I am producing some latex beamer slides (but I think it is not a beamer specific question per se).
I have the following:
\\begin{itemize}
\\item Issue1
\
I did something similar once. I let the list be in a column to the left, and in the right column, I did the $\right\}$
-thing so that it was as tall as some \mbox
or something (which I decided with \vphantom
or something similar). Unfortunately I don't have time to dig it out... I actually don't have time to be at SO at all right now ;)