepreneurs to Fortune 500 companies, municipalities, public agencies as well as some of Nevada’s largest gaming companies. For more information, please visit www.pisanellibice.com.
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LAS VEGAS – (July 12, 2024) – In recognition of their exemplary work in the legal field, five attorneys with Pisanelli Bice PLLC, a Las Vegas-based law firm, received the honor of being selected for inclusion on the prestigious 2024 Super Lawyers lists. The 2024 Mountain States Super Lawyers list will feature firm partners Debra L. Spinelli, James J. Pisanelli, Todd L. Bice and M. Magali Mercera. The 2024 Mountain States Rising Stars list will include firm associate Emily A. Buchwald. Super Lawyers additionally honored Bice and Pisanelli with inclusion on the list of Top 100 lawyers, and further recognized Spinelli on the list of Top 50 Women lawyers.
A rating service of outstanding lawyers who attain a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement, Super Lawyers selects the top 5 percent of attorneys to add to its lists each year. Super Lawyers’ patented, multiphase selection process, driven by research and peer review, targets to provide a credible and comprehensive listing of exceptional attorneys nationwide to use as a resource for those seeking legal counsel.
“These selected attorneys have proven their extensive legal expertise and top-level litigation skills in handling complex cases across a wide array of specialties, and our associate’s ongoing dedication promises an impressive career to come,” said Spinelli, managing partner of Pisanelli Bice. “Inclusion on the Super Lawyers’ lists demonstrates that respected colleagues across our industry recognize and honor our team’s acumen. We anticipate these listings will help our firm to connect with new clients, and we look forward to addressing their legal needs with our leading team of professionals.”
LAS VEGAS – (June 4, 2024) – Pisanelli Bice PLLC, a Las Vegas-based law firm, announced today that three of its leading attorneys, including managing partner Debra L. Spinelli, partner Jordan T. Smith and associate Tyler W. Stevens, will receive the honor of inclusion in Nevada Business Magazine’s prestigious 2024 list of Top Rank Attorneys. This prominent list showcases the top respected attorneys across Nevada, voted for inclusion by their peers, and represents the most elite professionals in the state’s legal industry.
With thousands of nominations submitted for the list each year, the multi-step review process involves verifying nominees’ standing with the state bar and tabulating their scores based on the number and type of votes received. Reflecting their celebrated accomplishments in the legal field, both Spinelli and Smith have been featured on the list before.
“Through ingenuity and resolve, our firm’s elite team of attorneys earn a widespread reputation for handling complex and high-profile litigation, with an unwavering focus on achieving the most positive outcomes for our clients,” Spinelli said. “Receiving these votes from our accomplished peers across the legal industry demonstrates that they recognize and value our hard work and passion. It feels extremely rewarding.”
LAS VEGAS – (Feb. 27, 2024) – Pisanelli Bice PLLC, a Las Vegas-based law firm, announced today the addition of Alexandra Mateo as a new commercial litigation associate.
Mateo earned her juris doctor from the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, after completing her bachelor’s degree at the University of California, Irvine.
Prior to joining the firm, Mateo worked with the Clark County District Attorney’s Office. She also served as an extern for former Nevada Supreme Court Justice Abbi Silver, and further worked with the education advocacy department at Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada. During law school, she served as the vice president of the auction for the Public Interest Law Association, and as the symposium editor for the Nevada Law Journal.
“Alexandra’s wide-ranging experience with highly respected legal entities demonstrates an acumen for a variety of legal topics, which will directly benefit our clients’ interests,” said Debra L. Spinelli, managing partner of Pisanelli Bice. “Commercial litigation remains a key focus of our firm, and we make it a priority to continue building our high-quality team in this complex legal area.”
LAS VEGAS (Nov. 3, 2023) – Founding partners James J. Pisanelli and Todd L. Bice, of the litigation firm Pisanelli Bice PLLC, announced today the firm earned 8 top-tier honors in the 14th edition of the United States Best Law Firms® rankings released by Best Lawyers®, the oldest and most respected Purely Peer Review® research and accolades company in the legal profession. This year’s rankings mark the first year that Best Lawyers has released the bellwether listings independently on a dedicated website: www.bestlawfirms.com.
The firm’s top-level designations are in the following areas:
Tier 1 for Appellate Practice
Tier 1 for Bet-the-Company Litigation
Tier 1 for Commercial Litigation
Tier 1 for Construction Law
Tier 1 for Litigation – Construction
Tier 1 for Litigation – Health Care
Tier 1 for Litigation – Mergers and Acquisitions
Tier 1 for Litigation – Real Estate
The 2024 rankings are based on Best Law Firms’ proven methodology that relies on qualitative and quantitative data on legal skillset, achievements and client successes collected through a submission process managed by Best Lawyers. Distributed to more than 30,000 C-Suite and in-house counsel, this year’s rankings were evaluated from the largest participation pool to date, which incorporate more than 97,000 client submissions, more than 2.8 million Best Law Firms votes on ballots and more than 13.7 million evaluations of more than 23,000 firms.
The 2024 Best Law Firms rankings can be accessed at www.bestlawfirms.com.
ABOUT PISANELLI BICE
Pisanelli Bice is a Las Vegas-based law firm focused primarily on commercial litigation. The firm, founded by attorneys James J. Pisanelli and Todd L. Bice, represents clients ranging from single-entity developers and entrepreneurs to Fortune 500 companies, municipalities, public agencies and some of Nevada’s largest gaming companies. For more information, please visit www.pisanellibice.com or follow on Twitter at @pisanellibice.
ABOUT BEST LAW FIRMS®
Debuted in 2010, Best Law Firms® is the most credible rankings of exceptional law firms, rooted in a rigorous, peer-to-peer, industry-driven evaluation. Achieving a tiered ranking in Best Law Firms signals a unique combination of quality law practice and breadth of legal expertise. Ranked firms, presented in three tiers, are recognized on a national and metro-based scale. The Best Law Firms research methodology includes the collection of client and lawyer evaluations, peer review from leading attorneys in their field and review of additional information provided by law firms as part of the formal submission process. Best Law Firm’s time-tested reputation and a future-focused commitment to innovation provides legal professionals with an elevated stature, validation and confidence that comes from being part of, and working with, a Best Law Firms honored practice.
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