Long recognized as the crossroads of the gaming, tourism and convention industries, Las Vegas is a city of constant change. The past three years have seen a substantial jump in the number of hotel and condo construction projects planned and under construction. These include Project City Center, the largest privately financed development proposed in the United States, as well as Boyd Gaming’s Echelon project and Steve Wynn’s Encore project – with capital expenditure expected to exceed $12 billion on these three projects alone. At the same time, Las Vegas has recently become a home to entrepreneurial companies in the high-tech and manufacturing sectors. With high-rise construction projects regularly popping up along the strip, the skyline continues to transform. In short, it’s a 100-year-old boomtown. The fastest growing area in the nation, according to a Census 2000 report, Las Vegas is a natural fit for GT – one of the nation’s fastest growing law firms.

GT’s Las Vegas office and our entrepreneurial clients have been riding the crest of the city’s wave of change for years. We provide practical, hands-on legal services to innovative businesses, technology companies and creative individuals – everyone from entrepreneurs to scientists and artists. Our team, which got its start in 1969 as Quirk & Tratos, may be best known for representing many of the biggest hotels and casinos in town, as well as most of the Top 20 resorts in the world. With our focus on intellectual property, entertainment, art and real estate law, business reorganization and bankruptcy, and litigation, we have the tools to help today’s innovators build tomorrow’s Las Vegas. 

Our Las Vegas office is home to one of the largest groups of intellectual property attorneys in Nevada. We know how to protect your great ideas – and how to help you make the most of them. We also play an important role in helping to shape IP law, by both drafting new legislation and trying cases that test existing law. Our litigators have a track record of success in federal and state courts across the country, as well as before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, the International Trade Commission and other administrative tribunals.

Attorneys in our entertainment practice, one of the city’s largest, represent celebrity entertainers, major production companies and world-class casinos, resorts and theatrical venues. We also have extensive capabilities and experience in the areas of personal rights of privacy and publicity.

Along with IP, entertainment and art law, our work for numerous Las Vegas hotels, resorts and casinos brings together our strengths in real estate law, cyberlaw and general corporate practice. Our growing practice in administrative and regulatory law and local government matters has likewise proven valuable to entrepreneurs seeking to develop and finance real estate projects, new business methods and new technologies.

Our commitment to the Las Vegas community reflects the firm’s strong tradition of service. Our attorneys include a former trial attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Nevada. We also hold leadership positions or are otherwise actively involved in community and service organizations such as the Boys & Girls Club Foundation, Junior Achievement of Southern Nevada, the Lied Discovery Children’s Museum, the UNLV Foundation and UNLV Research Foundation, and Variety International.