If it wasn’t for John Mowbray, Spencer Fane may have never been able to open an office in Las Vegas. Neither would any other out-of-town firm, for that matter.
As president of the State Bar of Nevada in the early 2000s, Mowbray led an effort to modernize rules forbidding law firms whose name partners were not licensed lawyers in Nevada from setting up shop in the Silver State. The rule once led Snell & Wilmer, a Phoenix-based Am Law 200 firm, to be known in Las Vegas for a time as Curtis & Associates.
