Education

University of Chicago Law School | Chicago, IL

• Juris Doctor, June 1995

• Staff member, University of Chicago Legal Forum

University of Chicago Graduate School | Chicago, IL

• Master of Arts, Legal History, 1990

• A.B.D., Graduate School of History, Ph.D oral examinations in US History

Yale University | New Haven, CT

• Bachelor of Arts, Humanities, 1986

Awards

Antitrust Lawyer of the Year, Salt Lake City, Best Lawyers in America U.S. News and World Reports, 2016

Best Lawyers in America U.S. News and World Reports, 2011-2021

America's Top 100 High Stakes Litigators in Anti-Trust, Commercial and Wrongful Death Litigation 2018

Mountain States Super Lawyer Thomson Reuters, 2010-2017

Utah Legal Elite Utah Business Magazine, 2017

Top 100 Attorney in Nevada, Utah, Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming Super Lawyers, 2014-2016

Top Attorney Litigation, Superb rating AVVO

Preeminent Lawyer, AV Martindale Hubbell, 2018

Best Law Firms in America U.S. News & World Report

Top 100 Lawyer American Society of Legal Advocates

Attorney to Watch Attorney At Law Magazine, 2015

MVP Yale University, Championship Varsity Ice Hockey Team

Experience

University of Utah Adjunct Professor of Law and History, Honors Program (Legal History)

Jones Waldo Holbrook and McDonough Partner

University of Utah Affiliated Professor Communications Department (First Amendment

Utah Supreme Court Judicial Clerk for Justice Christine Durham

National Institute of Trial Advocacy Instructor 2005 - present

EV Pegnitz | Pegnitz, Germany Professional ice hockey player

Northwood School High school teacher and coach

Presentations & Lectures

Speaker, University of Wyoming Psychology of Persuasion Conference

Speaker, Utah Bar Association CLE Rise and Shine: Storytelling and Trial Advocacy

Lecturer, National Institute of Trial Advocacy The Science of Storytelling from Intake to Verdict

Speaker, Utah Bar Association's Business Section Annual Meeting Unfair Trade Practices

Lecturer, National Institute of Trial Advocacy The Science of Storytelling for the Trial Lawyer

Speaker, National Business Institute May it Please the Court: Why Stories Should Matter to Trial Lawyers

Scholarship

University of Chicago Law Review

University of Chicago Legal Forum

The University of Chicago Roundtable

Utah Business Law for Entrepreneurs & Managers

Selected Citations

US Supreme Court Citations

• Berghuis v. Smith, 130 S. Ct. 1382 (2010)

• Neder v. United States, 527 U.S. 1 (1999)

• U.S. v. Gaudin, 515 U.S. 506 (1995)

Lower Court Citations

• U.S. v. Lynch, 952 F. Supp. 167 (S.D.N.Y. 1997)

• People v. Williams, 21 P.3d 1209 (Cal. 2001)

• People v. Marshall, 919 P.2d 1280 (Cal. 1996)

• Davis v. State, 809 A.2d 565 (Del. 2002)

• People v. Douglas, 680 N.Y.S.2d 145 (1998)

Law Reviews and Secondary Sources

• Harvard Law Review

• University of Pennsylvania Law Review

• Georgetown Law Review

• Stanford Law Review

• Cornell Law Review

• Yale Law Journal

• N.Y.U. Law Review

• University of Chicago Law Review

Books

• Randall Kennedy, Race, Crime, and the Law (Vintage 1997)

• Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, The Majesty of the Law (Random House 2003)

• David Cole, No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System (The New Press 1999)

• Eric K. Monkkonen, Murder in New York City (University of California Press 2000)

• Linda K. Kerber, No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship (Hill & Wang 1998)

• Neil Vidmar, World Jury Systems (Oxford 2001).