NEVADA BAR EXAM DISTINCTIONS
Nevada is unusual in two respects that shape everything on this page. First, Nevada is a community-property state, so its marital-property, dissolution, and death-distribution rules depart fundamentally from the equitable-distribution and common-law regimes assumed by most national outlines. Second, Nevada has historically administered its own state-specific bar examination and is moving toward the "Nevada Plan," a redesigned licensure pathway, rather than adopting the Uniform Bar Examination. For both reasons, Nevada-specific law is heavily tested, and this page is the single source of truth for those Nevada departures.
📘 This page covers only where Nevada law departs from the national MBE/MEE doctrine. For the universal law, see the MBE Subject Outlines and MEE Subject Outlines.
I. EXAM FORMAT & SCORING
A. Not a UBE State—the Nevada Plan
NV Rule: Nevada has not adopted the Uniform Bar Examination. Nevada has long administered its own bar examination, which combined the MBE with Nevada-specific essay and performance components testing Nevada law directly. Nevada is transitioning to the "Nevada Plan," a redesigned, Nevada-administered licensure framework intended to better measure competence to practice Nevada law. The practical upshot for examinees is the opposite of a UBE state: Nevada law is fair game and is tested expressly, so the distinctions on this page are exam content, not merely practice notes.
B. MBE Component and Scoring
NV Rule: The MBE has been a graded component of the Nevada examination, scored alongside Nevada-specific written components, with a combined scaled score required to pass. Because Nevada is not a UBE jurisdiction, a UBE score earned elsewhere is not transferable into Nevada; applicants must sit for Nevada's examination (subject to any admission-on-motion provisions for qualifying experienced attorneys).
C. Admission Requirements
NV Rule: In addition to the bar examination, Nevada requires passing the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination (MPRE) and a character-and-fitness review by the State Bar of Nevada and the Board of Bar Examiners.
ESSAY WRITING TIP: Unlike a UBE state, Nevada wants Nevada law. On a Nevada-specific essay, state and apply Nevada rules expressly—community property, the Nevada recording act, Nevada's comparative-negligence bar—because the graders are testing whether you know Nevada departures, not just the national majority.
NEVADA BAR TIP: Confirm the current format under the transition to the Nevada Plan when you register; the components and weighting have been in flux, and a UBE score from another state will not carry you into Nevada. Plan to study Nevada distinctions, especially community property, in depth.
II. CIVIL PROCEDURE
A. Statutes of Limitations
NV Rule: Nevada's limitations periods differ from generic essay assumptions. Personal-injury negligence actions carry a two-year statute of limitations (Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.190(4)(e)). Actions on a written contract run six years; oral contracts run four years (§ 11.190). Medical malpractice generally runs the earlier of three years from injury or one year from discovery (§ 41A.097). Defamation is two years. Fraud is three years from discovery. National: tort SOLs vary; Nevada's two-year tort period is on the shorter side and its six-year written-contract period is generous.
B. State Court Structure and Pleading
NV Rule: Nevada district courts are courts of general jurisdiction; justice courts handle smaller civil matters. Nevada follows notice-pleading principles under the Nevada Rules of Civil Procedure, which closely track the Federal Rules. An action commences upon filing. National (federal): commences upon filing—Nevada mirrors this.
C. Personal Jurisdiction and Venue; Anti-SLAPP
NV Rule: Nevada's long-arm statute reaches the limits of federal due process, so minimum-contacts analysis governs. Nevada has a robust anti-SLAPP statute (Nev. Rev. Stat. §§ 41.635–41.670) permitting early special motions to dismiss claims that target protected speech/petitioning activity, with fee-shifting. National: anti-SLAPP statutes vary widely; Nevada's is among the stronger ones.
ESSAY WRITING TIP: On a generic MBE-style Civil Procedure question, apply the Federal Rules. But if a Nevada essay raises a speech-based tort (defamation, business disparagement), flag Nevada's anti-SLAPP special motion to dismiss as a threshold procedural device.
NEVADA BAR TIP: Nevada's two-year personal-injury SOL is short—calendar it immediately. And in any speech-related dispute, evaluate an anti-SLAPP motion early; the statute shifts fees and can end a case at the pleading stage.
