Pawel Szymczykowski will never forget the fire-breathing dragons, the steam-powered bicycles, the magical instruments that played music on their own. Sounds like an LSD trip, but Szymczykowski was just at the Maker Faire in San Mateo, Calif.

Now’s your chance to take the law into your own hands — in a manner of speaking, anyway: With Desert Companion’s Top Lawyers list. In the pages that follow, you’ll find more than 600 of Southern Nevada’s most recommended lawyers.

You don’t have to travel far in Las Vegas to find a ghost. From Bugsy Siegel to Elvis, they’re lurking in dozens of places around the valley, and spirit-spotting tours are available.

With a flood of new law school grads and discount legal services crowding the Las Vegas market, the new law of the land: Adapt Times are tough for lawyers, just like they are for everybody else. The recession shrank demand for legal services — giving rise to competition from cut-rate specialists, causing some firms to lay off staff or close, and forcing those who remain open to make changes in the way they do business.

Now’s your chance to take the law into your own hands — in a manner of speaking, anyway: With Desert Companion’s Top Lawyers list. In the pages that follow, you’ll find more than 600 of Southern Nevada’s most recommended lawyers.

Can my credit card company garnish my wages to force me to pay my credit card debt? “A person, by using their credit card, has agreed to repay these charges. This agreement is not automatically enforceable by the credit card company, but can be enforced by lawsuit.

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Some might consider it absurd to say that shopping can be personally fulfilling, but, yeah, just went there. When I say shopping, I’m not talking about compulsive indulgence in raw consumer want, or stoking that weird hoarding impulse that fuels warehouse stores and discount chains.

Now’s your chance to take the law into your own hands — in a manner of speaking, anyway: With Desert Companion’s Top Lawyers list. In the pages that follow, you’ll find more than 600 of Southern Nevada’s most recommended lawyers.