Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

Bellarmine College, Louisville, Kentucky

B.A. History

University of Utah College of Law, Salt Lake City, Utah

Juris Doctorate

BAR ASSOCIATION WORK

Member:

Utah Bar Association

United States Bar

9th,10th, &11th Circuit Bar

Montana State Bar Association

United States Supreme Court Bar

Lawyers Helping Lawyers Committee Chairman 1985 - 1986

Law Day High School Coach 1982, 1984

Law Day Presiding Judge 1984

Special Mid-Year Bar Committee 1984 - 1985 (Utah State Bar)

Utah State Rules of Evidence Revision Committee (Utah State Bar)

Federal Magistrates Local Rules Committee 1984

(United States District Court for the District of Utah)

Federal Court Indigent Criminal Defendant Appointment Revision Committee 1984 - 1985

University of Utah College of Law Alumni Fund Drive 1984 - 1985

Co-Chairperson, Salt Lake City Mayor's Advisory Committee on Bicycling 1984

Standing Committee Bar Exam Question Drafting, Criminal Law and Procedure 1984, 1985

President, Utah Criminal Lawyers Association, Utah State Bar Association (2 terms)

Panel Member, Advisory Committee for Reappointment of Magistrate Ronald Boyce

(United States District Court for the District of Utah 1987)

Member of Judicial Selection Commission

(established to select a new United States District Court Judgeship for Utah 1990)

Board Member, New Horizon Program 1992-1993

Board Member, Utah Criminal Lawyers Association 1990-1997

Treasurer, Utah Criminal Lawyers Association 1994-1995

Vice President, Utah Criminal Defense Lawyers Association 1995-1996

President, Utah Criminal Defense Lawyers Association 1997-1998

Panel Member, Subcommittee to Rewrite Model Utah Criminal Jury Instructions 1995

Utah Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Legislative Coordinator 1991 - Present

Board of Directors, "Booked" (Jail Inmate Literacy Program) 1996

Member of Advisory Committee on the Local Rules of Practice

(United States District Court for the District of Utah 1996)

University of Utah College of Law Alumni Fund Drive 1984-1985

Adjunct Professor, Westminster College 1983 - 1987

(Paralegal Program, Criminal Law and Procedure, Legal Writing)

Adjunct Professor, Mountainwest Business College Paralegal Program 1986 - 1988

Member, University of Utah School Alumni Association Board of Trustees 1987 - 1990

Judge, Semi Finals, Roger Traynor Moot Court Competition 1987

(University of Utah College of Law)

Adjunct Professor, University of Utah Political Science Department

(Honors Program Seminar 1991 - Present)

Videotape Production on “Dialogue for Freedom” to be used in high school education, July 2002.

Consultant on Video Production on Joe Hill case.

1978 DUI Criminal Law Section, Utah State Bar

1984 DUI Criminal Law Section, Utah State Bar

1984 Federal Rules, Federal Bar Association Discovery

1984-85, 1985-86, Bridging the Gap, Utah State Bar, Criminal Law

1985 Wyoming Public Defenders Conference, Sentencing Advocacy

1986, 1988 Defending Child Sex Abuse Cases, The Role of Defense Lawyer in Sentencing

1984 Brown Bag Series, University of Utah

1986 (Nix v. Whiteside)

1984 Student to Lawyer Speaker, University of Utah College of Law, Criminal Law Practice

1985 County Bar Luncheon: What to do When Client in Jail, Salt Lake County Bar Association

1981 Training Police Officers, Search Warrants, Police Officer Standards and Training Academy

1986 Speaker Phi Delta Phi Fraternity, Weber State College, Criminal Law Practice

1983, 1984, 1985, 1986 Speaker Prosecutor-Intern Program, University of Utah College of Law (Function of a Criminal Defense Lawyer)

1985 Trial Advocacy Class of Judge Judith Billings, University of Utah College of Law, Search and Seizure

June 1986, June 1987, June 1988, June 1989 Panel Speaker, Hinckley Institute of Politics Taft Seminar for Teachers, "The Constitution"

