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Meet Rusty Graf
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i became a lawyer because i thought that
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i could do it better than the people
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that were deposing me i worked in the
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resort industry in las vegas and was
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deposed several times during that
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process i realized that getting to the
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point and being
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concentrated on a topic was important
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and i realized that that’s what i wanted
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to do
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is to go in that industry and be able to
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help people
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by focusing them on a goal
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basically when i first became licensed
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as a lawyer i started to participate in
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different
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committees with the state bar of nevada
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and i served on the southern nevada
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disciplinary panel for over 12 years
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and then after that i became or during
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that process i became an arbitrator
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in the mandatory arbitration program for
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the eighth judicial district court
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and in addition to that i was a fee
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dispute arbitrator for the state bar of
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nevada
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in the last two years i’ve
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been placed on another
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standing committee for the state bar the
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standing committee on ethics
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and what they do is lawyers and other
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citizens can submit questions to the bar
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about different uh topics currently
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we’re working on
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an opinion as to remote practice so
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there’s there’s a lot of
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ethical considerations that have to go
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into how a lawyer will
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either remotely or not remotely practice
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law and it includes the interaction with
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your staff it includes interaction with
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customers it includes contracting with
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your own customers everything else or
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clients it’s interesting but it’s also
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helpful to the industry as a whole
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you you start making an analysis in that
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particular instance we look at other
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opinions from across the country
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from other state bars that do the same
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thing that provide opinions and help
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lawyers
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uh govern themselves and govern how they
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interact and and with with clients and
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with the the public in general in
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addition to all of that i also serve on
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the board for the las vegas defense
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lawyers and i’ve done that for about
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five years now four or five years
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and the las vegas defense lawyers is a
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defense oriented
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sub-bar of
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attorneys here in las vegas that talk
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about
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and try and advocate for
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uh people
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in that industry the plaintiff bar has a
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significant presence in basically
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everything in negotiating and with
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legislating
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on different laws and different rules
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that govern the courts
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so this
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organization the las vegas defense
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lawyers was organized over 10 years ago
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and it was in an effort to
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address that kind of a gap in
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the communications and legislatively
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what was going on in terms of laws so
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that
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there are
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an even
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contribution
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by attorneys not just on the plaintiff
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side but also on the defense side
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Las Vegas, NV commercial litigation attorney Rusty Graf discusses why he became a lawyer and his service to the community.
