The Notes: Nov. 30-Dec. 6

One Nevada Credit Union won second place among small-sized businesses at the 2014 Best Places to Work in Southern Nevada awards luncheon sponsored by Southern Nevada Human Resources Association.

Condé Nast Traveler announced the results of its 27th annual Readers’ Choice Awards. The top hotels in Las Vegas are Delano, Aria, M Resort, Venetian, Four Seasons, Cosmopolitan, Bellagio, Mandarin Oriental, Palazzo, Wynn and Encore.

2014 HealthInsight Quality Award recipients are Advanced Home Health, Advent Home Health, At Home Health Services, Mother’s Care Home Health Services Inc. and Reliance Health Care LLC. HealthInsight is a private, nonprofit, community-based organization dedicated to improving health and health care in Nevada, New Mexico and Utah.

Global Imaging Systems, a Xerox company, has acquired Las Vegas-based Élan Office Systems, a provider of copy, print and IT services.

South Point Bowling Plaza is open. The $35 million facility has scheduled 122 days of bowling tournament operations in 2015, 210 days in 2016 and 310 days in 2017. It includes a 360-seat viewing area for the public.

The Las Vegas Metro Chamber of Commerce announced its Business Excellence Awards. Categories and honorees are: Trailblazers — AA Printing Service, Nevada PEP, Visiting Angels and Las Vegas HEALS; Innovators — Clubhouse Children’s News Network, D&R House of Diamonds, Lazer Ladies Gifts & Awards and AMR-Las Vegas; Pacesetters — Baby’s Bounty, McDonald’s Greater Las Vegas Owner/Operator Association, Matt Smith Physical Therapy and Wirtz Beverage-Nevada; Groundbreakers — Andson, CrossFit702, Max’s Restaurant and Alpine Mortgage Planning; Cultivators — Mob Museum, Incorp Services, Sumnu Marketing, Eureka Casino Resort and Goodwill of Southern Nevada; Torchbearers — Nathan Adelson Hospice, Vegas PBS, Gensler and Four Seasons Hotel Las Vegas.

Border Grill opened at the Forum Shops at Caesars.

Lorna Jane and Corsa Collections opened at Tivoli Village. Cupkates by Kate moved to a larger location in the shopping center.

Maryland-based Axim Fringe Solutions Group opened a local branch to provide HR and mediation services to the contractors that support Nellis and Creech Air Force bases.

The Toy Box, Wolfgang Puck Bar & Grill, Kay Jewelers, Nekter Juice Bar, Crazy Pita and Sushi Loca opened at Downtown Summerlin.

Alibi Cocktail Lounge opened at Aria.

Nevada State Bank revamped its website, www.nevadasmallbusiness.com.

Station Casinos launched a Sports Connection prepaid card. The card allows guests to bypass the sports book to make deposits or cash winning tickets.

Downtown Summerlin began construction on its first residential development, the Constellation, a 124-unit, gated luxury rental residence complex.

The Leapfrog Group announced its hospital safety findings, and Dignity Health-St. Rose Dominican’s Rose de Lima Campus and Desert Springs Hospital were the only two hospitals in Southern Nevada to receive an A.

Best law firms

Several local law firms received the highest distinction awarded in the 2015 edition of “Best Law Firms” by U.S. News and Best Lawyers. They are:

• Armstrong Teasdale: Bankruptcy, construction litigation and real estate litigation

• Bailey Kennedy: Appellate practice, commercial litigation, health care

• Ballard Spahr: Corporate, government relations practice, land use and zoning, banking and finance litigation, mergers and acquisitions, real estate

• Boies, Schiller & Flexner: Labor and employment litigation

• Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck: Commercial litigation, corporate, gaming, ERISA litigation, real estate

• Bruce A. Leslie: Banking and finance

• Campbell & Williams: Commercial litigation, first amendment litigation

• Carbajal & McNutt: Commercial litigation

• Carlyon Law Group: Bankruptcy and creditor debtor rights, insolvency and reorganization

• Ecker Law Group: Family

• Emmel & Klegerman: Corporate

• Fennemore Craig Jones Vargas: Commercial litigation, government relations practice, banking and finance litigation, real estate

