Stephen Paddock, the retired accountant who killed at least 58 people at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas on Sunday night, was “slovenly” and “didn’t always make sense,” according to a lawyer whose firm ran across the shooter years earlier in an injury case he brought against another casino.

Martin “Marty” Kravitz, managing partner at Las Vegas-based Kravitz, Schnitzer & Johnson, represented Cosmopolitan Hotels & Resorts Inc. in a case Paddock brought alleging he slipped and was injured inside the casino. Kravitz told ALM that he spoke with the associate who handled the case, now at another firm, after getting calls from the media at 2 a.m. about the case.

This content has been archived. It is available through our partners, LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law.

To view this content, please continue to their sites.

Not a Lexis Subscriber?
Subscribe Now

Not a Bloomberg Law Subscriber?
Subscribe Now

Why am I seeing this?

LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law are third party online distributors of the broad collection of current and archived versions of ALM's legal news publications. LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law customers are able to access and use ALM's content, including content from the National Law Journal, The American Lawyer, Legaltech News, The New York Law Journal, and Corporate Counsel, as well as other sources of legal information.

For questions call 1-877-256-2472 or contact us at [email protected]