William S. Boyd School of Law News
The William S. Boyd School of Law prepares students for the competent and ethical practice of law, offering three- and four-year programs for the Juris Doctor degree.
Current Law News
The matriarch of the Mack family supported the university's rise since its founding.
When he’s not tackling legal affairs for the Las Vegas Raiders, the Alumnus of the Year for the William S. Boyd School of Law helps coach students interested in sports law.
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Unexpected challenges couldn't keep Catherine Msumali from making it to UNLV and (finally) enrolling in Boyd Law’s gaming law and regulation grad program.
Brookings foreign policy expert and UNLV faculty to discuss Southern border relationship as part of free public lecture series.
Law In The News
Recently revealed texts highlighting a Houston attorney’s apparent interactions with a former bankruptcy judge whom she was dating have added more fuel to the fire amid allegations that their relationship led to improper communications about cases he oversaw.
Trump’s plan would effectively be a sales tax that disproportionately harms working-class families and could cause a trade war that hurts US companies, economists say.
In what some attorneys are calling the largest "whitewashing" of a broker’s public record they've ever seen, a rep who headed UBS’s defunct Yield Enhancement Strategy (YES) was able to get Finra to expunge 29 arbitration cases against him that led to more than $30 million in client awards.
A secret courthouse romance has spurred ethics investigations and a fight over millions in legal fees.
For the last year, Jackson Walker has faced litigation — and presumably a hit to its bankruptcy business and reputation — since the revelation that a Houston bankruptcy partner was romantically involved with a federal bankruptcy judge who presided over many of the firm's bankruptcy cases.
The new Supreme Court session will begin, as it always does, on the first Monday in October. As the justices take their seats come October 7, they will do so with ever fewer Americans impressed by the black robes, the Vatican-like intrigues taking place in the marble redoubt on First Street, the authoritative tone of increasingly partisan decisions that are almost impossible to reverse, no matter how infuriating or inexplicable.