September 1987 Panel Speaker, 9th Annual Alcohol and Drug Fall Conference (Dram Shop Law - Mock Trial)

1987 Panel Speaker, Society of Professional Journalists Seminar (Free/Fair Trial)

1987 Auctioneer, Utah Special Olympics (co-sponsored by Utah State Bar - Criminal Law Section)

1986 Salt Lake County Bar Association, October Luncheon Program, The First Amendment

1986 Speaker, Child Sexual Abuse, Utah State Bar Association Winter Meeting

1988 Instructor, First Annual Journalism and the Courts Seminar Series, Utah Administrative Office of the Courts

April 8, 1988 Speaker, J. F. Kennedy Jr. High School, The Law and Lawyers

April 8, 1988 Speaker, Utah State Bar Association Mid-Year Meeting, "Prosecutorial Misconduct," Park City, Utah

1988 Demonstration, Cross-Examination of an Expert Witness, Utah State Bar Association

Fall 1988 Speaker, Defending Child Sexual Abuse Cases, Utah State Bar

1988 Speaker, The Ethics of the Public Prosecutor, Statewide Association of Prosecutors Fall Conference

October 1988 Speaker, Joint Family Law section/Criminal Law Section, Child Sexual Abuse Allegations Seminar

March 1989 Speaker, Park City Rotarian Club, The Hofmann case

March 1989 Faculty Speaker, Peace Officer Standards and Training, for Utah Bailiffs

March 1989 Speaker, Circuit Court Judges of Utah, The Role of the Defense Counsel

April 1989 Speaker, Western Regional Conference of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, "Clemency Proceedings"

April 27, 1989 Speaker/Demonstration, Cross-Examination of a Police Officer, Management Seminar for Municipal Employees

1989 Speaker, Use of Polygraphs in Court, Utah State Bar, Sun Valley, Idaho

1990 Mid-Year Meeting of the Utah State Bar, Panelist Whom Does the Bar Serve

1990 University of Utah College of Law Seminar, Recent Developments in Criminal Law, Panelist and Seminar Coordinator

December 9, 1989 Speech to the California Attorneys for Criminal Justice, Creative Defenses Seminar - Defending Cases with Confessions

February 26, 1990 Speech, Criminal Justice Overview, Salt Lake Community College

February 1990 Speech at East High School The Death Penalty

February 1990 Speech at Westminster College, The Criminal Justice Process

1990 Speech at Legal Assistants Association of Utah, 1990 Seminar on Criminal Procedure

1990 Speech at Criminal Law Issues and Trial Practice Seminar for the Utah State Bar, The Closing Argument

May 1990 Speech at Footprinters International Association about the role of the defense lawyer, humor in the law, developing issues in the law

September 1990 National Lawyers Guild Panel, The Hercules III Defense

October 11, 1990 Speech at Criminal Process Class, University of Utah College of Law

April 1991 Speech at Board of District Judges Seminar on Ineffective Assistance of Counsel

April 1991 Speaker at first Utah Criminal Lawyers Association Seminar on Self Defense and Defense of Habitation in Utah

April 1991 Participated in Circuit Court Judges Conference in Heber, Utah on Overview of Drug Forfeitures

April 1991 Participated in Leadership Utah Program through Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerce

May 1991 Speech at University of Utah Department of Political Science Banquet

December 13, 1991 Speech on Outrageous Prosecutorial Conduct, Utah Criminal Lawyers Association

January 28, 1992 Speaker Utah Peace Officers Association, Civil Disobedience and Media as a Defense

February 6, 1992 Speech on Right of Privacy and Right of Privacy in the Workplace, and the Ethics and Technology in Society forum of the Weber State University

June 5, 1992 Speech on Confessions: Dancing Around Admissions and Confessions, Wyoming Public Defenders Conference

June 15, 1992 Speaker at tribute to retirement of Judge Eleanor Van Sciver, Paul Grant, Floyd Gowans and Maurice Jones

