Course:
Privacy, Publicity and Defamation

Stephen Bates is an associate professor in the Hank Greenspun School of Journalism and Media Studies at UNLV. A graduate of Harvard Law School, he is the author, coauthor, or editor of four books. His articles on legal aspects of technology have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Wilson Quarterly, Technology Review, and the Minnesota Journal of Law, Science, and Technology.

Jay S. Bybee is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He graduated magna cum laude from Brigham Young University and earned his J.D. cum laude from the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University, where he was on the editorial board of the BYU Law Review. From 1991 to 1999, Judge Bybee served on the faculty of the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at Louisiana State University. In 1999, Judge Bybee joined the founding faculty of the William S. Boyd School of Law. At both LSU and UNLV, he taught constitutional law, administrative law, and civil procedure. Judge Bybee was appointed by President George W. Bush as Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice, a position he held from 2001 to 2003. In 2002, President Bush nominated him to be a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Judge Bybee was confirmed by the Senate and appointed by the President in 2003.

Course:
Opening Statements and Closing Arguments

Pete was selected as a fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers in 2015 and has taught at the State Bar of Nevada, Trial Academy and frequently teaches CLE courses for the Nevada Justice Association. Read more here.

Course: Mediation Advocacy

Valerie P. Cooke has served as a United States Magistrate Judge for the District of Nevada since 1999. Judge Cooke was a member of the Ninth Circuit’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee from 2001 until 2013, and she chaired the committee from 2009 to 2013. She has participated in educational programs on court-sponsored alternative dispute resolution nationally and abroad in Chile, Spain, Argentina, Malaysia, and the Marshall Islands. Judge Cooke developed the District of Nevada’s inmate early mediation program and oversaw the implementation of electronic filing for inmates engaged in civil rights litigation in federal court. Judge Cooke has presented programs on inmate mediation and case management in the Ninth Circuit and nationally. In addition, she piloted the District of Nevada’s reentry court program, which began in 2011.

Prior to appointment she was a partner in the law firm of McDonald Carano Wilson LLP where she devoted her practice to creditors’ rights in bankruptcy and commercial litigation. Judge Cooke graduated with honors from the University of Nevada and received her J.D. from Northwestern School of Law of Lewis and Clark College. She served as the 2008-2009 president of the Bruce R. Thompson Chapter of the American Inns of Court, and prior to her tenure on the bench, she served on the Nevada Tax Commission and the Nevada Judicial Discipline Commission. Judge Cooke was honored in 2001 as Outstanding Woman Lawyer by the Northern Nevada Women Lawyers Association, and she served as the Association’s president in 1990.

Courses:
Introduction to Systems Design
Mediation Advocacy

David M. Doto had a distinguished legal career spanning two decades as a civil litigator and business legal consultant representing clients ranging from individuals to Fortune 100 companies in the state and federal courts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Nevada. David is a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, and a co-founder of the LCA’s American Academy of Alternative Dispute Resolution. David is currently the Director of the Conflict Transformation Institute of CoralBridge Partners, LLC, a private consulting firm, and is a Judge Pro Tem in Clark County, Nevada. David is an experienced conflict management consultant and trainer, litigation prevention systems designer, conflict coach, group facilitator, and mediator able to employ facilitative, evaluative, and transformative techniques to litigated and non-litigated commercial, business, employment, and serious/catastrophic personal injury matters nation-wide. He has been named as among the top 15 northeast region mediation firms in both 2012 and 2013 by the Philadelphia Business Journal.

Courses:
Public Health Law
Public Health Policy: Integrating Theory and Practice

Max Gakh, JD, MPH is an Assistant Professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, School of Community Health Sciences. His research focuses on the intersection of public health, law, and policy. He has conducted research on legal authority to address public health issues, public health legal preparedness, and legal mechanisms that incorporate health analysis into non-health sectors. Most recently, he was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Visiting Attorney with the Partnership for Public Health Law in Washington, DC. He has also worked as a non-partisan legislative attorney, assisting state legislators with legal research, analysis, and drafting. Currently, he is collaborating with community partners on a grant-funded project that seeks to study the possible health effects of full-day kindergarten.

