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Provost John White shares experiences as LVNBA oral history project participant
John Valery White, Executive Vice President and Provost of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, UNLV and a member of the Las Vegas Chapter of the National Bar Association (LVNBA) is the Keynote Speaker at the Southwest Oral History Association Annual Conference April 4-6, 2013, which is being held at UNLV. The theme of this year’s
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Black History Month Discussion at PLAN
LVNBA Members Vice President Professor Rachel J. Anderson and Professor Glynda White, together with Claytee White, Director of the UNLV Oral History Research Center, will be giving presentations and engaging in a panel discussion in honor of Black History Month on Black lawyers and judges, social justice and segregation, and politics and Black politicians in Nevada.
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Justice Michael Douglas honored at PILA Auction
Justice Michael L. Douglas is the honoree on Friday, February 22, 2013, at the 14th Annual Public Interest Law Association Auction to be held at the Fremont Hotel and Casino. This is the fourth year that the UNLV Boyd Law School Public Interest Law Association (PILA) will honor a member of the legal community for their commitment
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LVNBA Members attend NBA 2013 Mid-Winter Meeting
LVNBA Members David Phillips, Uri Clinton, Travis Buchanan, Vice President Professor Rachel Anderson, and Secretary Karl Riley attended the National Bar Association Mid-Winter Meeting, which took place February 14-17, 2013 in Nassau, Bahamas. LVNBA Members David Phillips and Travis Buchanan had the honor of meeting the Rt. Hon. Perry G. Gladstone Christie, M.P., Centreville Prime Minister and
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Vegas PBS Roundtable: Early African-American Legal Community
LVNBA Members Nevada Supreme Court Justice Michael L. Douglas, District Court Judge Timothy C. Williams, Chief Judge Karen Bennett-Haron, Attorney Booker T. Evans, and Attorney John R. Bailey participated in a roundtable moderated by Professor Rachel J. Anderson in March 2012. The participants discussed the development of the early African-American legal community in Las Vegas.
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CLE: Ethical Implications of Citizens United on Judicial Elections
LVNBA Vice President Professor Rachel J. Anderson, together with Judge Denise Langford Morris and Professor Spencer Overton, presented on a panel moderated by Associate Dean Alfreda Robinson entitled “The Ethical Implications of Citizens United on Judicial Elections: Can Money Undermine Judicial Elections?” on February 14, 2013. The panel was sponsored by the National Bar Association (NBA) Judicial
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Justice Michael L. Douglas Reelected to Nevada Supreme Court
Supreme Court Justice Michael L. Douglas was reelected to the Nevada Supreme Court in the 2012 Election in an uncontested race. Justice Douglas is the first Black member of the Nevada Supreme Court and in 2011 also became the first Black Chief Justice of the Nevada Supreme Court. Justice Douglas was appointed to the Nevada
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Aaron Ford Elected to Nevada Senate
LVNBA Member Aaron Ford was elected to represent Nevada Senate District 11 in 2012. District 11 is in Clark County and, according to the 2010 census, had a population of 128,564 of which approximately 12% are African-American. Senator Ford is a LVNBA member, a partner at Snell & Wilmer L.L.P., and holds a B.S. from
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