August 14, 1992 Speaker at Utah Federation for Drug Free Youth Debate re: Decriminalization of Controlled Substances in America

September 17, 1992 Speak at State court Administrator's Conference, Snowbird, Utah, Dealing with Difficult People

November 9, 1992 Brigham Young University Law Students re: Opening and Closing Statements

Fall, 1992 Speech to Public Law Forum, University of Utah College of Law

January 27, 1993 Judge BYU Trial Advocacy Students' Association

January 30, 1993 Animal Control Officer re: Search and Seizure, Confessions

February 4, 1993 Speak to Skyline High School Students re: Criminal Justice System

March 1993 Speaker at Mid-Year Bar Meeting re: Search and Seizure, Utah's Constitution

April 1993 Participant in NACDL Legislative Fly-In, Washington, DC

October 1993 Speaker, Criminal Law for Civil Lawyers, Salt Lake county Bar Association

November 1993 Speaker and Moderator, The Death Penalty defense Seminar, re: Voir Dire in Death Penalty Cases (BYU Law School)

November, 1993 Speaker re: Junk Science in the Courtroom, Westminster College Eye-Opener, Salt Lake City, Utah

January 1994 Speaker at Footprinters International Association about the role of the defense lawyer

March 1994 Speaker re: Junk Science and the Kastanis Case, UACDL Seminar, Park City, Utah

May 1994 Speaker at the Society of Women Engineers Banquet

May 1994 Participant in NACDL Legislative Fly-In, Washington, DC

June 1994 Speaker: Junk Science and the Kastanis Case, Wyoming Public Defender Conference, Saratoga, Wyoming

June 1994 Panel Participant on Ethics and Effective Assistance of Counsel, Utah State Bar Convention

October 1994 Speaker at Criminal Process Class, University of Utah Law School

January 1995 Speaker at Footprinters International Association about the role of the defense lawyer

February 1995 Speaker at the Hinckley Institute of Politics, University of Utah

February 1995 Speaker at Utah County Bar Association re: Closing Arguments

February 1995 Celebrity Chef, Benihana of Tokyo, for Travelers Aid Society of Utah

March 1995 Panel Member on Discussion of Merits of the American vs. English System of Justice and the movie QBVII

April 1995 Speaker, National Writers' Workshop, Salt Lake City, Utah

April 1995 Speaker, New Lawyers CLE Program, Utah State Bar re: Criminal Procedure

June 1995 Panel Member, Utah State Bar Meeting in San Diego, California, discussing Anatomy of a Murder

July 1995 Read for Public Television Series "Utah: The Struggle for Statehood"

October 1995 Panelist on Great Basin Human Rights Conference, Weber State University

November 1995 Speaker, Westminster College, 14th Annual Weldon J. Taylor Executive Lecture Series: "America: Land of the Imprisoned"

December 1995 Speaker, Salt Lake Acting Company: "Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches" (regarding Roy Cohn)

March 1996 Speaker, Utah Sate Bar Mid-Year Meeting

March 1996 Speaker Debating Minimum Mandatory Punishments with Paul Cassell

April 1996 Speaker, Utah Court Reporters association Spring Seminar, Snowbird, Utah

May 1996 Speaker, Law Day Seminar

May 1996 Commencement Speaker, Phillips Junior College Graduation

July 1996 Speaker, Utah State Bar Annual Meeting, Sun Valley, Idaho

October 1996 Speaker, Death Penalty Seminar, Fair Trial/Free Press Issues

November 1996 Speaker, Criminal Process Class, University of Utah Law School

January 1997 Speaker at Awards Assembly, Mount Jordan Middle School

March 1997 Speaker, Provo Rotary Club, Provo, Utah

March 1997 Speaker, Mid-Year Bar Meeting, St. George, Utah

July 1997 Speaker, Utah State Bar Annual Conference, Sun Valley, Utah, re: (1) Public Employees Ethics Act; (2) Victims' Rights Panel; (3) Eyewitness I.D.: Film