Courses:
International Commercial Arbitration
International Negotiations & Mediation

John Garman’s background and experience are in the areas of international commercial transactions and alternate dispute resolution. He is an arbitrator/neutral and has conducted educational programs in Europe and the US, addressing issues concerning Diversity, ADR and the international practice of law. Mr. Garman currently teaches as a part time Professor at University of Southern California Law School teaching International Negotiation/Mediation and International Commercial Arbitration and an adjunct Professor at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, and University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Boyd Law School, teaching International Commercial Arbitration.

Mr. Garman is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and currently serves as the Vice Chair- Chapters, of the North American Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is a Certified Mediator with the International Mediation Institute and a Neutral on the American Arbitration Association Commercial Arbitration and Mediation Panel as well as a Member of the United States Council for International Business Arbitration Committee, Sole Practitioners Subcommittee. He is also on the Attorney Settlement Officer Panel of the United States District Court, Central District of California and a Neutral with the California Court of Appeals, Second Appellate District.

Mr. Garman previously served on the Executive Committee of the International Law section of the California Bar and the International Bar Association Task Force to study and evaluate the text of the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Conciliation.

He is “Of Counsel” to Hasch & Partners, an Austrian law firm and has offices in Vienna, Austria and Manhattan Beach, California. Mr. Garman is admitted in California, the District of Columbia and as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales.

Course:
Criminal Evidence

Dominic Gentile is a founding partner in Gentile Cristalli Miller Armeni Savarese PLLC and has been a practicing criminal defense attorney for 44 years. He has represented many public officials, business persons and professionals in disciplinary proceedings and has been defense counsel in numerous high profile cases, among them the successful defense of Kathy Augustine in the only impeachment proceedings in Nevada history, the acquittal of Jesus Vega on murder charges which was internationally televised on Sundance Channel, and the acquittal of Grady Sanders on RICO charges.  The United States Supreme Court overturned a reprimand which he received from the Nevada Supreme Court as a result of a press conference he held in the Sanders matter at which he professed his client’s innocence and accused two Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department detectives of the crime. He has served as Associate Dean of the National Criminal Defense College,  Chairman of the American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section RICO Cases Committee and Vice Chairman of its Defense Function Committee, a member of the Board of Governors of the State Bar of Nevada and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.  In addition to teaching Trial Advocacy at the William S. Boyd School of Law, where he has been an adjunct professor for fifteen years, he has been a faculty member at Intensive Trial Advocacy programs at Harvard Law School and the Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University.  He is a founding member of the Nevada Attorneys for Criminal Justice and is a charter and current member of the prestigious Nevada Supreme Court Bench-Bar Committee. He has been included in Woodward & White’s Best Lawyers in America from its inception in 1983 to the present and has held a Martindale Hubbell AV rating since 1980.  

Course:
Nevada Civil Practice

Sarah E. Harmon is a Partner of Bailey Kennedy. Ms. Harmon graduated magna cum laude from the Honors College of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 1999, with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. She obtained her Juris Doctorate from the University of San Diego, School of Law, in 2002, where she was an Executive Editor for the law review, received the Order of the Coif, and graduated cum laude. Ms. Harmon began her legal career as an associate at Lionel Sawyer & Collins, and she was an Associate Editor of the 2003 to 2013 supplements to the 5th edition of the Nevada Civil Practice Manual. Ms. Harmon practices in the areas of appellate advocacy and complex civil litigation, including class actions, products defects, tobacco litigation, business torts, fraud, breach of contract, misappropriation of trade secrets, insurance coverage disputes, and professional malpractice.

Course:
Privacy, Publicity and Defamation

Richard F. Jost is a Director in the Las Vegas office of Fennemore Craig Jones Vargas. He has practiced law in Nevada for more than thirty-five years, primarily in the areas of administrative law, regulatory law, and municipal finance, project development and related tax and securities law. Mr. Jost has represented state and local government entities, non-profit corporations, private developers and commercial and investment bankers in tax-exempt project financings and redevelopment financings. He is the industry practice group leader for Fennemore Craig's Aviation, Aerospace and Autonomous Aerial Vehicles team. He is also actively engaged in the firm's Emerging Businesses and Technologies industry practice group. Mr. Jost holds a Juris Doctor degree from Syracuse University College of Law and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Dickinson College and is admitted to practice in Nevada and New York.

