Experience, preparation, and a human point of contact.
Summit was built around direct communication. Renee Finch and Jaclyn Kliewer bring trial and insurance-defense experience, while Ace Ayres and Nathaly Melroy help keep the client experience responsive from the first conversation forward. The Las Vegas team represents clients across Las Vegas, Reno, Henderson, and communities throughout Nevada.
Renee M. Finch
Founding partner
Renee is a Las Vegas trial attorney with more than 15 years of experience and 30+ trials. She began her career representing insurers and nationally known companies, gaining a detailed understanding of how those organizations evaluate injury claims.
Her practice is grounded in careful legal analysis, empathy, attention to detail, and appropriate aggression. She founded Summit Trial Attorneys in 2025 to bring that perspective to injured people and their families.
- Super Lawyers Rising Stars selections, 2019 through 2024
- Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America; active ABOTA member
- Admitted in Nevada
Jaclyn Kliewer
Partner
Jaclyn focuses her practice on representing people who have been injured. Before joining the plaintiff side, she spent more than six years defending insurance companies and corporations in complex personal injury matters.
She earned her J.D., cum laude, from the William S. Boyd School of Law, where she received a merit scholarship, made the Dean's List, earned CALI awards in legal writing, health law, and remedies, and edited the UNLV Gaming Law Journal.
- Experienced in depositions, hearings, mediations, arbitrations, and trials
- Nevada bar admission
- William S. Boyd Education Clinic experience
Ace Ayres
Office Manager / Paralegal
Ace Ayres keeps Summit organized and responsive as clients move from an initial inquiry to the next conversation. The office-manager and paralegal role supports scheduling, case coordination, and the day-to-day work that keeps a trial practice moving with care and discretion.
Nathaly Melroy
Case Manager
Se habla español · Bilingual
Nathaly Melroy serves as Case Manager, helping clients and the legal team stay coordinated on records, appointments, and the practical next step in a matter. She is bilingual in English and Spanish and is part of the human point of contact Summit wants people to have from the first conversation forward.