Many people think that things are more or less the same anywhere – that even in a glamorous and dangerous place like Las Vegas, filled with glamor, riches and sudden tragic poverty, things are just about the same as any town in the USA once you get past all of the tourism, the facade of the hotels with different beautiful material of curtains display on windows, the lights, the casinos. But as a personal injury lawyer working in Las Vegas, I can tell you differently. During my career as a Las Vegas personal injury lawyer, I have seen some things that I am quite sure are not going on in main street USA.

When I started out, I was not a  Las Vegas personal injury lawyer, but instead was employed at a firm specializing in real estate law. I got into the business as a favor to a friend, who had watched me in court, and knew that I was one of the best. A business associate of his had been injured in one of the casinos – seriously injured, as in laid up in the hospital for 6 weeks – and needed a  Las Vegas personal injury lawyer as soon as possible. I was about to see the dark side of my home town. 

The judges are suspicious of  any Las Vegas personal injury lawyer. Everywhere in the United States, personal injury lawyers specialize in twisting the law to their own advantage, but everyone knows that  Las Vegas personal injury lawyers are among the worst. But the things I saw in this trial made me realize just how exciting and bizarre my soon to be new career would be. From the day I took the case on, there was never anything else I wanted to be but a  Las Vegas personal injury lawyer. 

Apparently, my friends colleague was a heavy gambler with a facility for counting cards, and a temper which did not serve to make his life any easier. He had been kicked out of a casino when they saw him practically running the tables, and when he had refused to go quietly, they had ushered him into a back room under false pretenses, and beaten hell out of him. This was just a matter of routine business. I wasn't the first  Las Vegas personal injury lawyer to take on this casino for roughing up customers who had over stayed their welcome, but the casinos are so tight with the city government, they seldom get more than a light fine. But that all changed when I came around.