Kristine Kuzemka is Managing Partner and Owner of Kuzemka Law Group. Ms. Kuzemka practices criminal defense and personal injury, representing clients in all phases of litigation. She has more than a decade of experience, including aggressive representation of clients accused of serious crimes.

Ms. Kuzemka received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Washington in Seattle. After graduating from Seattle University School of Law, Ms. Kuzemka served as an appellate law clerk for the Clark County District Attorney’s Office and was a law clerk to the Honorable David. T. Wall (Retired) in the Eighth Judicial District Court. She was also a Senior Deputy Attorney General at the State of Nevada Office of the Attorney General in the Bureau of Consumer Protection – Civil Litigation Unit, a Senior Attorney at the Clark County Public Defender’s Office, and an Attorney at Marquis Aurbach where she practiced general civil litigation. 

Currently, Ms. Kuzemka is also a Neutral with Advanced Resolution Management and was recently appointed to serve as a Settlement Judge by the Nevada Supreme Court.

Courses:
Negotiation
Real Estate Finance

Eleissa C. Lavelle is a full-time mediator and arbitrator with JAMS, The Resolution Experts, the largest provider of alternative dispute resolution services in the country. Ms. Lavelle enjoyed a well-established legal practice of more than thirty years as a real estate, commercial and construction litigator and transactional attorney, representing financial institutions, developers of residential and commercial real estate, members of the construction industry, community associations, governmental entities and a variety of businesses.

Course:
Legislative Policy

Erin McMullen is an attorney specializing in government affairs with R & R Partners in Las Vegas, where she oversees the development and execution of legislative agendas for the company’s Nevada clients. Prior to joining R&R, she was an associate attorney with the government affairs group of Snell & Wilmer, L.L.P. in Las Vegas, where she specialized in governmental affairs; political lobbying; and administrative and regulatory law for clients in the insurance, health care, energy, banking, taxation and general business arenas. From 2003 to 2005, she worked a legislative correspondent for U.S. Senator Harry Reid in his Washington, D.C., office, assisting Nevada residents with a wide variety of policy issues and legislation ranging from taxes and budget, to labor and housing. She earned her B.S. in linguistics from Georgetown University in 2003, and her J.D. from California Western School of Law in 2008, and is a member of the State Bar of Nevada.

Course:
Construction Law

Leon Mead, having received his law degree from Loyola Las School in Los Angeles in 1990, has been handling construction law matters for over 25 years. He represents public and private owners, developers, contractors, specialty contractors, construction managers, material suppliers and design professionals, in construction contract preparation, negotiation and implementation, LEED Certification/Green Building compliance, litigation, arbitration and mediation, licensing board applications and administrative citations. His experience spans projects as unique as design and construction of multi-billion dollar complex commercial multi-use projects, and as routine as form UCC Article 2 sales transaction / credit agreements for construction goods and materials. Leon is dedicated to the development of Nevada laws that impact construction and to advising his clients and the Nevada construction industry of their implications: testifying before numerous state legislative committees on construction related topics and cited by the Nevada Supreme Court in support of construction related opinions. Leon is a frequent lecturer and author on construction law and industry issues. He also serves as an independent mediator and arbitrator of construction disputes. Leon’s work is recognized by his 2006-2015 Tier 1 Construction Litigation ranking by Chambers USA®; Selection as 2013 and 2015 Construction Lawyer of the Year in Las Vegas by Best Lawyers®; 2006 through 2016 inclusion in Best Lawyers®; 2006 through 2016 listing in Superlawyers®, his AV rating from Martindale-Hubble® and his most recent selections as  Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, as well as a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He has the distinction of serving on the Board of Directors of the Associated General Contractors, Las Vegas Chapter (now known as the Nevada Contractors Association), since 2005 and in 2016 was named as the first Associate Member to serve on its Executive Board. He is also a sitting Member of the Nevada Lawyer Editorial Board, a TIP Mentor, and has been appointed to various Subcommittees by the Nevada Supreme Court charged with reviewing and making reform recommendations to Nevada’s Continuing Legal Education Board, and Judicial Continuing Education requirements.

