LAS VEGAS – (June 11, 2018) – James J. Pisanelli and Todd L. Bice, founding partners of Pisanelli Bice PLLC, announced today that six of the firm’s attorneys were among select lawyers in Nevada who were recognized on the Mountain States 2018 Super Lawyers lists. Super Lawyers is a national rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.
Partners James Pisanelli and Todd Bice, and managing partner Debra L. Spinelli were honored once again as three of the elite Top 100 lawyers in the mountain region, which includes Nevada, Montana, Utah, Wyoming and Idaho. Pisanelli has earned Top 100 Super Lawyers distinction every year since 2013. The 2018 listing marks Bice’s fifth year in a row on the Top 100 list.
Managing partner Debra Spinelli was selected to the Top 50 Women Mountain States Super Lawyers list again this year. The 2018 listing marks the third consecutive year that Spinelli has been selected to the Top 50 Women list.
Both Pisanelli and Bice have been designated Super Lawyers for 12 consecutive years and Spinelli is a Super Lawyer for the sixth consecutive year.
Attorneys Dustun H. Holmes, Kirill V. Mikhaylov, Ava M. Schaefer were named 2018 Mountain States Rising Stars. This is the second consecutive year that Holmes and Mikhaylov have been named Rising Stars, and it is Schaefer’s third consecutive year appearing on the list.
Fewer than 5 percent of Nevada’s attorneys receive Super Lawyers recognition after undergoing a comprehensive, multi-step nomination and evaluation process. This multifaceted process includes a statewide survey of colleagues in the state’s legal profession, peer reviews, consideration of professional achievements, and independent research conducted by Super Lawyers’ parent company, Thomson Reuters, the world’s most respected source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals.
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LAS VEGAS – James J. Pisanelli and Todd L. Bice, founding partners of Pisanelli Bice PLLC, announced today that five attorneys from the firm were recognized on the list of Legal Elite 2018 by Nevada Business Magazine. The 11th annual list highlights the state’s most outstanding attorneys voted on by their peers.
James (Jim) Pisanelli was among select attorneys honored on the Legal Elite list of Southern Nevada’s Top Attorneys, along with Attorneys Dustun Holmes, Magali Mercera, Kirill Mikhaylov and Robert Ryan. Ms. Mercera also was recognized as one of the Best Up and Coming attorneys. This is the second notable recognition for Mercera who, earlier this year, was named one of 2018’s Women to Watch by Vegas Inc. magazine.
Legal Elite is an annual list honoring exceptional attorneys in Nevada. Lawyers are selected for Legal Elite based on peer nominations, and ranked according to where votes originated. This year’s Legal Elite polling included nearly 6,000 nominations. The attorneys featured on Legal Elite 2018 garnered the top voting scores throughout the state.
While there are currently 8,962 attorneys in the state, only 3 percent were featured on this year’s Legal Elite list for Nevada, and only 54 attorneys were included on the Best Up and Coming list. For more information about Legal Elite or Nevada Business Magazine, go to https://www.nevadabusiness.com.
LAS VEGAS – (June 1, 2018) James J. Pisanelli and Todd L. Bice, founding partners of Pisanelli Bice PLLC, announced today that five attorneys from the firm were recognized on the list of Legal Elite 2018 by Nevada Business Magazine. The 11th annual list highlights the state’s most outstanding attorneys voted on by their peers.
James (Jim) Pisanelli was among select attorneys honored on the Legal Elite list of Southern Nevada’s Top Attorneys, along with Attorneys Dustun Holmes, Magali Mercera, Kirill Mikhaylov and Robert Ryan. Ms. Mercera also was recognized as one of the Best Up and Coming attorneys. This is the second notable recognition for Mercera who, earlier this year, was named one of 2018’s Women to Watch by Vegas Inc. magazine.
Legal Elite is an annual list honoring exceptional attorneys in Nevada. Lawyers are selected for Legal Elite based on peer nominations, and ranked according to where votes originated. This year’s Legal Elite polling included nearly 6,000 nominations. The attorneys featured on Legal Elite 2018 garnered the top voting scores throughout the state.
While there are currently 8,962 attorneys in the state, only 3 percent were featured on this year’s Legal Elite list for Nevada, and only 54 attorneys were included on the Best Up and Coming list. For more information about Legal Elite or Nevada Business Magazine, go to http://www.nevadabusiness.com.
LAS VEGAS (May 8, 2018) – James J. Pisanelli and Todd L. Bice, founding partners of Pisanelli Bice PLLC, announced today that the boutique law firm has been named among the country’s best litigation firms in rankings compiled by the prestigious service Chambers and Partners.
Pisanelli Bice is one of only three Nevada firms honored in Band 1 of the Chambers USA 2018 guide for General Commercial Litigation. Chambers and Partners ranks attorneys and firms based on interviews with their clients and legal colleagues. The guide’s researchers report that Pisanelli Bice provides “quality representation in a range of commercial litigation for local gaming and hotel resorts, governmental bodies and construction companies,” and is “highly experienced at both trial and appellate level in issues arising out of corporate and real estate transactions including (mergers and acquisitions) and major property developments.”
The firm has represented Caesars Entertainment, Bally Technologies, MGM Resorts, City National Bank and Wynn Resorts, among other high-profile clients. This is the third year Pisanelli Bice has received Band 1 distinction.
“We are pleased and honored to be recognized among the best commercial litigators in the country,” Pisanelli said. “We pride ourselves on personal, comprehensive representation, and the Chambers ranking validates what our clients already know – that our intense focus on commercial litigation and our conscious decision to maintain a small, professional team enables us to concentrate all our expertise and resources on meeting our clients’ specific needs.”
Chambers spotlighted both founders as outstanding litigators, as Pisanelli is ranked as a Band 1 attorney and Bice is ranked as a Band 2 attorney for General Commercial Litigation in this year’s guide.
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James J. Pisanelli and Todd L. Bice, founding partners of Pisanelli Bice, announce that Kirill V. Mikhaylov has joined the firm as an associate attorney.
Mr. Mikhaylov will primarily practice commercial litigation. He has represented clients in a variety of matters, including professional negligence, contract disputes, construction defect, general liability, product defect, and shareholder derivative cases.
“We are pleased to welcome Kirill to the firm,” said James Pisanelli, partner of Pisanelli Bice. “His background and legal acumen will be a nice asset for our commercial litigation practice.”
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