III. EVIDENCE
A. Nevada Evidence Code vs. Federal Rules
NV Rule: Nevada has codified its own evidence rules in Nev. Rev. Stat. ch. 48–51, which substantially parallel the Federal Rules of Evidence but predate and differ from them in organization and some content. The state rules govern in state court; the FRE govern in federal court. National: the FRE control on the MBE.
B. Privileges
NV Rule: Nevada recognizes statutory privileges including attorney-client, physician-patient, spousal, and clergy privileges (Nev. Rev. Stat. ch. 49). The physician-patient privilege has no express FRE analog.
C. Expert Testimony
NV Rule: Nevada has not formally adopted Daubert; the Nevada Supreme Court applies its own reliability framework (drawn from Hallmark v. Eldridge) focused on qualification, assistance to the trier of fact, and reliable methodology. National (federal and many states): Daubert governs. Nevada's standard is functionally similar but not a wholesale adoption of Daubert.
ESSAY WRITING TIP: On the MBE, apply the FRE. On a Nevada essay, cite the Nevada Evidence Code and, for experts, the Nevada (Hallmark) reliability factors rather than reflexively invoking Daubert.
NEVADA BAR TIP: Brief expert challenges in Nevada state court under the Hallmark framework; Nevada has expressly declined to simply import federal Daubert caselaw, so citing the Nevada factors signals competence.
IV. COMMUNITY PROPERTY
A. The Community-Property System Generally
NV Rule: Nevada is one of nine community-property states (Nev. Rev. Stat. ch. 123). The foundational principle: property acquired by either spouse during the marriage through labor, skill, or effort is presumptively community property, owned equally (one-half each) by both spouses regardless of which spouse earned it or holds title. Property owned before marriage, or acquired during marriage by gift, devise, bequest, descent, or inheritance, is the acquiring spouse's separate property. National (MEE/common-law states): the common-law/equitable-distribution regime treats title and equitable factors, not a community/separate dichotomy. This is the single largest Nevada departure.
B. The Community-Property Presumption and Tracing
NV Rule: All property possessed during marriage is presumed community; a spouse claiming an asset is separate bears the burden of rebutting the presumption by clear and convincing evidence, typically through tracing the asset to a separate source. Commingling separate funds with community funds, without adequate records to trace, can transmute the separate property into community property. National: title-based common-law states have no such presumption.
C. Income, Rents, Profits, and Appreciation
NV Rule: The characterization of income from separate property and of appreciation in separate property is critical. Earnings from a spouse's labor during marriage are community even if the labor enhances separate property. Appreciation in separate property that results from community labor or community funds gives the community a right of reimbursement or apportionment (the Pereira approach, allocating a fair return to separate capital with the excess to the community, or the Van Camp approach, valuing the community's services and allocating the remainder to separate property). Passive appreciation of separate property (e.g., market growth) generally remains separate. National: no analog in common-law states.
D. Management and Control
NV Rule: Each spouse generally has equal management and control of community property, but Nevada requires the joinder of both spouses to convey, encumber, or lease community real property, and certain gifts of community personal property require spousal consent. A unilateral conveyance of community real estate by one spouse is voidable. National: common-law states tie management to title.
E. Debts and Creditors
NV Rule: Community property is generally liable for debts incurred by either spouse during the marriage (including for the benefit of the community), and Nevada law allocates premarital and tort debts under specific rules. A spouse's separate property is generally reachable for that spouse's separate debts. National: common-law states determine debt liability by who incurred the obligation, without the community/separate framework.
F. Division at Divorce
NV Rule: On divorce, Nevada courts make an equal (one-half each) division of community property as the default rule (Nev. Rev. Stat. § 125.150), departing from it only for a compelling reason stated in writing (e.g., financial misconduct, waste). Separate property is confirmed to the owning spouse. National: equitable-distribution states divide all marital property by equitable (not necessarily equal) factors and do not start from a 50/50 mandate.
G. Death and Community Property
NV Rule: At death, the decedent spouse owns and may dispose by will of one-half of the community property; the surviving spouse already owns the other half. If the decedent dies intestate, the surviving spouse generally takes the decedent's half of the community (so the survivor ends up with all of it), with separate property distributed under the intestacy statute among the spouse and descendants. National: common-law states use elective-share statutes to protect the surviving spouse; community-property Nevada protects the spouse through the community-property ownership itself and therefore has no elective share.
