WATSON ROUNDS v. EIGHTH JUD. DIST. CT.

No. 65632.

358 P.3d 228 (2015)

WATSON ROUNDS, P.C., Petitioner, v. The EIGHTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF the STATE of Nevada, In and for the COUNTY OF CLARK; and the Honorable Elizabeth Goff Gonzalez, District Judge, Respondents, and Himelfarb & Associates, LLC, a Nevada Limited Liability Company; and Bruce Himelfarb, an individual, Real Parties in Interest.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

September 24, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lemons, Grundy & Eisenberg and Robert L. Eisenberg , Reno, for Petitioner.

Kolesar & Leatham, Chtd., and Matthew T. Dushoff and Daniel S. Cereghino , Las Vegas, for Real Parties in Interest.

Before the Court En Banc.


OPINION

NRS 7.085 allows a district court to make an attorney personally liable for the attorney fees and costs an opponent incurs when the attorney "[f]ile[s], maintain[s] or defend[s] a civil action ... [that] is not well-grounded in fact or is not warranted...

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