About Joe Guild, Esq.
Affiliated Attorney
Clark Joseph (Joe) Guild III is an affiliated attorney with Black & Wadhams.
Mr. Guild brings nearly 40 years of legal, lobbying and government relations experience in Nevada and with the U.S. Congress to Black & Wadhams. He is a long-time Nevada lawyer who has represented most of his clients for more than 20 years.
Mr. Guild has decades of experience practicing law and an unrivaled fluency in government relations and lobbying impacting dozens of industries with a wide range of issues including water law, insurance, rail transportation, entertainment and motion pictures, mining, livestock ranching, natural resource regulation and use, animal welfare, hazardous materials storage, tobacco taxation and cannabis regulation and taxation.
Mr. Guild is also a partner in a ranch management consulting firm, Great Basin Resource Advocates, currently managing a beef-cattle ranch located in Douglas County, Nevada and Alpine County, California, and an owner/partner in a ranching operation in northeastern Nevada. He is a disabled veteran from the Vietnam War.
Bar Affiliations
- Nevada
Education
- University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, JD
Awards & Recognitions
- Cattleman of the Year, Nevada Cattlemen’s Association
- Nevada Legislature Lobbyist Hall of Fame
- Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Nevada, Reno
Boards & Community Service
- 2018 – Present – Treasurer, National Cattlemen’s Beef Association
- 2013 – Present – Member, Executive Committee, National Cattlemen’s Beef Association
- 1999 – Present – Columnist, Progressive Rancher
- 2011 – 2019 – Member, Desert Research Institute Foundation Board of Trustees
- 2004 – 2005 – President, Nevada Agricultural Foundation
- 1999 – 2003 – Founding Member, Nevada Rangeland Resources Commission
- 1999 – 2001 – President, Nevada Cattlemen’s Association
- 1975 – 1981 – Member, Board of Trustees, Nevada State Museum
- Current – Trust Protector, Public Lands Endowment Trust
Mr. Guild’s current community involvement includes serving as the trust protector for the Public Lands Endowment Trust; on the University of Nevada Reno Libraries Board of Trustees and the Dean’s Advisory Board for the College of Agriculture, Biotechnology and Natural Resources; and as a member of the executive committee and Treasurer for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. He has also served as a past President of the Nevada Cattlemen’s Association, a past member of the Desert Research Institute Foundation Board of Trustees, and as a past member of the Nevada State Museum Board of Trustees.
