About
Laura is currently serving as the Municipal Court Judge for the City of Elgin. She has been an legal professional for 20 years, having graduated from J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University in 1998. She is admitted to exercise law in Oregon, Arizona, and Utah, in addition to nine federal jurisdictions, along with the United States Supreme Court Bar and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Laura has great trial and movement exercise at all tiers, together with federal, nation, county, and metropolis courts. She has been each a prosecutor and a criminal protection legal professional, and has practiced civil regulation within the regulation workplace, as well as the non-public practice putting. She relishes her role as a zealous suggest.
During regulation school, Laura efficaciously competed within the school’s trial advocacy team, turned into vice-chair of the Trial Advocacy Board, president of the Phi Delta Phi global prison fraternity, and became additionally a scholar member of the American Inns of Court. While having two children and graduating early, she additionally served multiple judicial/criminal externships all through law faculty, along with: judicial extern for Judge Marian Blank Horn on the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in Washington, D.C.; prison intern on the criminal department of the Church of Jesus of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah; and research assistant for Professor Richard G. Wilkins working for an Non-Governmental Organization lobbying group with the United Nations.
After law faculty, Laura joined a small regulation workplace, running on lots of civil litigation and criminal subjects, before commencing her personal private exercise. She later turned to the public quarter, becoming the Property Acquisition Coordinator and Assistant City Prosecutor for the City of Layton, Utah in 2001. She become then decided on via Federal Judge Ted Stewart to serve as a career personnel attorney in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, specializing in crook cases and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines.
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- Agricultural Law
- Family Law
- Adoption, Child Custody, Child Support, Father s Rights, Guardianship & Conservatorship, Paternity, Prenups & Marital Agreements, Restraining Orders, Same Sex Family Law
- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- Bankruptcy
- Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, Chapter 13 Bankruptcy, Chapter 7 Bankruptcy, Debt Relief
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Graduation year: 1996
Graduation year: 1991