H. Quasi-Community Property
NV Rule: Property acquired while domiciled elsewhere that would have been community property had the couple been domiciled in Nevada is treated as quasi-community property for purposes of division at divorce and, in some contexts, at death—preventing couples from defeating community-property rights by acquiring assets in a common-law state. National: no analog in common-law states.
I. Premarital Agreements
NV Rule: Nevada has adopted the Uniform Premarital Agreement Act (Nev. Rev. Stat. ch. 123A), allowing spouses to alter the community/separate characterization of property by a valid written agreement. Such agreements can opt out of the community-property regime if executed properly and not unconscionable. National: premarital agreements are recognized in common-law states too, but they operate against a different default.
ESSAY WRITING TIP: A Nevada community-property essay follows a disciplined sequence: (1) state the community-property presumption; (2) characterize each asset as community, separate, or quasi-community, using date and source of acquisition; (3) trace separate property and address commingling; (4) apply Pereira/Van Camp to appreciation of separate property enhanced by community effort; (5) divide community equally; (6) confirm separate property to its owner. Always characterize before you divide.
NEVADA BAR TIP: The most heavily tested Nevada-specific topic is community property—master tracing, commingling, the Pereira/Van Camp apportionment formulas, joinder for community real estate, quasi-community property, and the rule that the equal-division default yields only for a compelling, written reason. Remember Nevada has no elective share because the community-property half already protects the surviving spouse.
EXAMPLE: Spouse A owns a business worth $200,000 at marriage. During a ten-year marriage, A works in the business full time and it grows to $1,000,000. Under Pereira, the separate estate gets a fair rate of return on the original $200,000 and the remaining growth—attributable to A's community labor—is community property, divided equally on divorce.
V. FAMILY LAW
A. No-Fault Dissolution
NV Rule: Nevada is a no-fault state. The principal grounds are incompatibility and living separate and apart for one year, with insanity also available (Nev. Rev. Stat. § 125.010). Nevada is well known for its short residency requirement (six weeks) for divorce jurisdiction. National (MEE): majority no-fault principles, which Nevada follows, but Nevada's six-week residency is distinctively short.
B. Property Division and Support
NV Rule: Property division follows the community-property rules above—equal division of community property by default. Child support follows Nevada guidelines (recently revised to an income-based percentage model administered by the Division of Welfare and Supportive Services). Alimony is awarded on statutory factors. National: community-property division and the specific support formulas are Nevada-specific.
ESSAY WRITING TIP: On a Nevada family-law essay, the property-division analysis is a community-property analysis—do not write equitable-distribution factors. Identify the grounds (incompatibility) and then characterize and divide property under ch. 123.
NEVADA BAR TIP: Nevada's six-week residency makes it a common divorce forum; confirm domicile/intent, not mere presence, and remember that community-property characterization governs the financial outcome.
VI. WILLS, TRUSTS, AND ESTATES
A. Will Execution
NV Rule: A valid attested will requires a writing signed by the testator (or by another at the testator's direction and in the testator's presence) and signed by at least two competent witnesses in the testator's presence (Nev. Rev. Stat. § 133.040). Nevada recognizes holographic wills—a will valid without witnesses if the signature and material provisions are in the testator's handwriting (§ 133.090). Nevada also authorizes electronic wills by statute, an early and distinctive adoption. National: holographic recognition varies; Nevada's electronic-will statute is notably ahead of most states.
B. No Elective Share—Community Property Protects the Spouse
NV Rule: Because Nevada is a community-property state, it has no elective/forced share for a surviving spouse. The survivor's protection is the ownership of one-half of the community property, which the decedent cannot devise away. National (common-law states): an elective share (often one-third to one-half of the augmented estate) protects the surviving spouse; Nevada uses community-property ownership instead.
C. Intestacy
NV Rule: On intestacy, the surviving spouse takes the decedent's one-half of the community property (ending up with all of it). For separate property, the spouse's share depends on surviving descendants and parents: with one child, the spouse and child split the separate property; with multiple children, the spouse takes one-third and the children the remainder (Nev. Rev. Stat. ch. 134). National: common-law intestacy statutes do not separate community from separate property.
D. Homestead
NV Rule: Nevada provides a generous homestead exemption (Nev. Rev. Stat. ch. 115), one of the larger statutory homestead protections in the country, shielding a substantial amount of equity in a recorded homestead from most general creditors. A homestead declaration is recorded. National: homestead protection varies widely; Nevada's is among the most protective.
