Robert W. Cottle is a respected Trial Lawyer, having tried dozens of cases in many jurisdictions over the past couple of decades. Mr. Cottle was elected the 2015 Trial Lawyer of Nevada, by vote of the lawyers in the State of Nevada. Mr. Cottle has an AV rating by Martindale Hubbell, which is the highest rating available for lawyers, and that includes participation by judges. Mr. Cottle believes that clients generally do not want to go to trial, but that preparation for trial will return better settlements for clients. Mr. Cottle is known for helping clients with cases worth $15,000 to $15,000,000, and everything in between.

Matthew Minucci made new law when his brief to the 9th District Federal Court, arguing that exhaustion clauses in insurance contracts are void and unenforceable under Colorado law, was adopted by both the 9th Circuit and the Colorado Court of Appeals. Mr. Minucci graduated from the University of Albany, cum laude, with Bachelor Degrees in History and Psychology. He attended law school at St. John’s University on academic scholarship thanks in part to scoring in the 99th percentile on his law school entrance exam. He earned his Juris Doctorate in 1997.

Matthew G. Holland is an experienced and respected trial lawyer who has exclusively devoted his practice to representing members of the Las Vegas community who have been injured through no fault of their own. By virtue of his enthusiastic commitment to his client’s cause for justice, Mr. Holland has been awarded an AV-Preeminent rating by Martindale-Hubble and was recognized as a 2016 and 2017 Super Lawyers Mountain States Rising Star. He is an America’s Top 100 Attorneys Lifetime Achievement recipient and lifetime member of the exclusive Million Dollar Advocates Forum.

Joelle Misuraca, Esq. is an associate attorney at The Cottle Firm. She is a Las Vegas native. Joelle attended Coronado High School and received her Bachelor of Arts Degree from UNLV. Her legal career began during college where she worked as a litigation paralegal at a boutique personal injury law firm. Helping injured people in her community inspired her to apply to law school.

Joelle earned her Juris Doctorate from the William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV in May of 2018. During her third year of law school, she was awarded a prestigious scholarship and a one-year internship at a top civil litigation firm. This internship allowed her to gain practical experience and develop her legal knowledge. After graduation, she accepted a Judicial Clerkship for the Honorable Michael P. Villani where she conducted legal research and prepared written orders and opinions in various civil and criminal matters. Joelle’s clerkship ended in August of 2019 and she joined The Cottle Firm thereafter.

She is a member of the State Bar of Nevada and is licensed to practice law in the State of Nevada.

In August of 2021, Ms. Misuraca and Daniel M. Ryan, Esq. of The Cottle Firm, obtained an $11 million dollar jury verdict in a wrongful death case.