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Gaming Regulation and Gaming Law in Nevada
by Robert D. Faiss
Robert D. Faiss is the head of the gaming law division of the prestigious firm of Lionel Sawyer & Collins. He is largely responsible for the development of gaming law as a specialty, and he is particularly well qualified to comment on how regulation of the casino industry has evolved over the years. His memoir, Gaming Regulation and Gaming Law in Nevada, is an eloquent, eyewitness account of crucial events and moments in the history of legalized gaming in Nevada. Faiss took a position as assistant executive secretary of the Nevada Gaming Commission, 1961-1963, and then served as executive assistant to Governor Grant Sawyer, 1963-1967. Faiss played a role in Sawyer's radical changes in the way the gaming industry was regulated, including the creation of the Nevada Gaming Commission and the List of Excluded Persons. At the end of Sawyer's second term, Faiss entered federal government service, rising to become a White House staff assistant during President Johnson's last year in office. In the 1970s, he served as gaming counsel to the Del Webb Corporation in their defense against a takeover of the company by Frank Sinatra and his lawyer, Milton Rudin. He has also been heavily involved in international gaming law. In 1983, he won approval for Hilton Hotels Corporation to be the first gaming licensee approved by the Nevada gaming control agencies to be involved in gaming operation in a foreign jurisdiction—Queensland, Australia—and in 1985 he won Nevada licensing for Carma Limited of Canada, which was the first foreign public company to be licensed to own or operate a casino in the state. Faiss continues to represent a wide range of clients around the globe, including in Nevada, Canada, Europe, Australia, Asia, and the Middle East, and he has advised foreign governments in the creation of gaming control systems. (Published by Oral History, UNR ~ Shipped by publisher.)
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