Lincoln, Gustafson & Cercos is proud to announce that its Las Vegas office has begun working with the Legal Aide Center of Southern Nevada to help provide representation to children in the Las Vegas area. The Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing direct legal representation, counsel and advice Read More…
Coverage Issues Created By Electronic Data Breaches
According to Identify Theft Resource Center (ITRC), a non-profit national organization providing consumer and victim support and public education on identify theft, as of the end of July 2015, there have been a total of 450 breaches identified and more than 135,000,000 records exposed. As consumers, most of us at one time or another have Read More…
Protecting Your Ideas And Inventions During The Development Phases
Imagine you are a small company or a single person and you have an idea for an advancement of a product, process, or machine that already exists; or, you have an idea for a completely new product, process, or machine, but you don’t have the means to develop it. You need help from someone that Read More…
Nevada Guardianship System: Ripe for Abuse?
In Nevada, guardianships generally begin when a concerned family member or social worker petitions Family Court to appoint a guardian for someone who cannot care for himself or herself because of age or mental or physical problems. In Clark County, the case goes to the Guardianship Commissioner, an appointed hearing master who oversees all such Read More…
Conference With Witness During Deposition: To Do Or Not To Do?
During a deposition, many of us have seen the opposing counsel request a break and during that break hold a conference with the deponent. But is that conference protected under the attorney-client privilege? The answer: It depends on what jurisdiction you are in. In Nevada, a discussion of how to proceed as to communications held Read More…
Has Modern Technology Trumped The Presumption Under The “Mailbox Rule”?
As law students we learned early on about the “presumption of receipt” associated with the “mailbox rule.” The presumption of receipt derives from the long-standing common law “mailbox rule” that if a letter or document is properly addressed and delivered to the post office or postman via a mailbox, it is presumed to have been Read More…