• Fisher & Phillips: Law firm of the year, labor — management, labor and employment litigation

• Fox Rothschild: Bankruptcy

• Frank J. Cremen: Criminal defense: nonwhite collar

• Goold Patterson: Real estate

• Gordon Silver: Administrative and regulatory, bankruptcy and creditor debtor rights, insolvency and reorganization, criminal defense: white collar, gaming, land use and zoning, banking and finance litigation, trademark, bankruptcy litigation

• Greenberg Traurig: Commercial litigation, construction, copyright, corporate, land use and zoning, banking and finance litigation, construction litigation, real estate litigation, mergers and acquisitions, real estate, trademark

• Griffin Row: Government relations practice

• Hardy & Hardy: Workers’ compensation — claimants

• Hilbrecht & Associates: Energy

• Holland & Hart: Commercial litigation, construction

• Holley, Driggs, Walch, Puzey & Thompson: Construction

• Howard & Howard: Labor — management, labor and employment litigation

• Jackson Lewis: Employment — management, labor — management

• Jay H. Brown: Administrative and regulatory

• Jimmerson Hansen: Medical malpractice — defendants

• John D. O’Brien: Commercial litigation

• Jolley Urga Wirth Woodbury & Standish: Gaming, corporate

• Kaempfer Crowell: Real estate litigation, government relations practice, land use and zoning, real estate

• Kamer Zucker Abbott: Employment — management, labor — management, labor and employment litigation

• Kathleen Jane England: Employment — individuals, labor and employment litigation

• Kemp, Jones & Coulthard: Commercial litigation, construction litigation, land use and zoning litigation, real estate litigation

• Kenneth A. Woloson Law Office: Corporate

• Kermitt Waters: Eminent domain and condemnation law

• Kolesar & Leatham: Banking and finance

• Law Office of Daniel Marks: Employment — individuals

• Law Office of Rory Reid: Government relations practice

• Law Offices of Gerald I. Gillock & Associates: Personal injury litigation — plaintiffs

• Law Offices of Kathleen M. Paustian: Employment — individuals, employment — management

• Law Offices of Steven J. Parsons: Personal injury litigation — plaintiffs

• Law Offices of William Terry: Criminal defense

• Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith: Mergers and acquisitions

• Lewis Roca Rothgerber: Commercial litigation, Employment — management, gaming, information technology, labor — management, labor and employment litigation

• Lionel Sawyer & Collins: Commercial litigation, appellate practice, corporate, employment — management, government relations practice, labor — management, land use and zoning, construction litigation, intellectual property litigation, labor and employment litigation, real estate litigation, real estate, tax

• Littler Mendelson: Employment — management

• Lubbers Law: Real estate

• Lyons Law Firm: Employment — individuals

• McDonald Carano Wilson: Commercial litigation, corporate, construction litigation, real estate

• Morris Law Group: Commercial litigation, construction litigation, intellectual property litigation, real estate litigation

• Nutile Pitz & Associates: Health care

• Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart: Construction

• Oshins & Associates: Tax, trusts and estates

• Pecos Law Group: Family

• Peel Brimley LLP: Construction

• Pisanelli Bice PLLC: Construction litigation, land use and zoning litigation, commercial litigation, mergers and acquisitions litigation, real estate litigation

• Pitaro & Furno: Criminal defense

• Rice Reuther Sullivan & Carroll: Real estate

• Santoro Whitmire: Commercial litigation

• Schwartzer & McPherson: Bankruptcy and creditor debtor rights, insolvency and reorganization, bankruptcy litigation

• Sneil & Wilmer: Bankruptcy and creditor debtor rights, insolvency and reorganization, commercial litigation, construction, bankruptcy litigation, real estate

• The Cobeaga Law Firm: Personal injury litigation — plaintiffs, personal injury litigation — defendants

• The Law Offices of Brian C. Padgett: Eminent domain and condemnation law

• The Rushforth Firm: Trusts and estates

• Weide & Miller: Patent, patent litigation

• Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial: Construction litigation

• Whittemore Gaming Group: Gaming, information technology

• Wright Stanish & Winckler: Criminal defense: white collar

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