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Washoe County Bar's Find A Lawyer search page will help you find a Northern Nevada lawyer by practice area. All participants of Find A Lawyer are members of WCBA and have joined the Find A Lawyer service. Click on the owl to get started. — a service of Washoe County Bar Association.
WCBA's valuable legal guide for senior citizens,their families and caregivers is now online at nvseniorlegalguide.org
Find answers and resources for all the important questions that seniors and their families face: wills & trusts, benefits, employment, driving, housing, health care, and much more. Links and phone numbers included to find more help.
To request a copy call (775) 786-4494 or send e-mail to WCBA.
WCBA online, interactive "Survival Guide" for teens and their parents offers legal information and resources on all the topics teens face when they turn 18 and face adult responsibilities. nowthatyouare18.org covers topics from credit cards to renting an apartment, from identity theft to car insurance, and from geting arrested to marriage.
About WCBA
Washoe County Bar Association was incorporated in 1905 to serve the legal community in Reno and Sparks, Nevada. It now has over 1300 members throughout Northern Nevada. The Bar's mission is to further professionalism, ethics and service in the practice of law.
Today, Washoe County Bar Association offers services reflecting that mission to its 1300 members in northern Nevada and to the public through professional and community programs.
- To join WCBA, click here for a membership form.
- The Writ is a monthly newsletter with association news, columns on legal news, classified ads and a calendar. Selected columns are available as searchable documents (members only) on this site at the Publications link. You can find the most recent 3 issues of the Writ in PDF format on the Publications link. Advertising rates are also available on the Publications link.
- Our Annual Pictorial Directory is published each summer and is a reference to the courts, government agencies, law firms and individual attorneys in northern Nevada. Directory order forms and advertising rates are available on the Publications link.
- WCBA's Judicial Performance Survey is held in even-numbered years to evaluate the performance of judges in the Nevada Supreme Court, Second Judicial District Court, Washoe County Justice of the Peace Courts and Reno/Sparks Municipal Courts. You can download the 2010 Summary of Judicial Evaluation.
Previous Survey Results
- WCBA meets monthly on the second Wednesday of each month (except for January, Jul and, August) at 12 noon at Harrah's Convention Center in Reno. Luncheons frequently feature continuing legal education along with speakers and programs of special interest to our members.
See the Events Page for events and reservation forms. - WCBA supports the Washoe County Law Library and the volunteer lawyers program of Washoe Legal Services through a dues assessment to members. In 2011, WCBA contributed $15,000 to each entity.
President Clayton Brust Robison Belaustegui Sharp & Low 71 Washington St. Reno, NV 89503 (775) 329-3151 Fax (775) 329-7941 Vice President Michael V. Kattelman Silverman, Decaria & Kattelman, Chtd. 6140 Plumas St. # 200 Reno, NV 89519 (775) 322-3223 Fax (775) 322-3649 Secretary Jasmine Mehta Nevada Attorney General's Office 100 N. Carson St. Carson City, NV 89701 (775) 684-1217 Fax (775) 684-1108 |
Treasurer Tiffinay Barker Pagni Lemons, Grundy & Eisenberg 6005 Plumas St. Third Floor Reno, NV 89519 (775) 786-6868 Fax (775) 786-9716 Sergeant-at-Arms Cotter C. Conway Law Office of Cotter Conway 432 Court Street Reno, NV 89501 (775) 329-2994 Fax (775) 329-2993 cotter@conwayatlaw.com |
Executive Director Christine Cendagorta Washoe County Bar Association P.O. Box 1548, Reno, NV 89505 775-786-4494 Fax 775-324-6116 Associate Executive Director Gina MacLellan Washoe County Bar Association P.O. Box 1548, Reno, NV 89505 775-786-4494 Fax 775-324-6116
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