In the last two decades, gaming law has emerged as a critically important legal specialization. It is an exciting and diverse practice that touches on many other disciplines of law such as contracts, antitrust, constitutional law and others.

This area of practice has grown rapidly to meet the demand of growing and emerging gaming markets across the globe, but there is still a large, unsatisfied portion of that market.

If your firm offers gaming law as a specialty or would benefit by reaching gaming lawyers, regulators, compliance officers, security or surveillance directors, in house counsel or casino executives, Casino Lawyer magazine can help connect your firm’s abilities with the needs of the gaming industry.

Casino Lawyer is published four times a year by the International Masters of Gaming Law. It is distributed along with Casino Enterprise Management magazine to over 16,500 subscribers. Two thousand of these issues reach international destinations.

Cover Story
Francesco Rodano: Regulator of the Year
How did Italy’s Francesco Rodano become this year’s IMGL Regulator of the Year? Find out in this cover story.
By Sharon Harris

Francesco Rodano will receive the 2008 International Masters of Gaming Law’s (IMGL) Regulator of the Year award. Rodano serves as chief of the director-general’s staff and as head of remote gaming of the Amministrazione autonoma dei monopoli di Stato (AAMS), Italy’s gaming regulatory agency. ...

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VOLUME 4 NUMBER 4 FALL ISSUE 2008

Message From the President
Robert W. Stocker II

It has been an interesting year for the casino industry. Credit market chaos, high gas prices, general economic uncertainties and smoking bans have all impacted key portions of the North American gaming market.

Russian adventurism has Eastern Europe on edge, dampening interest in investment in gaming expansion in this growing market. Political turmoil in Thailand has not been good for the gaming business in that country, while its neighbors continue to work on expansion of their gaming markets.

At the same time, the gaming industry in Macau remains strong and gaming in Singapore will soon become a reality as demonstrated by Robert W. Stocker IIthe many construction cranes on site at the government-approved gaming development sites as this column is being written.

At the very least, all of these developments give the gaming legal fraternity, government regulators and elected legislatures a lot to contemplate and discuss as we rapidly approach calendar year 2009. The International Masters of Gaming Law and its members will play major roles in the trenches, in the print media and on speaker podiums as the gaming industry confronts the challenges facing it in the coming year. ...

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