Rachel Anderson (Law) received a certificate of appreciation from the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada in March for "Elevating the Conversation on Issues of Racial Equity and Social Justice."

Jeffrey Stempel and Thomas Main (Law) are two of the organizers of a civil procedure symposium, "Through a Glass Starkly: Civil Procedure Reassessed," which UNLV is co-hosting this month in Boston. Both men also will present papers. All papers presented at the symposium will be printed in the Nevada Law Journal.

Rebecca Scharf (Law) recently was elected to the national Board of Directors for the Legal Writing Institute, a nonprofit focused on improving legal writing by creating a forum for scholarship and discussion on legal writing, analysis, and research. The institute has 2,800 members. A total of 32 candidates ran for the eight positions on the board…

Stacey Tovino (Law) will give a one-hour talk at the 8th annual Nevada State Conference on Problem Gambling this month at Harrah's in Reno. Her talk will address health insurance coverage of gambling disorders after the Affordable Care Act. In February, she gave the Distinguished Health Law Lecture at Saint Louis University School of Law's Center…

Francine Lipman (Law) spoke at the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools in January. She participated in a panel discussion titled "Fifty Years After the War on Poverty: Evaluating Past Enactments and Interdisciplinary Approaches for Addressing Poverty in the 21st Century." The discussion focused on how the federal role in…

Addie Rolnick (Law) testified on Feb. 11 as an expert witness at one of four national hearings held by the U.S. attorney general's Advisory Committee on American Indian and Alaska Native Children Exposed to Violence. This hearing focused on the juvenile systems' (tribal, state and federal) response to American Indian/Alaska Native children exposed…

Jennifer Carr (Law) will speak on March 6 at the second annual Southwestern Consortium of Academic Support Professionals Workshop. The workshop will take place at St. Mary's School of Law in San Antonio. She will discuss assessing and expanding law school academic support programs to find and fill areas of need to ensure student success.

Stacey Tovino (Law) gave a talk at the Gaming Law Minefield National Institute at the Green Valley Ranch Resort in February. Her talk addressed health insurance coverage of gambling disorders in light of the Affordable Care Act and the American Psychiatric Association's new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,…

Jean Sternlight (Law) made a presentation on "Disarming Employees? Examining Case Outcomes and Legal Representation in Employment Arbitration" at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law in February. The talk was part of a symposium on forced arbitration in the workplace.

Ruben Garcia (Law) last month began his two-year term as co-president of the Society of American Law Teachers, a national organization dedicated to the improvement of legal education by emphasizing the values of justice, diversity, and academic excellence.

Miriam Meyer-Thompson, Evan Simonsen, and Justin Allsop (all Law) recently received first, second, and honorable mention prizes, respectively, through the International Association of Gaming Advisors' (IAGA) Shannon Bybee Scholarship Award program. It was the first time a school swept the annual competition. The three recipients were recognized at…

Mary Berkheiser, Robert Faiss, Frances Forsman, Gregory Gemignani, Dominic Gentile, Dean Gould, Stanley Hunterton, Douglas Edwards, and Thomas Pitaro (all Law) recently were named top lawyers in Southern Nevada. Editors of Desert Companion worked with Martindale-Hubbell, an authoritative resource for information on the legal profession, to compile…