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Nancy B. Rapoport is the Special Counsel to the President of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.  She is also the Garman Turner Gordon Professor of Law at the William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and is an Affiliate Professor of Business Law and Ethics in the Lee Business School at UNLV.  After receiving her B.A.,

summa cum laude, from Rice University in 1982 and her J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1985, she clerked for the Honorable Joseph T. Sneed III on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and then practiced law (primarily bankruptcy law) with Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco from 1986-1991.  She started her academic career at The^*Ohio State University College of Law in 1991, and she moved from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor with tenure in 1995 to Associate Dean for Student Affairs (1996) and Professor (1998) (just as she left Ohio State to become Dean and Professor of Law at the University of Nebraska College of Law).  
 

Her specialties are bankruptcy ethics, ethics in governance, law firm behavior, and the depiction of lawyers in popular culture.  Among her published works are Enron and Other Corporate Fiascos: The Corporate Scandal Reader 2d (Nancy B. Rapoport, Jeffrey D. Van Niel & Bala G. Dharan, eds.), which addresses the question of why we never seem to learn from prior corporate scandals, Law School Survival Manual: From LSAT to Bar Exam, co-authored with Jeffrey D. Van Niel (Aspen Publishers 2010), and Law Firm Job Survival Manual:  From First Interview to Partnership, also co-authored with Jeffrey D. Van Niel (Wolters Kluwer 2014).  She is admitted to the bars of the states of California, Ohio, Nebraska, Texas, and Nevada and of the United States Supreme Court.  In 2001, she was elected to membership in the American Law Institute, and in 2002, she received a Distinguished Alumna Award from Rice University.  She is the Secretary of the Board of Directors of the National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement (the Mob Museum).  She is also a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy.  In 2009, the Association of Media and Entertainment Counsel presented her with the Public Service Counsel Award at the 4

^th Annual Counsel of the Year Awards.  Her most recent fee examiner work has been as the Independent Member of the Fee Review Committee in

In re Caesars Entertainment Operating Co., Inc., U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of Illinois (2015-present).