Elizabeth M. Sorokac is an owner and founder of the Reisman Sorokac law firm. Ms. Sorokac has been practicing law in Nevada since 2001, and throughout her legal career, she has been associated with some of the most well-respected attorneys in the state. Her practice focuses on real estate, government affairs and corporate matters. She also assists clients in government administrative processes and in litigation.
In her real estate and government affairs practices, Ms. Sorokac has tackled virtually all aspects of real estate, including zoning and land-use entitlements, purchases, sales, commercial leases, business licensing, permitting and development agreements. Ms. Sorokac frequently represents clients before the administrative boards in the following jurisdictions: City of Las Vegas; Clark County, including its rural areas; Pahrump; Nye County; and City of Henderson.
Ms. Sorokac's corporate practice assists clients with entity formation, corporate record maintenance, contract review, and guidance in general business-law matters. The litigation Ms. Sorokac manages generally relates to her transactional practice and includes appeals from administrative decisions and lawsuits regarding, among other things, recall and elections law, real estate developments and real estate contracts.
Practice Highlights
- Represented a client in a $40 million real estate transaction involving multiple businesses, properties and privilege licenses
- Obtained the approvals for one of the largest materials recovery facility and recycling centers in Southern Nevada
- Represented the owner of a gas and convenience store chain consisting of eleven locations in Southern Nevada
- Represented a client in the purchase and sale of an existing 150-room rehabilitation facility and in obtaining the appropriate state and local licenses to operate a medical detoxification facility
- Represented a client in the purchase and sale of land and in obtaining the approvals for a billion-dollar, resort hotel and casino in the City of Henderson
- Obtained the approvals for a 900-acre, master-planned community - the largest of its kind in Nye County
- Represented a Nye County Commissioner in challenging the recall efforts made against him
- Obtained reversal of a local city council decision that stripped the client of its property rights to a valuable billboard, through successful appeal in the Eighth Judicial District Court
- Obtained the approval of a development agreement for an 18-acre, mixed-use, commercial, retail, and office development through Clark County's high-impact-project process
- Practiced high-dollar, complex commercial litigation as an associate of a current Nevada Supreme Court Justice
- Served as law clerk to the Honorable Gene T. Porter, Chief Judge and Business Court Judge, in the Eighth Judicial District Court
- Functioned as in-house counsel for the largest master-plan community developer in Southern Nevada
- Nominee for Las Vegas Business Press' Women Who Mean Business Award - 2011
Professional Organizations
- State Bar of Nevada
- Clark County Bar Association
- American Planning Association
Volunteer Work
- Las Vegas Metro Chamber of Commerce fka Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce
— Graduate, Leadership Las Vegas Class of 2012
- University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Lee Business School, Lied Institute for Real Estate Studies
— Mentor to Real Estate Law undergraduate student
- Mountain States Super Lawyers
— 2012 Mountain States Rising Star in Government Relations
- Anti-Defamation League (the nation's premier civil rights/human relations agency)
— Chair of the Government Affairs Committee
— Graduate of the Glass Leadership Institute (a nationally-recognized leadership development program)
- Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation of Nevada
— Advisory Board Member
— Annual Summer Camp Counselor and Volunteer
Speaking Engagements/Publications
"Local Lobbying - What to Do and How to Do It." Communique, November 2012
- "Top 10 Points for Negotiating an Office Lease" before the Strategic Marketing Alliance
- "The Negotiation and Renegotiation of Leases" before the Nevada Osteopathic Medical Association
- "Land Use Regulation and Inverse Condemnation" before the National Business Institute
- A Look to the Past with an Eye on the Future of Planning in the Las Vegas Valley-Nevada Planner Fall 2010
- Practical Guide to Land Use and Zoning-Rural Land Use Issues-National Business Institute Speaker
- Introduction to Land Use and Zoning-Presentation to NAI Horizon
- A Rewarding Reinvention in Tough Economic Times, Communique, December 2009
- US Supreme Court Case Update, Communique, April 2008.