ESSAY WRITING TIP: On a Nevada estates essay, do not analyze an elective share—there is none. Instead, separate the decedent's devisable one-half of community property from separate property, and apply the community-property and intestacy rules accordingly. Flag holographic and electronic wills as valid forms.
NEVADA BAR TIP: Nevada is a leading trust-and-asset-protection jurisdiction—self-settled spendthrift (domestic asset protection) trusts are authorized, dynasty trusts are permitted by the abolition/extension of the rule against perpetuities for certain trusts, and the homestead exemption is large. These features drive significant estate-planning practice in the state.
VII. REAL PROPERTY
A. Recording Act
NV Rule: Nevada is a race-notice jurisdiction (Nev. Rev. Stat. § 111.325). A subsequent good-faith purchaser for value prevails over a prior unrecorded interest only if the purchaser takes without notice and records first. National: recording acts are notice, race, or race-notice; Nevada requires both good faith and first recording.
B. Adverse Possession
NV Rule: Nevada's adverse-possession period is five years, but Nevada additionally requires the adverse possessor to have paid the property taxes for the five-year period (Nev. Rev. Stat. §§ 11.070, 11.150). The tax-payment requirement is a substantial hurdle. National: periods range widely; Nevada's five-year period is short but the tax-payment condition makes successful claims rare.
C. Homestead
NV Rule: As above, Nevada's recorded homestead exemption (ch. 115) protects substantial residential equity from execution. National: Nevada's is among the most generous.
D. Foreclosure—Deeds of Trust and Nonjudicial Sale
NV Rule: Nevada lending overwhelmingly uses deeds of trust, and the dominant remedy is nonjudicial foreclosure by the trustee's power of sale under Nev. Rev. Stat. ch. 107, following statutory notice of default and notice of sale timelines. Judicial foreclosure is available but uncommon. Nevada limits deficiency judgments by statute, and a one-action rule and anti-deficiency protections (especially for purchase-money loans on residences) restrict lender recovery beyond the property. National: states split judicial/nonjudicial; Nevada is a deed-of-trust, nonjudicial state with strong anti-deficiency rules.
ESSAY WRITING TIP: On a Nevada real-property essay, identify the recording act as race-notice (good faith + record first), apply the five-year-plus-taxes adverse-possession rule, and analyze foreclosure under the deed-of-trust nonjudicial framework with attention to anti-deficiency limits.
NEVADA BAR TIP: The tax-payment element of adverse possession defeats most claims—always check who paid the taxes. And in any post-foreclosure deficiency dispute, screen for the one-action rule and the purchase-money anti-deficiency protections, which can wholly bar a deficiency.
VIII. TORTS
A. Comparative Negligence—Modified (51% bar)
NV Rule: Nevada applies modified comparative negligence under the 51% rule (Nev. Rev. Stat. § 41.141). A plaintiff may recover only if the plaintiff's negligence is not greater than the combined negligence of the defendants against whom recovery is sought—recovery is barred at 51% or more but permitted (reduced) at 50% or less. National (MBE): the MBE default is pure comparative negligence. Nevada departs: it is a modified 51% jurisdiction.
B. Joint and Several Liability
NV Rule: Nevada has largely abolished joint and several liability, making defendants severally liable for their proportionate share of fault, subject to statutory exceptions (e.g., concerted action, certain product-liability, hazardous-waste, and intentional-tort situations where joint liability is retained). National: Nevada's several-liability default is a meaningful departure.
C. Dram Shop / Social Host
NV Rule: Nevada does not impose dram-shop or social-host civil liability on those who serve alcohol to an adult who then causes injury; the Nevada Legislature has placed responsibility on the consumer (Nev. Rev. Stat. § 41.1305), with a narrow exception for knowingly serving a minor. National: many states impose dram-shop liability; Nevada is restrictive.
D. Damage Caps
NV Rule: Nevada caps noneconomic damages in medical-malpractice (professional-negligence) actions at a statutory figure (Nev. Rev. Stat. § 41A.035, with scheduled increases). Nevada also caps punitive damages generally at a multiple of compensatory damages (with exceptions for certain conduct) and caps recovery against governmental entities. National: many states cap med-mal noneconomic damages; Nevada's cap and its punitive-damages multiplier are distinctive.
