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February 07, 2006 |

Have the Tables Turned for Online Gambling?

Although online gambling is illegal in the United States, you'd never know it by looking at the numbers. Last year alone 7.8 million Americans logged on to Internet gambling sites. And with the online gambling industry banking almost $12 billion in revenue in 2005, some U.S. casinos think the time has come to legalize Internet gambling and cash in -- a position that was considered all but unthinkable until recently.
8 minute read
March 09, 2008 |

Compulsive gambler chases $20M long-shot lawsuit against casinos

She was an ambitious lawyer and TV commentator who starting going to Atlantic City casinos to relax, and soon was getting high-roller treatment that included limousines whisking her to the resort.
5 minute read
October 05, 2001 |

Doubling Down

Slot machines rattle and ring and gamblers crowd around the roulette and craps tables. A blackjack dealer silently doles out his last card and awaits the player's next call. Just another day at a glitzy Las Vegas casino? Nope. Through the magic of the Internet and video technology, the dealer only appears to be in the middle of a bustling casino floor. Welcome to the future of Internet gaming.
7 minute read
June 22, 2013 |

The Score: Ropes Reps Pats' Hernandez Amid Murder Probe

Ropes & Gray has been retained by New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, who faces charges of obstruction of justice in connection with a Boston-area murder investigation. Elsewhere in our latest look at sports and the law: Dickinson Wright, Gibson Dunn, Miller Canfield, Norton Rose Fulbright are advising on multimillion-dollar arena deals in Detroit, El Paso, and Las Vegas; and a Gordon & Rees partner gets involved in Major League Baseball's Biogenesis drama and Jay-Z's sports agency start-up.
13 minute read
November 29, 2011 |

Boyd ends deal to sell Dania Jai-Alai

Casino operator Boyd Gaming Corp. is ending its deal to sell Dania Jai-Alai to Dania Entertainment LLC because the company was unable to close on the transaction within the time period required by the agreement.
1 minute read
June 05, 2013 |

Nevada high court to hear arguments on Vegas hotel

LAS VEGAS (AP) - The fate of a flawed hotel that never opened at the glittery CityCenter development on the Las Vegas Strip is due for arguments Tuesday before the Nevada Supreme Court.
2 minute read
June 01, 1999 |

Viva Las Venice

Las Vegas is transforming itself into The Land of Wildest Dreams, where mega-resorts recreate world-class cities out of concrete and neon. Law firms like L.A.'s Latham & Watkins have played a key role in engineering the financing for this new breed of super-resort. Recently, Latham arranged a unique financing package for the recently opened Venetian Resort Hotel and Casino, a $1.5 billion project built on the site where the landmark Sands Hotel once stood.
5 minute read
June 02, 2011 |

Luggage maker Samsonite plans IPO in Hong Kong

Samsonite International S.A., the world's biggest luggage company, plans to raise up to $1.5 billion in a Hong Kong initial public offering, joining a slew of foreign companies cashing in on investor interest in China.
3 minute read
March 03, 2008 |

Pellicano defendant's firm weathers the storm

Christensen Glaser, a 100-lawyer firm based in Los Angeles, just bagged a new client in one of the most high-profile cases in town: its own managing partner, Terry Christensen. He goes to trial in a couple months on allegations that he paid $100,000 to celebrity sleuth Anthony Pellicano to wiretap the ex-wife of billionaire Kirk Kerkorian during a paternity dispute.
3 minute read
August 01, 2005 |

Betting on Vegas

Tall, handsome, and corporate, Patrick Byrne is not the Las Vegas lawyer of lore. He's not famous like Oscar Goodman, who, according to his official biography, showed up in the mid-sixties with $87 and a University of Pennsylvania law degree, and proceeded, according to his unofficial biography, to become counsel to Meyer Lansky and Tony the Ant Spilotro, before getting elected mayor. Nor is he infamous like the fictional Tom Hagen, who moved to Vegas on behalf of his one and only client who wanted to
18 minute read

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