MICHAEL A.T. PAGNI, Attorney at Law, Chairman

Mr. Pagni is a partner in the Reno office of McDonald Carano Wilson LLP. His practice focuses primarily on real estate and water law, corporate and transactional law, administrative law and government relations. Mr. Pagni has served and continues to serve as outside counsel to several large public agencies in Northern Nevada, and served as general counsel to Governor Jim Gibbons in his 2006 gubernatorial campaign. Prior to law school Mr. Pagni served as a legislative extern for Senator Harry Reid in Washington, D.C. During law school, he served as a law clerk for the Honorable Melvin Brunetti, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the Honorable Howard D. McKibben, former Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada.

Mr. Pagni is admitted to practice in all Nevada state courts, as well as the United States District Court for the District of Nevada and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles, where he earned a varsity letter in football, and received his J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of Law. He is a third generation Nevadan. Mr. Pagni and his wife, Tiffinay have two children.

Mr. Pagni is a member of the American Bar Association; State Bar of Nevada, Washoe County Bar Association; Bruce R. Thompson Chapter of the American Inns of Court and is a life member of the National Registry of Who’s Who, 2000.

He was elected to serve as Vice-Chairman of the Standing Committee in March of 2010.   In December of 2011, he was elected to serve as the Chairman of the Standing Committee effective January 1, 2012.

Mr. Pagni was appointed by the State Bar of Nevada in January, 2009 and reappointed in 2011.  His term expires in December, 2012.