Kummer Kaempfer
Your Nevada Law Firm
Litigation
Kummer Kaempfer's trial and appellate attorneys have built a reputation for litigation excellence and for providing high quality service to its clients. Our attorneys recognize that our business and commercial clients have goals and expectations and that litigation strategies, including alternative dispute resolution measures and techniques, can be developed to assist in attaining them. Our attorneys are conscious of the cost of litigation and, for that reason, the staffing of each case is dictated according to the needs, complexity and economics of the situation, which ensures that each case is handled in an expeditious and cost-efficient manner. Our trial attorneys engage in all aspects of civil litigation, including complex commercial matters. Our commercial litigators often work with the Firm's other practice groups to create litigation teams that are the most effective for the situation. The Firm's approach is guided by our constant desire to effectively optimize our clients' objectives and goals.
Kummer Kaempfer attorneys appear regularly before all courts in the State of Nevada, the United States District Court for the District of Nevada and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Several of the Firm’s attorneys are licensed to practice before the United States Supreme Court. Chambers & Partners, USA, America's Leading Lawyers for Business, has described the attorneys in the Firm's litigation practice as "infinitely capable litigators."
Awards & Rankings
Leading litigation practice
Chambers USA: Guide to America’s Leading Business Lawyers
Individual members of the Litigation Group honored by:
- Martindale Hubbell (AV Ratings)
- Chambers USA
- The Best Lawyers in Nevada
- Super Lawyers, Corporate Counsel Edition
Case Highlights
- Successfully defended an exclusive southern Nevada country club and prominent developer against highly publicized allegations of federal civil rights violations, succeeding in obtaining release of an injunction and judgment in favor of the country club on all claims
- Successfully represented a specialized boutique capital management firm in settling a real estate dispute concerning a multi-million ($62mil +) condominium conversion in Northern Nevada
- As co-counsel, represented a publicly traded former industry leader in the high loan to value “HLTV” consumer loan business in successfully prevailing in a proxy contest held contemporaneously with litigation involving the interplay of federal securities law with Nevada corporate law
- Successfully represented a leading “Grower’s Direct” marketer and distributor in the United States and Europe, of Papua New Guinea, "Penlyne Castle" brand "Jamaican Blue Mountain" and Ethiopian FTO arabica green bean coffee, in a confidential settlement of a shareholder dispute
- Successfully settled water rights dispute during a Judicial Review proceeding, resulting in significant savings to a private owner of 22.5 acre feet of water rights located in the City of Las Vegas
- Successfully defeated statement of contest filed by a primary opponent and other parties, contesting the outcome of the primary election for the Second Congressional District of Nevada. Our client's victory in the primary election, was confirmed by the Court allowing him to move forward as the party’s nominee in the general election
- The Firm obtained an award from a AAA panel of arbitrators in the amount of $10.5 million dollars on behalf of a general contractor and it’s subcontractors against the State of Nevada for breach of contract, breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing and wrongful termination involving the construction of the Southern Nevada Veterans Home. Addison Inc. v. State of Nevada, et al
- Successfully defended a billboard operator’s relocation of its billboard following expansion of US 95, based on the Federal Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970
- Obtained judgment in favor of a school district on § 1983, IDEA, Rehabilitation Act, and ADA claims after the plaintiff had refused a six figure settlement offer
- As part of a Litigation Team, successfully persuaded the Clark County District Court to strike down as unconstitutional the criminal enforcement provisions of the Nevada Clean Indoor Air Act smoking ban
- Successfully defended prominent developers through the Nevada Supreme Court against allegations that the city council wrongfully provided the developer zoning entitlements necessary to complete the project
- Successfully represented several of Las Vegas’ major commercial landlords in enforcement of their leases, including successfully enforcing disputed charges in a major commercial shopping center’s lease and obtaining summary judgment against the tenant
- Successfully collected more than $1.2 million after domesticating a British judgment against investors in the reinsurance market. Society of Lloyds v. Hudson and Society of Lloyds v. McKellar
- Successfully represented a Homebuilder Association in challenging an ordinance which created procedures that required supermajority approval by the Clark County Board of County Commissioners of zone changes that did not conform to the adopted master plan. Clark County and various other citizens and citizen groups filed an action in the Clark County District Court seeking a declaration that the ordinance was valid. Homebuilders Association filed a counterclaim. The District Court granted summary judgment in favor of Clark County. On appeal, the Supreme Court of Nevada reversed the District Court and held that the super majority requirement in the ordinance violated Nevada law and was, therefore, invalid
- The Firm successfully obtained a district court injunction that enjoined a local utility company from expanding a utility easement in such a manner that it would have taken without just compensation portions of a retail center’s parking facilities
Attorneys
Lyssa S. Anderson
Thomas R. Armstrong
Beau Bennett
William L. Bryson
Severin A. Carlson
Anthony J. Celeste
L. Joe Coppedge
Tami D. Cowden
Kathleen M. Drakulich
Mark E. Ferrario
Sheri Ann Forbes Murray
Lucas M. Gjovig
Leslie S. Godfrey
Thomas F. Kummer
Christopher R. Miltenberger
Andrew D. Moore
James W. Puzey
John C. Renshaw
Brandon E. Roos
Michael J. Schwartzer
James E. Smyth
Jason D. Woodbury
William J. Wray
Lisa J. Zastrow