Email: pjones@rlattorneys.com
Phone: (702) 997-1029
Prescott Jones is a seasoned corporate attorney and litigator with a wide variety of experience, including starting and leading Resnick & Louis’s multi-state cannabis practice. Prescott has significant experience working with clients of all sizes in appellate matters, employment, general liability, construction, insurance coverage, HOA/common-interest community litigation, class action litigation, shareholder derivative actions, commercial litigation, and all types of bodily injury matters.
Prescott has been involved in all aspects of cannabis law in Nevada since SB 374 was signed into law in 2013, including mergers and acquisitions, purchase and sale agreements, joint ventures, license transfers, regulatory issues involving the CCB and local governmental entities, zoning and land use issues, and licensing agreements. He also has significant experience advising cannabis clients on a broad range of corporate and litigated matters including employment issues, entity formation, real estate (including commercial leases, commercial/industrial real estate transactions, and sale-leaseback agreements), appellate issues, insurance coverage, products liability, premises liability, commercial litigation, construction, and general liability litigation. Prescott also represents his clients in front of the Nevada Cannabis Control Board, county planning boards, and other state and local agencies and administrative boards. Prescott prides himself on representing companies of all sizes, from large Multi-State Operators and eight-figure investors to small companies and individuals that are seeking their first license.
Prescott is rated “AV Preeminent” by Martindale-Hubbell for Business Law, Construction Litigation, and General Civil Litigation. He was selected to the 2023 Top 100 Lawyers list by MyVegas Magazine, and is featured in the 2021 “Legal Elite” list of top attorneys by Nevada Business Magazine for his Corporate/Cannabis, General Civil Litigation, and Insurance Coverage practices. He was also selected as a “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers in 2019.
While in law school, he served as a Publications Editor for the Buffalo Law Review, a Senior Member of the Buffalo Moot Court Board, and a Senior Associate Member of the Jessup Moot Court Board. He graduated from law school in the top quarter of his class and was admitted to the Nevada Bar the same year.
In his free time, Prescott is an avid hockey player and enjoys hiking at Red Rock Canyon.
Notable Speaking Engagements
• Repeat guest for “Unshackled” Podcast, hosted by the Marijuana Industry Trade Association, selected as “Cannabis Podcast of the Year” in 2023.
•Speaker at ASU Law School “Cannabis Law Panel” in 2023.
• “From Getting a License to Opening Your Business; Step-by-Step – The Nevada Experience” to the Arizona Marijuana Industry Trade Association in 2021.
• “Risk Transfer in the Cannabis Industry” in 2021.
• “Navigating into the Post-Covid Work Environment” in 2020.
• “Banking and Financing for the Marijuana Industry” at the Recreational Marijuana Business Law CLE in Las Vegas in 2018.
• “Impact of Consumer Electronics Data on Liability Claims” at the PLRB Regional Adjusters Conference in 2018.
• “Nevada Law and Strategy Overview” to various national insurance carriers, 2018-present.
Published Nevada Supreme Court Opinions
• Elk Point Country Club Homeowners Ass’n v. K.J. Brown LLC, 138 Nev. Adv. Rep. 60, 515 P.3d 837 (2022) (allowing members of a common-interest community to use their units for short-term transient rental use absent a provision of the community’s governing documents prohibiting same).
•Moretto v. Elk Point Country Club Homeowners Ass’n, 138 Nev. Adv. Rep. 24, 507 P.3d 199 (2022) (adopting Restatement (Third) of Property: Servitudes, sect. 6.7 & 6.9, to allow, but limit via a new “reasonableness” test, an association’s power to adopt design-control restrictions on individually owned property).
•Cervantes-Guevara v. Eighth Jud. Dist. Ct., 138 Nev. Adv. Rep. 10, 505 P.3d 393 (2022) (denying Petitioner’s attempt to utilize covid-era emergency directives to toll 120-day service period established by NRCP 4(e)).
•Patin v. Lee, 134 Nev. Adv. Rep. 87 (2018) (adopting California’s framework for determining if an allegedly defamatory statement is “made in direct connection with an issue under consideration by a . . . judicial body” in the context of an anti-SLAPP special motion to dismiss).
• Barrett v. Eighth Jud. Dist. Ct., 331 P.3d 892, 130 Nev. Adv. Rep. 65 (2014) (addressing whether Chapter 40 notices are required in litigation between a subcontractor and a supplier).
• Patin v. Lee, 394 P.3d 210 (2017) (determining that a notice of appeal cannot be effective when it is filed prior to entry of the appealed order).
•Uponor v. Eighth Jud. Dist. Ct., 130 Nev. 1257 (2014) (declining to exercise jurisdiction over foreign corporation by refusing to impute American subsidiary corporation’s Nevada contacts to the foreign parent corporation).
