Karl Rutledge Email & Phone Number

Karl Rutledge is the Chair of our Commercial Gaming group and a partner in the in the firm’s Las Vegas office. He focuses on Internet gaming, contests, sweepstakes, privacy policies, and website terms and conditions. Karl has been listed in Best Lawyers in America® in the category of Gaming Law since 2012.For Karl, risk analysis and creative business structuring is the name of the game as he helps clients pursue new game offerings. It’s his job to analyze a client’s online gaming business model against existing federal and state gambling statutes, determine their level of risk, and if necessary, make recommendations on how to transform a potentially illegal idea into lawful gaming enterprise. Karl also serves as an ongoing advocate for his clients and their gaming interests. He often writes reasoned legal opinion letters and participates in conference calls to reassure advertisers, potential investors and payment processors that his clients’ businesses constitute a lawful operation. Karl regularly interfaces with gaming regulators to advocate for the legalization of Internet poker at the federal and state levels and to expand permitted gaming offerings. He’s currently representing a client who wants to bring skill games into casinos. Karl also works with companies that run online and/or in-person contests, promotions and sweepstakes to draft the necessary rules associated with those activities as well as website privacy policies and terms and conditions of use. Karl previously served as an Associate Editor of Casino Lawyer Magazine, published and distributed by the International Masters of Gaming Law. An active writer on gaming topics, Karl has authored or co-authored at least 38 articles since 2008.

Listed skills include Online Gaming, Gaming Law, Casino, Legal Writing, and 13 others.