Paula C. Gentile

Ms. Gentile is on the keynote panel for Tuesday morning's General Session, "Double Down: Winning Strategies from Leaders in Construction Risk Management." She is senior vice president and general counsel of MGM MIRAGE Risk Management Division. She is responsible for insurance procurement, risk management, liability claims, claims-related litigation, workers compensation, and safety for all MGM MIRAGE properties, and she arranges insurance and risk management programs for all company construction projects. She joined Mirage Resorts in 1998 as a Litigation Attorney in the Risk Management Division. In that position, she provided legal services and advice to all of the hotels in the Mirage Resorts family. Her relationship with the company began in 1994 as outside counsel for the properties in litigated matters regarding personal injuries.

Before joining Mirage Resorts, she practiced law for 20 years, in California and Nevada, as well as serving as a judge pro tem in Los Angeles Municipal Court in California and professor of law at the University of West Los Angeles Law School. Since moving to Clark County in 1993, in addition to her law practice, she served as a judge pro tem in Clark County Justice Court, as a court-appointed arbitrator under the Clark County Arbitration Program, and as a Hearing Officer for the City of Las Vegas. She is engaged in numerous community activities in Las Vegas, including serving as Vice-Chair of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Civil Service Board and Treasurer of the Eighth Judicial District Pro Bono Foundation.

Ms. Gentile was recently elected to serve as cochairman of Nevada’s Article 6 Commission, a 33-member commission of judges, lawyers, and lay people who will look into improving the court system in Nevada. She has served as president of the Nevada Italian American Lawyers and as a member of the Clark County Bar Association Committee on Continuing Legal Education. She graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in Psychology and obtained a juris doctor degree from Southwestern School of Law.