September 1997 Panel, Minimum Mandatory Sentences Seminar, Salt Lake City, Utah

October 1997 Speaker, "Making Waves: Controversial Art in Utah," Utah Arts Center, Salt Lake City, Utah

November 1997 Speaker, Criminal Law Update, "Self-Defense, Defense of Habitation and Defense of Third Parties," Salt Lake City, Utah

July 1998 Speaker, Utah Prosecutors' Conference, Cedar City, Utah

November 1998 Speaker, Death Penalty Seminar, Mitigation Techniques

December 1998 Member, Committee to Select Conflict of Interest Contract Attorneys for Salt Lake Legal Defender Association

April 1999 Speaker, UMAA Spring Conference, "Gee! I hope I didn't Defend you," Springdale, Utah

April 1999 Speaker, UACDL Conference, re: Ethics, Salt Lake City, Utah

May 1999 Speaker, Litigation with the Stars, re: "Lawyers and the Media: Telling Tales," Salt Lake City, Utah

June 1999 Speaker, Hinckley Center, Salt Lake City, Utah

August 1999 Speaker, Montana Bar, Helena, Montana

September 1999 Panelist, Utah State Judicial Counsel, Judges Conference on the role of expert witnesses; Judge as Gatekeeper

May 9, 2000, Salt Lake County Bar Speaker, The Law is Not a Jealous Mistress and Lawyers are Not the Enemy. CLE Luncheon

June 2000 Speaker, Hinckley Institute, "The Rights of Society vs. The Rights of the Accused"

August 2000 Santa Clara University CACJ, 2000 faculty and lecture on Death Penalty

August 2000 Annual Western All-State Conference, Federal Defenders of Washington and Idaho, Faculty and Lecturer

December, 2000, Ethics Seminar, Utah State Bar, Faculty and lecture.

June, 2001, Evidence Seminar, Lormar, Faculty Lecture.

Member, Utah Professional (Boxing) Commission, appointed by Governor Michael Leavitt, 2001.

April, 2002, UACDL Seminar, Speaker on “History of the Joe Hill Case”.

June, 2002, Effective Cross-Examination Seminar, Speaker.

September, 2002, Annual Amnesty International Film Festival, Salt Lake City, Utah, Keynote Speaker.

Speaker at the Hinkley Institute annually since 1995

December 2003 Speaker at the Criminal Procedure for General Practioner.

May 9, 2005 Speaker at the Paralegal CLE Conference at Snowbird.

March, 2005, Deseret News Basketball All State Awards Banquet.

March 10, 2005, Honors Program presentation, University of Utah

May 9, 2005, Attorney General Paralegal Conference, Speaker on the Role of the Defense Attorney

November 11, 2005, Speech on Closing Arguments for the Utah State Bar

November 18, 2005, Orrin G. Hatch Distinguished Trial Lawyer Conference, Speaking on Basic Principles of Trial Advocacy: A Criminal Trial Lawyer’s Perspective

March 18th, 2006, Speech on Why I am A Defense Attorney, for the Weber County Bar Association in Ogden, Utah

March 21st, 2006,Speech before the Italian American Lawyers Association on the Funeral Oration of Pericles

May 5, 2006, Speech for Graduation Dinner, at S.J. Quinney College, for the Class of 2006

May 18th, 2006, Speech for the Utah Paralegal Seminar on the practice of law

December 7th, 2006, Utah Trial Lawyers Association, Combating Hardball Tactics V: Ethical and Practical Responses, So You Took the “Occasional” Criminal Case?

March, 2007, Keynote Speaker, 20th Annual Mr. Basketball/Ms. Basketball Allstate Awards, Deseret News

June, 21, 2007, Keynote Speaker, Seminar for Ray, Quinney, Nebeker, Headlines in the Criminal Justice System.

