Las Vegas Defense Attorney
Steven B. Wolfson
Working Hard to Defend You
Steven B. Wolfson, a native of Southern California, earned his law degree from California Western School of Law in San Diego, in 1980. He has been a licensed attorney since 1981, and has practiced his entire career in the area of criminal law.
Steve began his career as a law clerk in the District Attorney’s Office, and quickly moved up to Deputy District Attorney at the Clark County District Attorney’s Office. He eventually transferred his experience to the United States Attorney’s Office as a Federal Prosecutor. For more than six years, Steve prosecuted both state and federal cases.
In 1987, Steve left government work and began his career in private practice as a criminal defense attorney. He has handled many of Southern Nevada’s most high profile cases, including the defense of police officers charged with felony offenses. One of the most chronicled cases involved police officers charged with the death of a person while in custody. Steve was successful at obtaining an acquittal for his client.
Steve’s trial experience includes over 70 felony jury trials, 250 plus preliminary hearings, 200 plus misdemeanor trials, and hundreds of miscellaneous evidentiary and pre-trial hearings.
Steve has always been active in his profession. He has served on the Board of Governors of the State Bar of Nevada, and on the Judicial Ethics and Campaign Election Practices Committee. Steve was Chairman of the Southern Nevada Disciplinary Board and served as a member for seven years prior to that. He also chaired the Nevada Ethics 2000 Committee, a blue ribbon committee established by the Nevada Supreme Court, to review and bring up-to-date all Supreme Court Rules involving attorney conduct.
He has served as a Pro Tempore Justice of the Peace in the North Las Vegas Justice Court, as well as the Las Vegas Municipal Courts. He was also an Inquest Hearing Officer for the Clark County Coroner’s Office. Steve is currently a member of the Latin Chamber of Commerce, as well as the Asian Chamber of Commerce.
Above, Steve and Mayor Oscar Goodman, a former criminal defense attorney himself, attend a City function.Steve Wolfson is also a Las Vegas City Councilman, a part-time position. In a historic special election in June 2004, Steve was elected to the Las Vegas City Council. He represents Ward 2, which encompasses the westernmost portions of the city, including parts of Summerlin. After running for two consequitive terms unnapposed, his current term ends in June of 2013. Steve has been married for 26 years to Judge Jackie Glass who is the new host of the syndicated television show Swift Justice With Jackie Glass. They have two daughters in college, Rachel and Rebecca.
Las Vegas Defense Attorney
Patrick E. McDonald
Protecting the Rights of the Accused
Patrick E. McDonald, “Pat”, is a third generation Nevadan and a second generation Las Vegan. Pat earned his law degree from the University of Arizona in 1988. Pat was licensed to practice law in Nevada that same year. From 1988 until January of 1989 he served as Law Clerk to the Honorable Joseph S. Pavlikowski, here in Clark County, Las Vegas, Nevada, for the Eighth Judicial District Court. In January of 1989, he went to work as a Deputy Public Defender with the Clark County Public Defender’s Office. Pat spent three years at the Public Defender’s Office representing people accused of every type of crime from misdemeanors such as Domestic Battery and DUI, to felonies such as Sexual Assault and Murder.
In 1992, Pat left the Clark County Public Defender’s Office and began his career in private practice. Upon entering private practice Pat was appointed by various Judges of the Eighth Judicial District Court to defend people accused of Murder. Over that first five years of private practice Pat represented approximately twelve people accused of murder by the Clark County District Attorney’s Office. In each of those murder cases the State of Nevada was seeking the Death Penalty. Only one of Pat’s clients received a verdict of Death from a jury. That verdict was later overturned on appeal after arguments made and argued by Pat in front of the Nevada Supreme Court.
Pat has also represented several other people accused of felony crimes at their jury trials. In addition, Pat has represented people accused of crimes countless times at preliminary hearings, misdemeanor trials, parole and probation revocations, evidentiary hearings and sentencing hearings.
Pat has not only represented people accused of crimes here in Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, but, also in the outlying counties of Nevada, including, Nye, Lincoln, Elko, Eureka and Reno, Nevada. In addition to handling criminal matters, Pat also handled matters for clients in the areas of family law, civil litigation, personal injury and administrative law (transportation, limousine and taxi cab companies). For the past four years, Pat has limited his practice to defending people accused of crimes.
Pat is admitted to practice before all of the State Courts in Nevada, the United States District Court for the District of Nevada, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals located in San Francisco, California.
To speak to Pat about a matter in the area of criminal law, call the law offices of Steven B. Wolfson, (702) 385-7227, or you can call Pat directly by dialing (702) 280-7715.
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