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Lori W. Nelson


Phone: 801-534-7354
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FIRM:

Shareholder

PRACTICE FOCUS:

Complex financial family law cases

Leader, Domestic and Family Law Practice Group

EXPERTISE:

Represents individuals in every aspect of a case, including trials, evidentiary hearings, mediation, and collaborative cases.

Advises clients in every aspect of family law, and handles cases involving contract interpretation; the intersection of family law with: corporate law, probate law, intellectual property, real property law, water law, and, partnership law.

CAREER:

Lori is a trained mediator with extensive mediation experience.

Organized the first Women’s Law Caucus scholarship lecture with a panel who presented the Gender and Justice Task Force Report.

EDUCATION:

University of Utah, J.D., 1992

  • National Moot Court Team, member and regional semi finalist

University of Utah, B.S., Philosophy, 1989

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:

Salt Lake County and American Bar Associations, Member, Family Law Section Council, 2008 –, representing Region 5 ( Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas); Member, CLE Committee; Chair, Trial Practice and Techniques Committee

Utah State Bar, Past Chair, Family Law Section Executive Committee; Needs of Children Committee; Bar Commissioner, Third Division, 2005-2011; Co-Chair, Governmental Relations Committee and Legislative Liaison; Member, Judicial Council Standing Committee on Children and Family Law, 2000-2009; Utah State Bar representative on Utah State Judicial Council.

Collaborative Family Lawyers of Utah

Legal Aid Society of Salt Lake, Member of the Board

PERSONAL:

Born, Provo, Utah, 1959

Lori loves cooking, photography, fishing, hiking, cooking, reading, and Teton and Yellowstone National Parks, and more cooking, among other things.

PUBLICATIONS:

"High Income Child Support," ABA Family Law Quarterly, Summer 2011

Industry Awards

NelsonAV

Nelson Best

Best Lawyers in America, Family Law, 2003-2012

Family Law Lawyer of the Year, 2001-2002

Utah Business Magazine, Legal Elite, 2006-2011

Mountain States Super Lawyers, 2007-2012

Bar Admittance

1992, Utah and U.S. District Court, District of Utah