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An honors graduate of UC-Berkeley and Harvard Law School, Neil Shouse served five years as Deputy District Attorney for Los Angeles County. He prosecuted more than 60 criminal trials, and handled more than 1,000 evidentiary hearings. He earned a reputation as one of the toughest and most successful trial prosecutors, with an astounding 96% success rate in felony criminal jury trials to verdict.

As a trial prosecutor, Mr. Shouse's cases ranged from DUIs and drug charges to complex, high profile murders. He worked in close partnership with police, detectives, the California Highway Patrol, criminalists and fellow prosecutors.

Among his cases was the successful prosecution of Shadae Schmidt, a college student who shot and killed her mother and then staged a fake robbery scene. Shadae Schmidt was defended at the trial by Michael Jackson lawyer Thomas Messereau.

Mr. Shouse frequently speaks as a guest legal commentator on national television. He has appeared on Good Morning America, CNN, Court TV, Fox News Channel and Public Television.

Prior to serving as a trial prosecutor, Mr. Shouse was a litigator for several of the nation's top law firms, including the global law firm Sidley Austin Brown & Wood. In that role, he represented such clients as AT&T, Microsoft, Metropolitan Life, Western Union and KPMG.

Donald C. Kudler was born and raised in Los Angeles where his father presently lives. His brother and sister live in Arizona. He later moved to San Francisco to attend law school and then to Las Vegas to start his career as a lawyer in 1993. In 2005 Mr. Kudler married Ondine Darcyl, a jazz vocalist who grew up in Argentina and moved to the USA to go to law school. The couple lives in Las Vegas with their two dogs.

Mr. Kudler graduated from Lowell High School in Whittier, California in 1978. In his senior year, he won first place in the 1978 Hughes Aircraft Business Competition Day Accounting I contest over students from high schools across Orange County, California. As a teen, Donald Kudler was active in B’nai B’rith Youth Organization ( BBYO ) and to this day maintains friendships and business relationships with men and women he met during that time. During high school and college, Donald Kudler worked for his father’s outdoor advertising company becoming involved in every aspect of the business from interaction with government agencies to apply for permits, to the manufacture, installation, sales and design of signs and the cleaning of the premises.

Donald Kudler obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Business Management in 1983 and a Masters of Business Administration in 1987, both from California State University, Fullerton. Both degrees are with an emphasis in Management Information Systems. In 1993, Mr. Kudler earned his Juris Doctorate from Hastings College of the Law where he joined Fraternity Phi Alpha Delta. During law school Mr. Kudler represented indigent clients in mediation at the San Francisco Neighborhood Legal Assistance Foundation. Right after graduation, he moved to Las Vegas, got admitted to the Nevada Bar and started his first job as a lawyer with Robert Massi working in the areas of estate planning, contracts, personal injury, and advising clients in a variety of legal areas. In 1994, Donald Kudler started to work for Albert Massi primarily as a litigator representing injured persons in personal injury cases. He was also advised in transactional law and civil litigation. In 2004, when Albert Massi retired, Donald Kudler and Allen Cap created the law firm of Cap and Kudler.

Donald Kudler writes a blog on litigation and related issues as well as things that may come to his mind from time to time. Donald's Blog is called Vegas Litigator.

Donald's firm's website can be found at capandkudler.com.

For fun, Donald Kudler finds new Latin rock bands on the internet and reads fiction, about Kaballah and Argentine history. He is an amateur photographer – his photos of local courthouses are displayed on this website. With his wife, he enjoys skiing, collecting art, traveling to Buenos Aires and Punta del Este as well as exercising and playing ball with the dogs in their back yard. The couple enjoy spending time with friends and family.

The Law Office of Dawn Papaeliou, P.C., is a debt relief agency committed to helping financially distressed individuals obtain a fresh start through bankruptcy relief. This Firm offers personal, discreet, and affordable legal representation.

THIS FIRM IS YOUR ALTERNATIVE TO THE LAS VEGAS BANKRUPTCY MILL!

All consultations are FREE and COMPREHENSIVE. You can expect personal and thorough legal advice without further obligation from this Firm. Consultations typically last one hour or more because you deserve more than canned or boilerplate advice. An open and honest attorney is a better advocate than one who withholds information to pressure people into paying first for services. All too often at other law offices, paying clients then fall off the radar in the law office's perpetual search for new paying clients.

At the Law Office of Dawn Papaeliou, P.C., clients irrespective of payment are the number one priority always! Your case is handled at every stage by an attorney and will not be handed off to a paralegal or legal assistant. The attorney also returns phone calls promptly and personally.

Your case should not be just another file. This Firm offers INDIVIDUAL FILING DATES because your case should be filed when you need it filed. This Firm does not batch file cases so your case is filed when most convenient for you. With Individual Filing Dates, clients also receive the attorney's undivided attention at the creditors' meeting. Other firms have scheduled batch filing dates and will shelve your case until their next filing date. Don't get lost in the crowd, you deserve better.

