Volume 4 Number 1 Winter Issue 2008
IMGL Members in the News Chambers Includes 18 IMGL Members The Chambers Guide, which lists the top attorneys in 175 countries, determines ranks by independent research carried out during the prior 12 months. The results are compiled in the Chambers Global, USA and UK directories. Recognized as the industry standard, the Chambers Guide ranks attorneys in every major practice area, as well as key specialty practices from over 14,000 in-depth interviews with lawyers and clients. For the first time, Chambers Global listed attorneys in the gaming law practice area. Of the 24 attorneys listed worldwide, 18 are IMGL members. |
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| United States Anthony Cabot Robert Faiss Nick Casiello John Maloney Robert Stocker Asia Pacific Jamie Nettleton Canada Cookie Lazarus Michael Lipton Israel Meir Linzen James Frank |
UK Tony Coles Nick Nocton Mainland Europe Justin Franssen Wulf Hambach Thibault Verbiest Quirino Mancini South Africa Wayne Lurie Garron Whitesman |
Chambers Global Edition 2008 Clarion Gaming has announced the release of Internet Gambling Report – Tenth Edition. Spanning 661 pages, the latest update of the world’s longest running, most comprehensive legal guide to online gambling features up-to-date information on I-gaming policy all over the world and provides crucial business and legal information to professionals operating Internet gambling and ancillary businesses. Plus, as the product of a “dream team” of contributing authors, it offers instant access to 41 of the industry’s sharpest minds. In addition to a foundation of covering central concepts related to gambling and technology, IGR–10 contains 25 updated chapters and five brand-new chapters covering recent developments affecting the industry, including the Antigua/U.S. WTO conflict, the implementation of England’s new gambling policy, the legal climate in Asia, the U.S. prohibition, cross-border issues in Europe, and more. It further delves into discussion of important business topics, such as intellectual property, age verification and advertising; and places additional focus on industry sectors like Poker and betting exchanges. Founded by internationally known gaming lawyer Anthony Cabot and edited by Mark Balestra, an 11-year veteran in I-gaming publishing, Internet Gambling Report is an industry standard and a resource that should be on the desk of every I-gaming executive and at the fingertips of anyone conducting research into the increasingly complex business of online gambling. It has guided industry professionals since its first printing in 1997 and continues to be an invaluable tool. Williams Kastner has announced that two attorneys in its Indian Law & Gaming practice group have been elevated to member (partner) status. Gabriel S. Galanda has practiced in the firm’s Indian Law & Gaming group since 2004 and has acquired extensive experience in complex, multi-party Indian law and gaming litigation matters. Debora G. Juarez, also practicing in the group since 2004, has gained notable experience providing legal and financial counsel to tribes in the areas of debt financing, corporate structure, economic development, natural resources and gaming. Williams Kastner’s Indian Law & Gaming Practice provides tribal governments and enterprises with the highest quality legal counsel for business, litigation and governmental matters. In August 2007 Mike McBride was elected to his second term as chair of the Federal Bar Association’s Indian Law Section, the largest Indian law organization in the United States. At the Federal Bar Association’s annual meeting in Atlanta in September, the association honored McBride with three awards as Outstanding Section Chair, Outstanding Service Award as Vice-President – Tenth Circuit, and “Meritorious Newsletter Award” for Federal Indian Law. His article (with Leonard Court of Crowe & Dunlevy), “Labor Regulation, Union Avoidance and Organized Labor Relations Strategies on Indian Lands: New Indian Gaming Strategies in the Wake of San Manuel Band of Mission Indians v. National Labor Relations Board,” will be published in Volume 40 of the John Marshall Law Review (Summer 2007, Gaming Symposium Issue). McBride recently addressed attendees at CasinoFest™ 4 on “Economic Development and Other Hot Topics” at the Barona Valley Ranch Resort and Casino near San Diego. He is an invited speaker on Indian Gaming law in November at Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas and the Fifth Annual Northwest Indian Gaming Law Summit in Seattle. Kathryn R.L. Rand and Steven Andrew Light announced their new book, Indian Gaming Law: Cases and Materials (Carolina Academic Press, 2008) and accompanying Instructor’s Resource Manual. Their casebook provides a clear, comprehensive and accessible platform designed specifically for Indian Gaming law and similar courses. Written by a law professor and a professor of political science and public administration who are the co-directors of the Institute for the Study of Tribal Gaming Law and Policy and leading scholars in the field of Tribal Gaming, this casebook is uniquely informed by the reality that Indian Gaming law and policy has evolved through political compromise as much as through litigation and law reform. The casebook includes materials relevant to the key legal contexts of Tribal Gaming as well as the type and relative influence of extralegal variables that shape Indian Gaming law. Indian Gaming Law: Cases and Materials is available through Carolina Academic Press at www.cap-press.com/books/1658. I. Nelson Rose, attorney and professor of Law at Whittier Law School, will be the principal luncheon speaker along with the Rev. Tom Grey, leader of the “anti’s,” at the National Council of Legislators from Gaming States 2008 Winter Meeting Jan. 4–6, 2008, in Scottsdale, Ariz. The topic is “The Third Wave of Legal Gambling: Cresting or Crashing?” For more information, visit www.nclgs.org. William Thompson’s commentary on gaming was included on the PBS national broadcast of Marketplace on Nov. 26, 2007. He also presented a speech on Casino Taxation to the National Caucus of Black State Legislators in Little Rock on Dec.14. Lewis and Roca is pleased to announce the recent addition of two professionals to its gaming law department in Las Vegas. Karl Rutledge is a graduate of the Boyd School of law. Before joining the firm, he was a judicial law clerk to the Honorable James A. Rice of the Montana Supreme Court. Glenn Light is a law graduate of University of Southampton and has an LL.M from Notre Dame University. In keeping with the Lewis and Roca tradition of contributing to the body of gaming law, they authored an article for this month’s issue of Casino Lawyer. New IMGL Members General Members Affiliate Members |
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