Lisa Wiltshire

Ms. Alstead is a partner at McDonald Carano LLP and has worked in the firm's Las Vegas and Reno offices. She practices primarily in commercial and complex litigation, employment and labor law, and bankruptcy in many jurisdictions across the state of Nevada. Her work encompasses a broad range of business litigation, with a specific focus on representation of insurers and employers in workers’ compensation claims. She appears regularly before the Hearings Division and Appeals Office of the Nevada Department of Administration. Her clients include individuals, entrepreneurs, small businesses, single purpose entities, large corporations, financial institutions and banks, insurers and third-party administrators, employers, and agencies created to act as receivers for failed businesses such as financial institutions and insurance companies. Ms. Alstead previously served as a law clerk for Judge Gregg W. Zive of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Reno, Nevada. Ms. Alstead has received the Nevada Women's Fund Women of Achievement Award (2015), was recognized as "Legal Elite" in Nevada Business Magazine for Commercial & Complex Litigation and Employment Labor Law (2018), and has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America in the area of Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law (2018 and 2019). Ms. Alstead's published materials and lectures include the National Business Institute’s CLE seminar, “Finding It Fast on the Net: Strategies for Legal Research on the Web,” in November 2013 and December 2015 and “Judgments,” Chapter 29 of the Nevada Civil Practice Manual, Sixth Edition, 2016.