This Firm offers LOW flat fees to all clients and gladly offers PRO BONO services to qualifying low-income individuals.

At the Law Office of Dawn Papaeliou, P.C., your case is not just another file. This Firm has a LIMITED CASELOAD to ensure that your case gets the attention that it requires.

Avoid being a victim of the local bankruptcy mills. Quite simply, the Law Office of Dawn Papaeliou, P.C., offers BETTER SERVICE FOR LESS!

PROFILE OF DAWN M. PAPAELIOU, ESQ.
Dawn M. Papaeliou graduated with a Juris Doctorate from the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas in May 2002. Ms. Papaeliou passed the State Bar Exam on her first attempt and was admitted to practice law in the State of Nevada in December 2002.

Dawn Papaeliou has represented hundreds of debtors in chapter 7 and chapter 13 bankruptcies as an associate attorney at two local law firms. She also acquired extensive bankruptcy experience while working for local chapter 7 bankruptcy trustee Yvette Weinstein from 2003 to 2005. Ms. Papaeliou assisted the Trustee in the administration of chapter 7 bankruptcy estates, liquidation of assets, and distribution of estate funds to creditors.

Ms. Papaeliou operated the Law Office of D. M. Papaeliou, P.C., and provided legal services through the City of Las Vegas Senior Citizen Law Project in 2006, until she joined the Department of Justice Office of the United States Trustee in Reno, Nevada. While employed with the Office of the United States Trustee, she investigated the eligibility of debtors in chapter 7 cases, examined chapter 7 debtors under oath at creditors’ meetings, and pursued the dismissal and/or conversion of cases to chapter 13 relief. Dawn Papaeliou also provided oversight of chapter 7 bankruptcy trustees, monitored chapter 11 reorganizations in the Reno area, and otherwise ensured compliance with the United States Bankruptcy Code.

In late May 2007, Ms. Papaeliou returned to the Las Vegas area as debtor's counsel. Today, Ms. Papaeliou continues her dedication to debtors' issues as a bankruptcy lawyer for the Law Office of Dawn Papaeliou, P.C. Dawn Papaeliou also continues her commitment to the Las Vegas community as an active member of Habitat for Humanity and Clark County READS.

Don C. Tingey was born in Centerville, Utah, in 1935. He attended Utah State University and University of Utah, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1962. He also attended George Washington University, where he received a Juris Doctorate degree in 1966. He was admitted to the Utah State Bar in 1967, and the State Bar of Nevada in 1969. Don is a member of the Clark County Bar Association, the Nevada Justice Association, the American Bar Association, and the American Association for Justice.

Bruce D. Tingey was born in Alexandria, Virginia, in 1963. He attended University of Nevada at Las Vegas and Brigham Young University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1988. He also attended California Western School of Law, where he received a Juris Doctorate degree in 1991. He was admitted to the California State Bar in 1991 and the State Bar of Nevada in 1993. Bruce is a member of the Clark County Bar Association, the Nevada Law Foundation, and the Nevada Justice Association.

Welcome to The Law Office of Craig B. Friedberg, Esq., a Las Vegas, NV law firm dedicated to the protection of consumer rights against abusive and illegal practices by debt collectors, creditors, credit reporting agencies, car dealerships and lenders.

We represent consumers in civil lawsuits filed against debt collectors, credit reporting agencies, creditors and lenders who violate state and federal consumer protection laws. Our policy is you won't pay any attorney's fees unless we recover on your behalf, although you will be responsible for any other costs in your lawsuit.

The consumer rights afforded to you under the federal and state consumer protection laws mean that those who violated your rights will ultimately be made to pay your attorney's fees, if your case is successful. Although no attorney can guarantee results, and we do not, we only take cases where we feel the law has clearly been violated and you have a reasonably good chance of recovering.

Our approach to consumer rights means that you as a consumer have access to experienced legal counsel, without having to pay large up front attorney's fees of $250-$350 per hour. We are careful to select cases that we truly believe have merit and for which we can get a recovery for you.

Team Hammond is a brother and sister attorney team who take every case seriously. Brook Hammond is a part of the exclusive Million Dollar Advocate forum and has been a part Nevada’s history as Miss Nevada USA 1995 and a motivational youth speaker since 1991. She knows what you are experiencing first hand, as she has been injured in an automobile accident and a product defect incident. Brook is licensed to practice law in both Nevada and Utah. Tyler Hammond obtained a law degree from the University of San Diego and an undergraduate degree from Brigham Young University in the field of Business Management with an emphasis in Finance. He is tri-lingual (English, Portuguese, and Spanish), and has a strong business background as an entrepreneur before joining Brook.