An Insider's Perspective on Protecting Your License and Your Business

Your license is your livelihood. When that license is threatened, our team is here.

David Clark and Janeen Isaacson spent a combined 20+ years as prosecutors with the State Bar and respectively served as Nevada Bar Counsel and Interim Bar Counsel. They know licensing boards work from the inside and can use that knowledge to help you protect your greatest asset.

Professional Discipline Defense

When you and your firm are threatened with civil claims, Joe Garin is ready to help. He has spent more than 20 years protecting professionals, their firms, and their agencies. Our team is here to help.

Specific areas include:

• Accounting & Financial Services
• Architects, Engineers & Design Professionals
• Commercial Disputes
• Directors & Officers Liability
• Employment Practices Liability
• Fiduciary Liability
• Insurance Agents & Brokers
• Insurance Coverage
• Legal Professional Liability
• Miscellaneous Errors & Omissions
• Medical Professional Liability

David A. Clark
Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Clark worked as a prosecutor for the Office of Bar Counsel for 15 years, including five years as the Chief Discipline Counsel for the State Bar.

He established the training program for the Southern and Northern Disciplinary Boards, obtained numerous changes to the Nevada Rules of Professional Conduct and the Supreme Court’s rules for attorney discipline, and he drafted the Disciplinary Rules of Procedure that were adopted in 2014 by a task force and the Board of Governors.

Mr. Clark has extensive experience in attorney regulation for professional liability, attorney discipline and commercial litigation. He has prosecuted more than 1,000 attorney grievances from the investigation stage through trial and appeal.

Janeen V. Isaacson
Ms. Isaacson has been a practicing litigator for more than 20 years. Prior to joining the firm, she spent eight years as a prosecutor for the Office of Bar Counsel, including serving as Interim Bar Counsel.

She prosecuted and obtained disbarments for the office’s high profile and complex cases, including the case against an attorney who was ultimately convicted of stealing more than $10 million in client funds.

During her tenure, Ms. Isaacson served as lead counsel for more than 100 discipline trials. Ms. Isaacson is one of the few prosecutors to participate in oral argument for a discipline matter before the Nevada Supreme Court.

Joseph P. Garin
Throughout his career Mr. Garin has defended more than 500 lawyers and law firms in Nevada, Michigan, Colorado and Illinois including the completion of jury trials, arbitrations and appeals.

He maintains a national practice focusing on defense of professional liability claims, insurance coverage disputes, directors’ and officers’ claims, and risk & litigation management.

In 2019, Mr. Garin led a Lipson Neilson team that won a Motion to Dismiss and Motion for Attorney’s Fees in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Click here to read the Opinion: Century Surety Company v. Dennis Prince, et al.; Ninth Circuit Case No. 17-16645.

Mr. Garin is an AV-Preeminent attorney and Co-Chair of the Professional Liability Committee for the Claims & Litigation Management Alliance (“CLM”), an international organization with more than 25,000 members.