ESSAY WRITING TIP: The MBE default is pure comparative negligence. On a Nevada essay, apply the modified 51% bar (recovery only if not greater than the defendants' combined fault), several liability, the absence of dram-shop liability for adults, and the med-mal noneconomic cap.
NEVADA BAR TIP: In Nevada multi-defendant litigation, several liability means each defendant pays only its share—settlement strategy turns on allocating fault, not on a deep-pocket defendant paying the whole judgment. And remember there is no adult dram-shop claim, so an intoxicated-driver case targets the driver.
EXAMPLE: A plaintiff is found 50% at fault for a $100,000 injury. In Nevada the plaintiff recovers $50,000 (not barred). At 51% fault, the plaintiff recovers nothing.
IX. CONTRACTS AND UCC
A. Statute of Frauds and UCC
NV Rule: Nevada's Statute of Frauds (Nev. Rev. Stat. § 111.220) follows the familiar categories—land, contracts not performable within one year, suretyship, contracts in consideration of marriage—and, under the UCC, sales of goods of $500 or more. Nevada has adopted the Uniform Commercial Code (Nev. Rev. Stat. tit. 8). National (MEE): UCC questions are tested against the uniform text, which Nevada substantially follows.
ESSAY WRITING TIP: Contracts and UCC essays are pure majority/UCC law—Nevada offers essentially no departures here. Apply the Restatement (Second) and the UCC straight; reserve your Nevada-specific energy for community property and real property.
NEVADA BAR TIP: When perfecting an Article 9 security interest in Nevada, file with the Secretary of State; substantive priority rules are uniform. Watch for community-property characterization of the collateral where a married debtor is involved.
X. BUSINESS ENTITIES
A. A Leading Incorporation State
NV Rule: Nevada is a prominent business-formation jurisdiction, marketing itself (with Delaware) as corporation- and LLC-friendly. The Nevada corporate code (Nev. Rev. Stat. ch. 78) and LLC act (ch. 86) offer strong management-friendly features: broad indemnification, statutory protection of directors and officers from personal liability absent fraud or knowing violation, no state corporate income tax, and strong charging-order protection for LLC and limited-partnership interests. National (MEE): tested against MBCA/RUPA/RULLCA generalities; Nevada's code has its own management-protective flavor and is not a verbatim MBCA adoption.
ESSAY WRITING TIP: Business-entity MEE answers apply the MBCA and uniform acts. On a Nevada-specific essay, you may need Nevada's strong director/officer liability protection and charging-order rules—but apply general majority fiduciary-duty principles unless the question localizes.
NEVADA BAR TIP: Nevada's charging-order-exclusive-remedy rule for LLC and LP interests is a major asset-protection draw; in entity and creditor work, know that a member's creditor is generally limited to a charging order and cannot foreclose on or seize the membership interest itself.
XI. PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY
A. Nevada Rules of Professional Conduct vs. ABA Model Rules
NV Rule: Nevada has adopted the Nevada Rules of Professional Conduct, modeled on the ABA Model Rules with state-specific modifications, enforced by the State Bar of Nevada. The MPRE tests the ABA Model Rules, so for that exam the ABA standards control. On a Nevada essay, Nevada's specific trust-accounting (IOLTA) and advertising rules may be tested directly. National: the MPRE applies the ABA Model Rules.
ESSAY WRITING TIP: The MPRE applies the ABA Model Rules. On a Nevada-specific PR essay, apply the Nevada Rules of Professional Conduct, which closely track but are not identical to the Model Rules.
NEVADA BAR TIP: Nevada's trust-account and advertising rules are actively enforced; master the Nevada IOLTA requirements and the state's advertising-compliance regime before opening a practice.
XII. CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE NOTES
A. Substantive Criminal Law
NV Rule: Nevada's criminal code (Nev. Rev. Stat. tit. 15) grades homicide, theft, and other offenses by statute, differing in labeling from common-law and MBE categories. Nevada retains the death penalty. Nevada's gaming and related offenses are distinctive given the state's regulated gaming industry. National (MBE): tests common-law and Model Penal Code principles, not Nevada's statutory grading.
