Saltzman Mugan Dushoff, PLLC

Focus and practice areas

Saltzman Mugan Dushoff, PLLC is a business law firm in Las Vegas. Its work centers on matters governed by Nevada law. The firm represents local, national, and international business clients. That mix points to a practice built around companies.

Corporate and transactional work

Corporate law sits at the front of the list. The firm handles business formation, organization, and dissolution. It also works on mergers and acquisitions and contract matters. For a company entering Nevada, these are the routine steps of getting a legal entity running and, later, of buying, selling, or winding one down.

A merger or acquisition usually moves through a letter of intent, due diligence, and a closing with signed agreements. Business formation, at the other end, starts with a filing that creates the entity and sets its ownership. The firm lists both, which covers a company across its life.

Other areas the firm names

The firm names liquor law and privilege licensing, banking and trust company law, and the formation of trust companies. It also lists securities law, tax law, real estate, and trust and estate matters such as probate. In my opinion, that spread reads like a firm meant to be a single stop for a business and its owners.

A few areas point toward disputes and distress. The firm lists creditors rights, bankruptcy, and reorganization, along with employment law and insurance defense. Those are the matters a company reaches for when a deal sours or a claim lands.

Trust and estate work and probate share a common thread. Probate is the court process that confirms a will, settles debts, and passes property to heirs after a death. A firm that also forms trust companies can handle both the planning and the administration of an estate.

How the team is built

The firm organizes its lawyers into shareholders, associates, and of counsel. Matthew Saltzman is the managing shareholder. The shareholder group also includes Joseph Mugan, Joel Schwarz, Cliff Capdevielle, Matthew Dushoff, Richard Galin, and Ryan Saxe.

The firm lists Eric Beal, Brianna Dougherty, and Natice Locke as associates. Michael Davidson, Elizabeth Friedman, and Michael Roberson hold of counsel roles. The of counsel tier often brings in senior lawyers who work with a firm on particular matters without an ownership stake.

The firm describes its start plainly. Its attorneys had practiced together in Las Vegas for more than a decade before forming the current firm. The site does not state a founding year. It describes a group with a shared working history.

The attorneys and their training

Several lawyers publish their schooling and their focus. Matthew Saltzman earned a BA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and a JD from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. His corporate practice leans toward financial institution work and liquor law, with administrative law and federal regulation alongside.

Joseph Mugan earned a BSBA from Creighton University in 2001 and a JD from the William S. Boyd School of Law in 2004. His practice covers corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, and commercial transactions. He also works on financing, franchise law, banking, real estate, and licensing.

Matthew Dushoff earned a BS in marketing from the University of Arizona in 1987 and a JD from its James E. Rogers College of Law in 1990. His work spans administrative and regulatory law, liquor law and privilege licensing, and complex civil litigation. He also handles health care matters.

Michael Roberson holds a bachelor of science and a juris doctor, both from the University of Kansas. His practice focuses on administrative law, federal regulation, business, and real estate. That pairing lines up with the regulatory side of the firm.

Regulated industries and licensing

Several of the firm's areas touch industries that answer to state regulators. Liquor law and privilege licensing is one. Gaming law is another, and both carry weight in a Nevada market where such licenses do.

Privilege licensing generally runs through a local board or commission. An applicant files, discloses ownership, and often appears at a public hearing before a vote. Renewals and transfers follow their own timelines. Counsel in this area usually prepares the paperwork and represents the applicant at the hearing. I offer that as general background.

Banking and trust company law adds another regulated layer. Forming a trust company in Nevada runs through the state's financial institutions division, with a review of capital and management. Administrative and regulatory law appears on the firm's list too, which fits a practice that spends time in front of agencies.

Litigation and appeals

Trial and appellate work runs alongside the transactional practice. Joel Schwarz is a litigation attorney who earned a JD from the University of Illinois College of Law in 2004 and a bachelor of science from Saint Louis University in 1998. His focus includes commercial litigation, commercial landlord-tenant disputes, civil appeals, and intellectual property litigation. He has tried matters before judges and juries.

The firm also names healthcare industry litigation among its areas, which our taxonomy matched to health care law. Disputes in that field often involve providers, payers, and state agencies at once. Records, billing data, and licensing status tend to drive them. An appeal works from the existing record and briefs, with argument before a panel of judges.

Two of counsel attorneys add to the litigation bench. Michael Davidson handles litigation, criminal defense, administrative law, and divorce and separation matters, with cases in Nevada state and federal courts. Elizabeth Friedman focuses on business litigation. As a reviewer, I read that as depth on the dispute side to match the corporate side.

What the record shows

The published picture is consistent: a Las Vegas firm organized around business clients, with lawyers who name Nevada courts and agencies as their working ground. The firm represents local, national, and international business clients on Nevada matters.

The attorney list matches the firm's structure. Named shareholders anchor the corporate and regulatory work. Associates and of counsel lawyers fill in litigation and specific fields. The site gives names and schools for many of them, which is more than some firm pages publish.

The site publishes one social channel, a LinkedIn company page, and lists a single Las Vegas office. For a business seeking corporate, regulatory, and litigation help in one place, the firm's own pages give a clear account of what it does and who does it. In my opinion, the strongest signal here is the group's stated decade of practicing together before the firm took its current form.