Piscevich, Margo

After practicing for 43 years, Margo retired from the practice of law. She was a ground breaker and mentor to many women attorneys. She received both her Bachelor of Science and Juris Doctor from the University of Utah, where she was the only female in her law school class. From her first employment, as one of the two first females appointed Deputy Attorney General by the Attorney General of Nevada, she was a trial attorney. When she began private practice she continued a trial practice and then opened her own practice. For the last 25 plus years she did professional malpractice representing doctors, attorneys and hospitals.

She is a woman of many “firsts” including a founder and past President of Women Lawyers of Northern Nevada, the first female President of the State Bar of Nevada and the Bruce R.Thompson Inns of Court. She is the first recipient of the State Bar Presidential Award, the first Nevada women to serve as a representative in the House of Delegates of the American Bar Association, including becoming a Fellow of the American Bar Association. She received many honors including being selected as a member of the International Association of Defense Counsel, the American Board of Trial Advocates and a member the American College of Trial Lawyers, in which only one percent of trial attorneys in the United States and Canada are admitted.

She has been an advocate for the rights of women and minorities serving on the governor’s Committee on the Status of People, Chair of the Advisory Committee to the US Committee on Civil Rights, steering committee of the Governor’s Conference on Women, member of the Board of Directors and chair of Washoe Legal Services, lecturer at the National Judicial College on the subject of gender bias, as well as serving on numerous  legal and community boards from the President of the Girl Scouts of the Sierra Nevada, board member and Vice President of the Nevada Museum of Art, an Underwriter for the Great Reno Balloon Race for 23 years, a member of the board of Planned Parenthood Mar Monte and recently a member the Board of Trustees of the Reno Philharmonic.