Courses:
Basic Bankruptcy
Remedies

Mike K. Nakagawa is the Chief Judge of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Nevada. He is a 1980 graduate from the School of Law at the University of California, Davis, where he was an editor for the law review and a tutor in civil procedure. Judge Nakagawa practiced in bankruptcy and commercial law primarily in California and Nevada until his judicial appointment. He taught bankruptcy law and business reorganization for more than ten years as an adjunct professor at McGeorge School of Law and Lincoln Law School in Sacramento. Judge Nakagawa has taught courses in basic bankruptcy law and remedies at Boyd School of Law.

Jessica Perlick is an Associate Attorney at Brooks Hubley, LLP, a civil law firm in Las Vegas. A native Texan, Ms. Perlick obtained her undergraduate degree from Rice University. She graduated from the William S. Boyd School of Law in 2013, and received the Barbara Buckley Community Service Award. During her time at Boyd, Ms. Perlick was a Public Interest Fellow, President of the Public Interest Law Association, Co-Vice President of the Society of Advocates, and Student Attorney in the Family Justice Clinic. After graduation, Ms. Perlick clerked for the Honorable Abbi Silver at the Eighth Judicial District Court. Following her clerkship, Ms. Perlick returned to Boyd as a Graduate Fellow in the Thomas & Mack Legal Clinic, working with the Family Justice Clinic, and co-teaching the summer externship seminar.

Course:
Trial Advocacy

Philip M. Pro came to Nevada in 1972 to serve a one year judicial clerkship. It has been a long year. After 35 years of distinguished service, Judge Pro retired from the federal bench in January 2015. Serving first as United States Magistrate Judge from 1980 to 1987, he was appointed by President Ronald Reagan as United States District Judge for the District of Nevada. He served as Chief Judge from 2002-2007. Throughout his judicial career, Judge Pro presided over hundreds of criminal and civil jury and non-jury trials, and as a Clark County Deputy Public Defender (1973-1975), and as an Assistant United States Attorney (1975-1978) tried over 100 jury and non-jury trials prior to assuming the bench. In 2006, he was named as one of the “500 Leading Judges in America” by Lawdragon Magazine.

Pro was actively involved in the founding of Boyd Law School, and currently serves a member of the Advisory Board of the Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution. The “Judge Philip Pro Lectureship in Legal History” inaugurated in 2005, is named in his honor, and his service on the bench was recognized in an article by Carl Tobias, one of Boyd’s founding Professors, at 12 Nev. L. J. 511 (2012). Pro currently provides arbitration and mediation services through JAMS, the largest provider of ADR services in the United States, and has participated in judicial training programs in over 20 countries. In December 2015, Governor Brian Sandoval appointed Pro as a member of the Nevada Gaming Commission. Dearie, Chief District Judge for the Eastern District of New York. She holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. in History and International Studies from Yale College.

Course:
Judicial Writing

Joe is a clerk at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He is a former IP Litigator at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati where his clients included Google, Groupon, and Phoenix Technologies, among others.

Joe has taught bar-exam preparation and law exam workshops around the country for the last several years. Although he has broad scholarship interests, one of Joe's primary focuses is the study of writing in and out of the legal field. He is currently working to develop an writing program incorporating cognitive science and other innovative teaching techniques.

Course:
Environment Quality Law

David Sandino served as Chief Counsel for the California Department of Water Resources from 2006-2010 under an appointment by Government Arnold Schwarzenegger and currently serves as senior staff counsel. He has worked on significant water, environmental, tribal, and energy issues during his twenty-year career with the Department. The Department operates the largest state water system in the United States, the State Water Project, which delivers water to 25 million Californians and 750,000 acres of farmland. He has taught water law, environmental law, energy resources law, and local government law at Texas Tech University School of Law, Santa Clara University School of Law, University of San Francisco School of Law, and Golden Gate University School of Law. He also has created and teaches courses at the UC Davis Extension for environmental professionals on California water law and policy, the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, and Tribal water law. He received a distinguished teaching award from the UC Davis for his contribution to natural science education. He received a 1999 Fulbright Fellowship to teach in Russia, where he taught international environmental law at the Moscow State Academy. He is a graduate of the Santa Clara University School of Law, King's College London, and UC Davis.

