Honorable Richard H. Bryan

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Former U.S. Senator Richard H. Bryan is a shareholder at Lionel Sawyer & Collins and is a member of the Firm's Executive Committee. His practice focuses on government relations at the federal, state and local levels, particularly in the area of public land use issues. He is the Firm's designated representative for Lex Mundi, State Capital Group, and Business Counsel, Inc., global organizations of major law firms. Based in the Firm's Las Vegas office, Senator Bryan also spends time in the Firm's other offices in Reno and Carson City.


A native Nevadan, Senator Bryan began his legal career in 1964 as a Deputy District Attorney in Clark County (Las Vegas), Nevada. In 1966, he was named Clark County's first Public Defender. In 1968 Richard Bryan was elected to the Nevada State Assembly and re-elected to the State Assembly in 1970. In 1972, he was elected to the State Senate and re-elected in 1976. The former prosecutor won his first statewide election as Nevada's Attorney General where he played a major role in successfully defending Nevada's gaming regulatory structure in the Federal Courts. In 1982, he was elected to the first of two terms as Governor. In 1988 he was elected to the first of two terms in the U.S. Senate. Senator Bryan is included in The Best Lawyers in America for Government Relations Law and has an AV rating in the Martindale-Hubbell directory.


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