Prescott T. Jones,
Of Counsel

Biography

Prescott Jones helps businesses, insurers, property owners, homeowners associations, cannabis companies, and individuals resolve disputes and navigate Nevada law. He represents clients in state, federal, and appellate courts throughout Nevada and is frequently retained as local counsel by out-of-state clients. He has also been admitted pro hac vice in multiple jurisdictions.

Clients turn to Prescott at every stage of a dispute, including pre-suit strategy, motions to dismiss, discovery, mediation, arbitration, trial, and appeal. His litigation practice includes commercial, employment, construction, insurance coverage, premises liability, general liability, personal injury, class action, shareholder derivative, anti-SLAPP, and common-interest community matters.

Prescott also advises clients on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, purchase and sale agreements, regulatory compliance, zoning and land use, licensing agreements, and proceedings before state boards and local governments. He has represented Nevada cannabis businesses since the passage of SB 374 in 2013, giving clients counsel grounded in the industry's legal and regulatory development.

Professional Expertise

Representative Published Decisions

  • Elk Point Country Club Homeowners Ass'n v. K.J. Brown LLC, 138 Nev. Adv. Op. 60, 515 P.3d 837 (2022), recognized that short-term rentals are permissible in common-interest communities when the governing documents do not prohibit them.

  • Moretto v. Elk Point Country Club Homeowners Ass'n, 138 Nev. Adv. Op. 24, 507 P.3d 199 (2022), adopted a reasonableness test for HOA-imposed design restrictions under the Restatement (Third) of Property.

  • Cervantes-Guevara v. Eighth Jud. Dist. Ct., 138 Nev. Adv. Op. 10, 505 P.3d 393 (2022), clarified that COVID-era emergency directives did not toll NRCP 4(e)'s 120-day service requirement.

  • Patin v. Lee, 134 Nev. Adv. Op. 87 (2018), applied California's anti-SLAPP standards to determine whether a statement was made in direct connection with an issue under consideration by a judicial body.

  • Barrett v. Eighth Jud. Dist. Ct., 130 Nev. Adv. Op. 65, 331 P.3d 892 (2014), addressed Chapter 40 notice requirements in subcontractor-supplier disputes.

  • Patin v. Lee, 394 P.3d 210 (2017), held that a notice of appeal filed before entry of a final order is ineffective.

  • Uponor v. Eighth Jud. Dist. Ct., 130 Nev. 1257 (2014), declined to impute an American subsidiary's Nevada contacts to a foreign parent company for jurisdictional purposes.

Services

Education

  • State University of New York Buffalo Law School  (J.D., 2009)
    • Publications Editor, Buffalo Law Review
  • State University of New York at Buffalo  (B.A., 2005)

Bar Admissions

  • Nevada

Professional Affiliations

  • American Bar Association
  • Nevada Bar Association
  • Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce

Honors

  • Rated “AV-Preeminent” by Martindale Hubbell (2023)
  • Top 100 Lawyers list by MyVegas Magazine (2023)
  • “Legal Elite” by Nevada Business Magazine for Corporate/Cannabis, General Civil Litigation, and Insurance Coverage
  • Nevada Super Lawyers, “Rising Star” (2019)