Courses:
Death Penalty Seminar
Opening Statement & Closing Arguments
Trial Advocacy

David Schwartz is a former Chief Deputy District Attorney for the Clark County District Attorney’s Office. He has been a prosecuting attorney for over thirty years. While at the DA’s office he was assigned to the Major Violator’s Unit where he tried numerous high profile cases including dozens of capital murder cases. In 2001 he received a “Meritorious Service Award” from the Inspector General of the United States Department of Defense for his work on the Arthur Bennett case. In 2014, he received the UNLV  "Outstanding Teaching by a Part-Time Faculty" award for his dedicated service. He teaches Trial Advocacy, Death Penalty Seminar and Opening Statements/Closing Arguments and is a consultant on death penalty cases. Mr. Schwartz earned his JD from Brooklyn Law School and his BA from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Course:
The Law & Business of the Music Industry

Howard Siegel was senior partner in Pryor Cashman's Entertainment Group until his retirement in 2016. He has more than 40 years’ experience in representing clients in all aspects of the entertainment business, with a particular emphasis on the music industry, during which time he has served as counsel to many of the industry’s most prominent recording artists, songwriters, producers, managers, and executives. He gained a national reputation representing artists such as Aerosmith, the Rolling Stones’ Bill Wyman, Carly Simon, the Backstreet Boys, Steven VanZandt, Todd Rundgren, Jim Steinman and many others.  As counsel to several American Idol finalists and winners, Mr. Siegel negotiated a number of significant licensing, publishing and other media-related entertainment agreements.

Mr. Siegel has also been involved in a number of music publishing company sales and acquisitions, as well as having advised on a variety of transactions involving the sale and purchase of master recordings and other entertainment-related assets.

Mr. Siegel is the current Chair of the Nevada State Bar Entertainment Law Section, former Chair and current member of the Nevada State Bar Publications Committee and adjunct Professor of Law at the William S. Boyd School of Law.  He is the former Chair of the Section on Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law of the New York State Bar Association, former Chair of the New York State Bar Association Committee on the Music and Recording Industry, and an Associate Member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.

Mr. Siegel is a frequent lecturer for the Practicing Law Institute and served for nearly 20 years as Co-Chair of PLI’s Counseling Clients in the Entertainment Industry program. Mr. Siegel served as judicial clerk at the New York State Court of Appeals from 1970 to 1972. He was an adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham Law School for 24 years and is a member of the Editorial Board of Entertainment Law and Finance and of Multimedia Web Strategist, as well as the Editor-in-Chief of the nationally distributed book Entertainment Law, currently in its fourth edition. Howard Siegel is author of several published articles dealing with the entertainment, music and copyright practice

Every year since 2007, Mr. Siegel has been designated as one of the “Super Lawyers” – a ranking of the top 5% of all attorneys in the New York Metropolitan area. He also has been recognized by The Hollywood Reporter as one of the top 100 “Power Lawyers” in the entertainment industry as well as being named one of the "Top Media and Entertainment Lawyers" by Chambers USA for several years.

Mr. Siegel is a member of the Nevada, New York, and California Bars and a summa cum laude graduate of Syracuse University College of Law where he was Order of the Coif, Editor-in-Chief of the Syracuse Law Review (1970) and a member of the Moot Court Board (1969-70).

Course:
Legal Drafting: Transactional Drafting

After graduating law school in 2008, Cassie joined the Las Vegas office of Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. as an associate in the commercial litigation practice group.  While there, she was able to develop her skills as a new attorney while under the guidance of the firm’s extremely skilled and well-respected attorneys.  Since 2012, Cassie has worked for Boyd Gaming Corporation, currently as Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, where she assists in a wide variety of matters for the publicly traded, multi-state casino owner and operator.  Cassie describes working for the company co-funded by William S. Boyd, the law school’s namesake, as “a unique honor as an alumna of the Boyd School of Law.”
 

