Several Boyd School of Law graduates are featured in the February issue of Nevada Lawyer, the State Bar of Nevada's monthly publication.
Boyd alumni Derek Armstrong '10, David Gardner '10, and James Ohrenschall '09 are featured in the "Lawyers in the 2015 Legislature" article. The article, about the nine lawyers who serve in both houses of the Legislature, reads, "The lawyers in the Nevada Legislature traveled diverse and unique paths to their seats in the Senate and Assembly. The people of the state will be well represented in the 2015 Legislative Session, by these remarkable individuals from the legal community."
Alumna Nicole Young '13 co-wrote the article, "Stoked About Marijuana Related Accommodations in the Workplace?" The article reads, "It is clear to many that when the
2013 Legislature decided to compel
employers to make reasonable
accommodations for the medical
needs of marijuana-using employees,
it ventured well beyond any mandate
imposed by Article 4, Section 38 of
the Nevada Constitution. Setting that
issue aside for the moment, when
focusing on the mechanics of this new
accommodation obligation, one is
immediately struck by a conspicuous
inconsistency within NRS 453A.800.
On one hand, the statute provides
that an employer does not need
to modify those “job or working
conditions” that are “based upon
the reasonable business purposes of
the employer,” when providing an
accommodation (language added by
the Nevada Senate), but, on the other
hand, states that an accommodation
is not reasonable if it would prohibit
an employee from fulfilling any and
all job responsibilities (language
added by the Nevada Assembly). Two
different accommodation standards
are expressed in NRS 453A.800(3).
Which one controls?"
Alumna Elana Turner Graham '10 wrote the message from the State Bar of Nevada President, this month titled, "Ask Not What You Can for Your Bar, but What Your Bar Can Do for You." In it, she writes, "Most State Bar of Nevada members have just paid or are getting ready to pay their annual license fees. No one looks forward to bills and sometimes it’s very easy to forget license fees pay for more than a means of making a living in Nevada; bar membership also provides access to many truly helpful services and benefits. Are you taking advantage of them? Just as every hard-working attorney helps makes the State Bar of Nevada the best bar it can be; your hard-working bar can help make you the best attorney you can be!"
