ROBERT D. FAISS

Robert D. Faiss is a senior partner with Lionel Sawyer & Collins, Nevada's largest law firm, and Chairman of its Administrative and Gaming Law Department. Faiss has been a member of the firm for more than 30 years.

In 1997, Faiss was named the "premier gaming attorney" in the United States and one of "The 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America" by the National Law Journal. He also received the "Life Time Achievement Award" in gaming law from the Nevada Gaming Attorneys and the UNLV International Gaming Institute.

In 1998, Faiss was appointed to the Bank Secrecy Act Advisory Group of the U.S. Department of Treasury as the representative of the casino industry. The Advisory Group provides a forum for law enforcement and financial regulators to explore with private sector representatives new mechanisms to improve and bolster federal anti-money laundering programs while identifying measures to reduce the financial service industry's costs and burdens of regulatory compliance.

In 2000, Faiss was named one of "10 attorneys who changed the legal industry in Southern Nevada" and one of the 43 "Most Influential Men in Southern Nevada Business." Faiss serves as adjunct professor for gaming law at the William S. Boyd School of Law, UNLV.

Faiss has devoted much of his practice to gaming law and has represented the Nevada gaming industry in state and federal administrative, legislative and judicial forums on major issues affecting that industry. He has represented the gaming industry in the Nevada State Legislature for the past 26 years. Faiss was selected by the Detroit City Council to serve as its special gaming counsel in the creation of that city's casino regulations. Faiss lectures regularly for the Nevada State Bar Association on gaming law. He is a charter trustee and past president of the International Association of Gaming Attorneys and past chairman of the Gaming Law Committee, General Practice Section, American Bar Association. He is a co-author of Legalized Gaming in Nevada - Its History, Economics and Control, Nevada Gaming License Guide, Nevada Gaming Law (lst, 2nd and 3rd editions), International Casino Law and Casino Credit and Collection Law.

Positions held by Faiss prior to entering private law practice included those of City Editor of the Las Vegas SUN; Assistant Executive Secretary of the first Nevada Gaming Commission; Executive Assistant to Nevada Governor Grant Sawyer, under whose direction Nevada's present system of gaming control was created; and Staff Assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson in the White House.

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