Course: Opening Statements and Closing Arguments.

Judge Jerome T. Tao was appointed to the Court of Appeals, Department 1, by Governor Brian Sandoval in December 2014.  

Judge Tao was appointed by Governor Sandoval in January 2011 to the Eighth Judicial District Court. As a District Court Judge, he earned a retention rating of 86 in the December 2013 Las Vegas Review-Journal "Judging the Judges" survey, which was the fourth-highest score among the 32 judges in the civil-criminal division of the Eighth Judicial District Court. In 2014, Judge Tao was re-elected in a landslide, winning more than 67% of the vote.

Previously he served at various times as a Clark County Deputy District Attorney, Chief Deputy Public Defender, as a civil attorney in private practice, and was at one time a senior advisor to U.S. Senator Harry Reid.  He has been active in a variety of community organizations including Leadership Las Vegas, Focus Las Vegas, the Asian Chamber of Commerce, AAG, and the UNLV Vice-President's Commission on Diversity.  

Judge Tao is a graduate of Cornell University (B.S. 1989) and the George Washington University (J.D. 1992, with honors), where he served on the Law Review and the Moot Court Board.

Course:
Public Lands and Natural Resources

Blaine Welsh graduated with honors from J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University in April 1985. From September 1985 through August 1986, Mr. Welsh served as a law clerk to the Honorable Levi Ray Haire, at the Arizona Court of Appeals in Phoenix, Arizona. Mr. Welsh then entered private practice with the firm of Bonnett, Fairbourn and Friedman in Phoenix, Arizona, where he was an associate attorney engaged in commercial litigation from September 1986 until late 1990.

On December 16, 1990, Mr. Welsh joined the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Nevada as an Assistant United States Attorney where he has represented the United States and its agencies in a wide variety of civil affirmative and defensive litigation, in both federal district and appellate courts. For the past 12 years he has served as the Civil Division Chief and has served for more than 15 years on the United States District Court for the District of Nevada’s Civil Local Rules Subcommittee.

Mr. Welsh has developed an expertise in natural resources and environmental litigation. He has handled many contentious cases involving various challenges to the United States authority to manage National Forest system and public lands. He has also filed trespass actions against those who have used government owned lands without authorization, including one sand and gravel trespass case that was ultimately resolved by the United States Supreme Court. He has worked on a number of Clean Air Act enforcement actions involving alleged failure to comply with the applicable ambient air quality standards. Many of the cases resulted in consent decrees requiring the defendants to install pollution removal devices and pay penalties. He was part of a team of Department of Justice attorneys who worked to obtain penalties and properly close the Sunrise Landfill after heavy rainfall beached the landfill cover spilling garbage into the Las Vegas Wash.

Course:
Opening Statements and Closing Arguments

District Attorney Steve Wolfson brings many years of legal experience to the District Attorney’s Office.  After starting his career in the D.A.’s office in 1980, where he served as a Deputy District Attorney, Wolfson then served as a Federal Prosecutor.  In 1987, he entered the private sector where he practiced criminal defense for 25 years.

Wolfson joined the Clark County District Attorney's Office in February of 2012, upon appointment by the Clark County Board of Commissioners. He was chosen to serve the three years remaining on a four-year term vacated by the previous district attorney who retired. Clark County voters elected Wolfson to the position in November of 2014 and he began serving his first full four-year term in January of 2015. 

Wolfson has been active with the State Bar of Nevada by serving on the Board of Governors, the Judicial Ethics and Campaign Election Practices Committee, and other bar-related committees. Additionally, Wolfson was chairman of the State Bar of Nevada Ethics 2000 Committee, a blue ribbon committee established by the Nevada Supreme Court, to review and bring up-to-date all Supreme Court rules involving attorney conduct.

Wolfson received his bachelor's degree in criminal justice from San Diego State University and a Juris Doctorate from California Western School of Law.