Dr. Orentlicher is the co-director of the UNLV Health Law Program and the Cobeaga Law Firm Professor of Law.

What did you learn growing up in El Paso, Texas?   I learned an odd juxtaposition of self-reliance and selflessness. My family admired people who handled challenges on their own. Yet they bent over backwards to pitch in whenever someone needed help. No one in my family ever asked for help, but they were always there when a car needed repair, or a house needed some work. So I learned that whether it’s you or someone else who is struggling…you don’t ask, you just do.  

Carmela is a Judicial Law Clerk to Judge Cynthia Dianne Steel in the Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada.