Honors and Awards:

• Rated AV by the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory since age 29;  Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® since age 35;  Named the 2012 Las Vegas Trusts and Estates Lawyer of the Year by The Best Lawyers in America®.   Inducted into the NAEPC Estate Planning Hall of Fame® in 2011;  Named one of the Top 100 Attorneys in the United States in Worth Magazine;  Named one of Southern Nevada's Best Lawyers in In Business Las Vegas;  Named one of the Best Lawyers in America in the Trusts & Estates category in The American Lawyer;  Named one of the Best Lawyers in America in the Tax Law category in Corporate Counsel;  Named Nevada Super Lawyer in the Wills, Trusts & Estate Planning category in Nevada Business Journal;  Named Nevada Super Lawyer in the Estate Planning & Probate category in Las Vegas Life;  Named Nevada Super Lawyer and Mountain States Super Lawyer in the Estate Planning & Probate category, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011.

Bar/Professional Activity:

• California State Bar, 1994-present; State Bar of Nevada, 1995-present

Scholarly Lectures and Writings:

• I have authored more than sixty advanced estate planning articles in national magazines, including Trusts & Estates Magazine many times and Estate Planning Magazine many times.  Most, but not all, of the articles can be read online at www.oshins.com.

Other Outstanding Achievements:

• I have been featured and/or quoted in at least fifty national and local publications including, among others, The Wall Street Journal (multiple times), Forbes (multiple times), Bloomberg, Financial Times, Kiplinger's, Registered Rep, Horsesmouth.com, Investment News, Lawyers Weekly USA (about five times), What's On, Las Vegas Review Journal and others.   I was also interviewed by former Good Morning America co-host Joan Lunden for an educational DVD that is being distributed nationally.I have authored three of the most important estate planning and asset protection laws in Nevada.  In the 2001 and 2003 legislative sessions, I authored a law making Nevada one of the leading asset protection jurisdictions for limited liability companies and limited partnerships and then again co-authored another charging order bill  in the 2011 legislative session which included statutorily protecting single member LLCs with charging order protection and statutorily disallowing any equitable remedies to apply to Nevada limited liability companies, limited partnerships and corporations (except for the alter ego theory which still applies to corporations).  In the 2005 legislative session, I authored a law allowing residents and non-residents to set up 365-year trusts under Nevada law.  In the 2009 legislative session, I authored a law that made Nevada the first and only state to allow a new form of business entity called a Restricted LLC and Restricted LP.