 Partner Cap & Kudler:
Allen A. Cap grew up in the Beaver Valley area of Western Pennsylvania
and considers his hometown to be Baden, Pennsylvania, where his mother
and two of his three brothers still reside. A third brother also lives
in Las Vegas. Mr. Cap is single and has a 19-year-old son, Andrew
Roderick, who is a guitar player with the hard-core band, “The Murder
Ballad.”
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Born: Sewickley, Pennsylvania
Education: Slippery Rock University (B.S., 1968; M.S., 1972), California Western School of Law, J.D., 1984
Practice Areas:
Personal Injury Law; Business Litigation; Automobile Accidents and
Injuries; Motorcycle Accidents; Wrongful Death; Spinal Injury; Head
Injury; Slip and Fall; Dog Bites; Sexual Abuse; Medical Malpractice;
Business Law; Contracts; Civil Litigation; Truck Accidents; Premises
Liability; Negligence; Torts; Civil Liability; Products Liability;
Birth Trauma; Wills; Living Wills; Tort Liability
Membership: State Bar of Nevada; Nevada Justice Association.
Admissions: 1984, Nevada
Biography:
Allen A. Cap grew up in the Beaver Valley area of Western Pennsylvania
and considers his hometown to be Baden, Pennsylvania, where his mother
and two of his three brothers still reside. A third brother also lives
in Las Vegas. Mr. Cap is single and has a 19-year-old son, Andrew
Roderick, who is a guitar player with the hard-core band, “The Murder
Ballad.”
Mr. Cap is a 1964 graduate of Rochester High School in
Rochester, Pennsylvania, where he participated on the gymnastics,
football and track teams. He graduated from Slippery Rock College in
Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania in 1968 with a with a bachelor of science
degree in health and physical education. While at Slippery Rock, he was
captain of the gymnastics team and was a member of Phi Epsilon Kappa
fraternity. Mr. Cap also holds a Masters Degree in Scientific Basis of
Physical Education (1972) and taught health and physical education at
Peters Township High School, where he formed a men’s gymnastics team
and taught P.E. and coached gymnastics from 1968 to 1979.
In
1979, Mr. Cap moved to Las Vegas. An athlete and bodybuilder, he was
formerly a competitive bodybuilder who was runner-up in the AAU Mr.
Nevada Contest in 1979. He worked for the University of Nevada Las
Vegas physical education department from 1979 to 1981, teaching
gymnastics and weight training to physical education majors, working in
supervision at the McDermott Field House and working as an instructor
in the NYSP and Summer Thing programs. He completed credits and wrote
the prospectus for his doctorate in educational administration while at
UNLV and took chemistry classes as a prerequisite for chiropractic
school.
In 1981, he decided to attend law school, receiving his
Juris Doctorate degree in 1984 from the California Western School of
Law in San Diego, California. While in law school, Mr. Cap received a
faculty award in legal drafting and he passed the Nevada Bar
immediately after graduating from law school.
From 1984 to 2004, Mr.
Cap was an associate attorney with Law Offices of Albert D. Massi in
Las Vegas Nevada. This law firm specialized in personal injury, medical
malpractice and products liability cases. In 2004, Mr. Cap and Donald
Kudler started the Law Firm of Cap and Kudler in Las Vegas.
Lawyer’s Biographical Data Form Pursuant to Nevada Rules of Professional Conduct Rule7.2A Legal Service InformationAllen A. Cap, Esq.
Lawyer’s Biographical Data Form
Pursuant to Nevada Rules of Professional Conduct
Rule 7.2A Legal Service Information
for Allen A. Cap, Esq.
Information Required by Rule 7.2A
(1) Name and address of lawyer:
Allen A. Cap, Esq.
3202 West Charleston Boulevard
Las Vegas, Nevada 89102
(2) Date and jurisdiction of initial admission to practice:
October 1, 1984 - State of Nevada
(3) Date and jurisdiction of each subsequent admission to practice:
N/A
(4) Name of law school and year of graduation:
California Western School of Law, 1984
(5)
The areas of specialization in which the lawyer is entitled to hold
himself out as a specialist under the provisions of Rule 7.4:
N/A
Additional Information allowed by Rule 7.2A
(1)
Names and dates of any legal articles or treatises published by the
lawyer, and the name of the publication in which they were published:
N/A
(2)
A good faith estimate of the number of jury trials tried to a verdict
by the lawyer to the present date, identifying the court or courts:
Approximately twenty (20) short trials and twenty-five (25) conventional trials.
(3)
A good faith estimate of the number of court (bench) trials tried to a
judgment by the lawyer to the present date, identifying the court or
courts:
Approximately five (5)
(4) A good faith estimate of
the number of administrative hearings tried to a conclusion by the
lawyer, identifying the administrative agency or agencies:
Approximately twenty-five (25) workers compensation and contractor's board hearings.
(5)
A good faith estimate of the number of appellate cases argued to a
court of appeals or a supreme court, in which the lawyer was
responsible for writing the brief or orally arguing the case,
identifying the court or courts:
State Farm v. Knauss, 105 Nev.407 775 P.2d 707 (1989)
Ippolito v. Liberty Mutual, 101 Nev.376 705 P.2d 134 (1985)
Renaud v. 200 Convention Center, 101 Nev.140 728 P.2d 445 (1986)
R. Korbel v. A. Korbel, 101 Nev.140 496 P.2d 993 (1985)
Bowyer v. Taack, 107 Nev.625 817 P.2d 1176 (1991)
Lopez v. Merit Insurance, 109 Nev.553 853 P.2d 1266 (1993)
Mausbach v. Lemke/Jureack, 110 Nev.37 866 P.2d 446 (1994)
Rivera v. ANPAC, 105 Nev.703 782 P.2d 1322 (1989)
Stuhmer v. Centaur Sculpture Galleries, Ltd., 110 Nev.270 871 P.2d 327 (1994)
(6) The professional activities of the lawyer consisting of teaching or lecturing:
Speaker at short trial seminar on March 14, 2007.
(7) The names of any volunteer or charitable organizations to which the lawyer belongs, which the lawyer desires to publish:
N/A
(8) A description of bar activities such as elective or assigned committee position in a recognized bar organization:
Nevada Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Short Trial Program
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