is a partner based in Reno office of Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP. He holds a Martindale-Hubbell AV rating, and is a member of the bars of California, Nevada, and England and Wales. Mr. Samberg actively practices in both California and Nevada. In nearly forty years of lawyering, he has handled commercial, construction, and bankruptcy litigation, real estate disputes, creditor's rights, and tort cases in state, federal and bankruptcy courts across the country. Mr. Samberg has extensive experience handling automobile, motorcycle, train, and trucking personal injury and wrongful death matters. His commercial litigation practice includes complex commercial collections, as well as Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 adversary actions. Mr. Samberg's real estate litigation experience encompasses transactional disputes, as well as both commercial and residential construction defect claims. His arbitration, mediation, bench, and jury trial experience includes major injury, wrongful death, and commercial litigation cases. From 1985 through 2007, Mr. Samberg was a founding member of a boutique civil litigation and trial practice in Los Angeles, handling commercial litigation and major injury/wrongful death cases. In 2007, he relocated to Reno, Nevada, when he accepted the position of vice president of contracts and compliance for a national construction staffing company. Mr. Samberg was responsible for negotiating and documenting major customer contracts, regulatory and trade license compliance, credit and mechanic's lien counsel in major cases, and management of outside counsel. He returned to private practice in 2009. Before entering the practice of law, Mr. Samberg was a licensed private investigator. That background and training has proven invaluable in his litigation and trial practice. He obtained his undergraduate degree from UCLA, and is a magna cum laude graduate of Southwestern University School of Law. As a Dean's Scholar, among other honors and achievements, Mr. Samberg earned numerous American Jurisprudence Awards, and two national moot court championships. Upon graduating fourth in his class, he received the ABOTA Award for Excellence in Preparation for Trial Practice of Law (sole recipient from the graduating class), and admission to the National Chapter of the Order of Barristers. Mr. Samberg is a strong proponent of pro bono service, and is a frequent speaker at educational seminars. In his spare time, he enjoys many outdoor activities, including off and on road motorcycling, and bicycling. Mr. Samberg is also a NAUI divemaster emeritus.