Raleigh Thompson

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Practice Highlights:

Raleigh focuses primarily on commercial and civil litigation. He has represented individual and corporate clients in a wide range of cases involving business conflicts, real estate disputes, construction and lien issues, partnership and entity dissolution, receiverships, business torts including defamation and fraud, product defect and personal injury defense, Uniform Commercial Code transactions, shareholder derivative actions, consumer finance litigation, and a variety of other topics. He represents financial institutions in a variety of cases, including defending lender liability claims, as well as in cases under the Fair Credit Reporting Act and Fair Debt Collections Practices Act. His banking litigation experience includes several cases involving $40+ million secured transactions. He has also defended clients in multiple class action lawsuits, including a case alleging a data breach affecting more than 20 million customers. Raleigh has successfully represented clients in federal and state trial and appellate courts, as well as in private arbitrations and mediations.

Raleigh clerked for the Honorable Elizabeth Gonzalez of Eighth Judicial District Court. As a business court law clerk, Raleigh dealt with a broad range of complex business matters and became well versed on procedural and evidentiary issues.

 

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Accomplishments:

Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent Rating
Mountain States Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers Magazine, 2021
Mountain States Super Lawyer, Rising Star, Super Lawyers Magazine, 2013-2020
Nevada Business Magazine - Southern Nevada Legal Elite, 2014-2016, 2020, 2021; Top Rank Attorney, 2022

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Education:

J.D., University of Oregon School of Law, 2008
B.A., University of Utah, 2004

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Bar Admission:

Nevada State Bar 2008
Utah State Bar (inactive) 2008

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Court Admission:

Nevada Supreme Court 2008
U.S. District Court, District of Nevada 2008
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals 2018
Utah Supreme Court (inactive) 2008