About
onathan Hafen has been broadly praised by using clients and peers for his skilled and e?cient approach to litigation. As a trial legal professional, Mr. Hafen handles a wide sort of litigation, along with instances in the regions of securities and funding law, employment law, breach of contract, assets disputes, avenue and get admission to cases, highbrow belongings, medical devices, pharmaceutical merchandise, disputes over ownership and manage of groups, elegance moves, creation regulation, and legal malpractice protection. Mr. Hafen also serves as prison suggest to some of small, midsize and multinational companies, utilising the signi?cant resources to be had at Parr Brown to deal with the wide spectrum of felony demanding situations automatically confronting business leaders.
Mr. Hafen has been presented an AV score – the best offered by Martindale-Hubbell. He has been time and again identified as a pinnacle business litigator via Best Lawyers in America, Chambers USA – America’s Leading Business Lawyers, Benchmark Litigation, and by way of Utah Business magazine as one of Utah’s Legal Elite. Mr. Hafen was named “Lawyer of the Year” in Employment Law for Individuals (2015) and Labor Law – Union (2018), and (2020) by way of Best Lawyers. He additionally continues to be diagnosed as one of the “Top one hundred” attorneys in the Intermountain area by way of Mountain States Super Lawyers. Following a nomination, studies and blue ribbon overview process, Mr. Hafen become named one of the “Top 10” Lawyers in the Mountain States (Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming) by way of Super Lawyers Magazine for 2012 and “Top one hundred” for 2013, 2015 and 2016.
He graduated magna cum laude from BYU Law School in 1991, clerked for Monroe McKay, Chief Judge of the U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, and labored at one of the country’s most prestigious regulation offices, Sidley & Austin (Chicago) from 1992-95.
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Location
Legal Issues
- Intellectual Property
- Entertainment & Sports Law
- Commercial Litigation Services
- Employment Litigation
- Securities Litigation
- Class Actions
Costs
Certificates
Languages
- English
- German
Accepted Jurisdictions

Experience
has membership, Board of Governors, Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce; Chair, International Committee
has membership, Board of Directors, Tenth Circuit, Federal Bar Association
Chair, Supreme Court Advisory Committee on the Utah Rules of Civil Procedure
Former Chair and Current Executive Committee has membership, Litigation Section, Utah State Bar
has membership, Utah State Bar Labor & Employment
Executive Committee, Utah State Bar Litigation
has membership, BYU Law School Alumni Advisory Board
BYU Alumni Association
Chair, Tuacahn Center for the Arts
Chair, Utah State Bar Continuing Legal Advisory Committee
Faculty has membership, Litigation Section Trial Academy, March 2018
Educations

Graduation year: 1991

Graduation year: 1988

Graduation year: 1986