November 2, 2007, Keynote Speaker, Seminar by the Utah Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, 2007 Capital Representation Seminar

May 27, 2008, Speaker, Utah Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons showing the film, Conviction: The story of Three Dominican Sisters Arrested for Anti-Nuclear Protests

November 8, 2008, Speaker, Orrin G. Hatch Distinguished Trial Lawyer Lecture Series, The Art of Closing Argument

March 5, 2009, Speaker, BYU Professor Cameron’s class, The Law and Literature

August 27, 2009, Speaker, Distinguished Trial Lawyer, Lecture Series, BYU Law School

September 8, 2009, Speaker, Salt Lake City Film Center and American Civil Liberties Union concerning the Documentary, William Kunzler, Disturbing the Universe

American Board of Criminal Lawyers

National Association of Criminal Lawyers

California Attorneys for Criminal Justice

Utah Criminal Lawyers Association

Society for the Reform of Criminal Law

United States Supreme Court Bar

5th, 9th, 10th Circuit Court Bar Association

Utah State Bar Association

Monatana State Bar Association

Italian-American Lawyers Association of California

Italian-American Lawyers Association of Utah

Croatian-American Bar Association

International Society for Reform of Criminal Law

Named in compilation "The Best Lawyers in America" 1987 to 2004

Awarded the "Best Trial Lawyer of the Year" from the Utah Chapter of the American Board of Trial Lawyers for 987

Award in Appreciation for Contributions to the Centro Civico Mexicano Youth Athletic Program

Public Service Award from the University of Utah Political Science Fraternity 1990-91

Outstanding Trial Advocate in Utah from the Trial Advocacy Student Association of Brigham Young University, 1992

Best Radical, Private Eye Newspaper Poll, 1991-92; 1992-93; 1993-94; Runner Up 1995-96

Best Columnist, Private Eye Newspaper Poll, 1992-93; 1993-94, 1996

Utah Press Association, First Place, Feature Columnist, 1996

Cross-Cultural Award from Pacific Islanders Student Association, University of Utah, 1997

Historical Consultant, documentary ‘Joe Hill’, produced by KUER, 1999.

Gold Special Jury award, Worldfest film festival, Houston, Texas, 1999.

Utah Business Best Criminal Defense Lawyer, 2003.

Utah Business Best Lawyers in Utah, 2003-2004.

Utah Business Utah Legal Elite, 2004.

The Best Lawyers in America, 2006 Edition

The Best Lawyers in America, 2007 Edition

Utah Business Utah Legal Elite, 2007.

The Best Lawyers in America, 25th Anniversary Edition (2008)

Utah Business Utah Legal Elite, 2008.

The Best Lawyers in America, (2009)

Utah Business Utah Legal Elite, 2009.

2009 Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers

Utah Business, “Top Lawyers in Utah” 2009

American Registry Highest Rating in Legal Ability and Ethical Standards, 2009

The Best Lawyers in America (2010)

Published, co-authored article, Presentencing Reports: The Right of Disclosure, 2 Journal of Contemporary Law 1975 (with Christine Decker)

Published article in the 1986 Utah Law Review, Volume 3, 1986, entitled "Child Sexual Abuse Cases: Videotaping"

Article, Confessions and the Right to Counsel: Brewer v. Williams, Criminal Defense Magazine, 1978 (with Dominic Gentile)

Co-author, The Law is An Ass, A Collection of Legal Quotations, 1987

The Role of Defense Lawyer, Utah Beat (Utah Fraternal Order of Police, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1989)

Regular Columnist, The Private Eye Newspaper, 1985-1997

Columnist, Utah Holiday Magazine

Columnist, Bench and Bar Journal

Columnist, Neo-Analyst

Columnist, Inkslinger (King's English Book Shop Newsletter)

Article, An Interview with John Mortimer, Inkslinger Magazine, March, 1997

Appeared in Voir Dire Magazine, Winger, 1997

Regular Columnist, The Salt Lake City Observer, 1998-1999.

Regular Columnist, The Catalyst 1999-2000.

Board of Director, Italian Center for the West, 2005

Readin’ Right, KSL TELEVISION FAMILY NOW

Joe Hill

Utah Statehood Centennial