Patrick C. Clary, Chartered
A Nevada Professional
Corporation
7201 West Lake Mead Boulevard, Suite 410
Las Vegas, Nevada 89128
Phone: 702-382-0813
Fax: 702-382-7277
E-Mail: pcclary@aol.com
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Professional
Affiliations Patrick C. Clary is the President, Secretary-Treasurer,
director and sole stockholder of Patrick C. Clary, Chartered, a
Nevada professional corporation, incorporated in 1980 as the
successor to Perry & Clary, which had been organized in 1969.
Mr. Clary is the senior alumnus of the firm Lionel Sawyer &
Collins (originally Lionel & Sawyer), for which he became
employed upon its formation on March 1, 1967 shortly after his
graduation from law school.
Education After attending the
University of Nevada in Reno, 1960-1962, Mr. Clary relocated to
Washington, D.C., where he received his bachelor of arts and juris
doctor degrees from The American University in 1965 and 1967,
respectively.
Law
Practice Mr. Clary has been providing legal and advice and services to
individuals and small businesses for 40 years and, on February 22,
2007, was an honoree at the Clark County Bar Association’s 40-Year
Club Induction Ceremony. Emphasizing securities law, he has
primarily practiced in business organization formation and related
legal services for new businesses in Nevada and elsewhere and has
represented both issuers and broker-dealers in public and private
offerings, parties to other securities financing transactions,
clients involved in corporate and Chapter reorganizations and
clients pursuing private securities claims and defending against
prosecution of Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement
actions and private securities civil actions.More recently the Clark
County Bar Association published an article written by Pat in the
December 2007 edition of the Communique, the official journal of the
Association, featuring lawyers’ articles on business law. Pat’s
article is entitled “Are You Practicing Securities Law and Don’t
Know It? If you don’t know, you probably are” (which can be found at
www.clarkcountybar.org); although by its title the article is
directed to lawyers who may not be familiar with the securities
laws, it is also instructive to prospective clients regarding the
legal requirements for compliance with federal and state securities
laws.
Reported Cases Mr. Clary’s admission to
the Supreme Court of the United States in 1990 was occasioned by the
filing there of a petition for writ of certiori in the landmark case
of Hocking v. Dubois, 885 F.2d 1449 (9th Cir. 1989), cert. denied
494 U.S. 1078 (1990), a case in which, Mr. Clary distinguished
himself as a securities lawyer in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Ninth Circuit, where, as attorney for the plaintiff, he won the
appeal there in a 2-1 decision by the initial panel and then in a
6-5 decision after a subsequent en banc rehearing. The case
established and still stands for liberalized standards in the Ninth
Circuit for the definition of “securities,” which the U.S. Supreme
Court declined to review. Later, Mr. Clary won a case of “first
impression” in the Supreme Court of Nevada in Schwartz v.
Wasserburger, 117 Nev. 703, 30 P.3d 1114 (2001, where the Nevada
Supreme Court, reversing a lower court decision, established that
Nevada’s 6-year statute of limitations for written contracts runs
from the “actual breach” rather than the “anticipatory
breach.”
Political, Civic and Cultural
Activities Long active in Democratic politics since his youth, Mr. Clary
was a Democratic candidate for Congress in Nevada in 1996. He is a
founding member of the Board of Directors of the Las Vegas
Philharmonic (now nine years old and recently rated as the most up
and coming orchestra in the United States) and presently is the
Philharmonic’s General Counsel; he is also a member of the Board of
Directors of Nevada Arts Advocates. Mr. Clary is founder and
President/Chairman Emeritus of the Nevada Committee on Foreign
Relations, an affiliate of the American Committees on Foreign
Relations (ACFR) in Washington, D.C.; Mr. Clary is also a member of
ACFR’s national Board of Directors. On November 11, 2007, Mr.
received an award at the 45th Anniversary Gala Concert of the
Society “for his 13 years as a member and officer of the Board of
Trustees and for his contribution as an outstanding singer and
generous patron.” He also received citations from Nevada’s Governor
and Lt. Governor as well as members of the Nevada Congressional
delegation, and City of Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman issued a
proclamation designating November 11, 2007 as “Patrick C. Clary
Day.
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