B. Search, Seizure, and Confessions
NV Rule: Nevada generally applies the federal constitutional floor under the Fourth and Fifth Amendments, occasionally construing the Nevada Constitution in parallel. National (MBE): the federal constitutional floor governs the MBE.
ESSAY WRITING TIP: Criminal MBE questions apply common-law/MPC definitions and the federal constitutional floor. On a Nevada essay, you may apply Nevada's statutory offense definitions if the question localizes.
NEVADA BAR TIP: Nevada's gaming-related and regulatory offenses are unique to the state's economy; be aware of them in any criminal-practice context, though the MBE will not test them.
Exam note: Legal ethics is tested on every Nevada bar exam (Nevada Rules of Professional Conduct), usually woven into another essay — see Professional Responsibility below.
XIII. CONFLICT OF LAWS
NV Rule: Conflict of Laws is a tested Nevada essay subject and interacts with Nevada’s community-property regime and its role as a divorce and incorporation forum. Nevada follows the Restatement (Second) most-significant-relationship approach for torts and contracts; situs law governs real property; marital-property characterization follows the spouses’ domicile at acquisition — the basis for Nevada’s quasi-community property.
Domicile, marriage & judgments. Nevada’s six-week residency makes domicile (presence + intent) a recurring issue; Nevada honors valid out-of-state marriages by place of celebration and enforces sister-state judgments under full faith and credit. Essay tip: when facts cross states, characterize the issue, then apply the most-significant-relationship test (situs for land, quasi-community for out-of-state acquisitions).
XIV. REMEDIES
NV Rule: Remedies is a listed Nevada subject, usually tested embedded in Contracts, Torts, Property, or Community Property. Nevada applies majority principles (expectation/reliance/restitution; compensatory and capped punitive damages) with Nevada overlays: the punitive cap (NRS 42.005), the med-mal noneconomic cap (NRS 41A.035), and real-property anti-deficiency / one-action limits.
Equitable remedies. Specific performance (presumed for land), injunctions (four-factor test), rescission/reformation, and restitution via constructive trusts and equitable liens — the latter recurring in community-property tracing. Essay tip: after liability, work the remedy — measure of damages, equitable prerequisites, and any Nevada cap.
XV. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (NEVADA OVERLAY)
NV Rule: Constitutional Law is a listed Nevada essay subject, tested as federal doctrine (state action, scrutiny tiers, dormant Commerce Clause, individual rights). The Nevada twist: the Nevada Constitution can supply independent, sometimes broader, protection — flag a state-constitutional argument where it would give greater protection than the federal floor.
XVI. NEVADA DISTINCTIONS CHECKLIST
- Not a UBE state—Nevada administers its own exam, transitioning to the Nevada Plan; Nevada law is tested directly; a UBE score does not transfer in.
- Civil Procedure—two-year tort SOL; six-year written-contract SOL; strong anti-SLAPP statute with fee-shifting; action commences by filing.
- Evidence—own Nevada Evidence Code; Nevada (Hallmark) expert-reliability standard, not a formal Daubert adoption.
- Community Property—property acquired by labor during marriage is community (equal halves); separate = premarital, gift, devise, inheritance; community presumption rebutted by clear-and-convincing tracing; Pereira/Van Camp apportion appreciation; joinder required to convey community realty; quasi-community property; equal division at divorce absent a compelling written reason; UPAA premarital agreements.
- Family Law—no-fault (incompatibility); six-week residency; community-property division.
- Estates—two witnesses; holographic AND electronic wills valid; no elective share (community property protects the spouse); generous homestead; leading asset-protection-trust jurisdiction.
- Real Property—race-notice recording act; five-year adverse possession plus tax payment; deed-of-trust nonjudicial foreclosure with strong anti-deficiency/one-action protections; large homestead.
- Torts—modified comparative negligence (51% bar); several liability (joint-and-several largely abolished); no adult dram-shop liability; med-mal noneconomic cap; punitive-damages multiplier cap.
- Contracts/UCC—UCC adopted; standard Statute of Frauds; few departures.
- Business Entities—leading incorporation state; management-protective ch. 78/86; charging-order-exclusive remedy for LLC/LP interests; no corporate income tax.
- Professional Responsibility—Nevada RPC based on ABA Model Rules; actively enforced trust-account/advertising rules.
- Criminal—statutory grading; death penalty; gaming-related offenses distinctive.