Resume
Legal Experience
1993
1993
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science
- President, Pi Beta Phi
- Dean’s List
- Chief Justice, Greek Judiciary
1997
1997
Valley Mental Health, Salt Lake City, UT
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Supervision for Residential Treatment and Crisis Line
- Supervised employees in treating the chronically mentally ill; supervised the twenty-four-hour crisis line for suicide prevention and community outreach
1997
University of Utah, College of Social Work, Salt Lake City, UT
Master’s Degree in Social Work
1998
1998
The Children’s Service Society of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Supervisor and LCSW, Birth Parents and Teen Pregnancy Department.
- Counseled birth parents regarding adoption, counseled at-risk teen parents, created, and taught curricula, labor and delivery coach, supervised staff of four
2002
2002
Utah Attorney General, Salt Lake City, UT
Summer Clerk
- Performed legal research and summary documents for use in the criminal appeals division
2003
2003
S. J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Doctorate
- Utah Law Review, Senior Staff Member
- First Place, Brief, 1st Amendment Moot Court, Vanderbilt Law School
- Publications: 2003 UT L.Rev. 881, “Fatal Flaws in the Food and Drug Administration’s DrugApproval Formula”
- 2003 Res Gestae, “Don’t Mess with the Bean, Diary of a 3L” and 2001 Res Gestae, “Diary of a 1L.”
- Tutor, Academic Support Program for Tort and Constitutional Law
- President, Women’s Law Group
2004
2004
Utah Supreme Court, Justice Ronald E. Nehring, Salt Lake City, UT
Clerk
- Performed legal research, drafted memoranda, assisted in drafting opinions, supervised student interns and externs
2004
Tracy Aviary, Salt Lake City, UT
Board Member
- Served on the Board of Trustees to assist with fund raising, management of the aviary, personnel, budget
oversight, and address contract and legal issues
2005
2005
S. J. Quinney College of Law, Salt Lake City, UT
Young Alumni Board Member
- Assisted in fundraising, alumni development, and liaison work in the community
2006
2006
Legal Aid Society of Utah
Board Member
- Assisted in fundraising particularly with the annual fall fundraiser to obtain items for auction, fill tables, generate themes and assist with any other development worth
2008
2008
Jones Waldo Holbrook & McDonough, PC, Salt Lake City, UT
Associate
- Domestic and Personal Injury litigation – performing all aspects of litigation including client development, legal research, drafting pleading and motions, taking, and defending depositions, arguing numerous motions in court, and trying cases as first and second chair
- Utah Legal Elite 2009 and 2010
- Super Lawyers Rising Star, 2008
2010
2010
Parsons Behle & Latimer, Salt Lake City, UT
Of Counsel
- Domestic litigation – performing all aspects of litigation including client development, legal research, drafting pleading and motions, taking, and defending depositions, arguing numerous motions in court, and trying cases as first and second chair
- Super Lawyers Rising Star 2010 onward
- Utah Legal Elite 2010-onward
2010
Van Cott Bagley Cornwall &McCarthy, Salt Lake City, UT
Associate
- Domestic litigation – performing all aspects of litigation including client development, legal research, drafting pleading and motions, taking, and defending depositions, arguing numerous motions in court, and trying cases as first and second chair
- Super Lawyers Rising Star 2010
2015
2015
Bean Family Law, Salt Lake City, UT Copy
- Domestic/Family Law – Divorce, pre-divorce planning, modifications, child custody, alimony and child support, prenuptial and postnuptial agreements; valuation and division of assets; complex marital estates; paternity; adoptions; common law marriage; annulments; grandparent rights.
- Private Guardian ad Litem
- Parent Coordinator, Special Master and Third-Party Coordinator
- Member, AFCC
- Member, Utah Collaborative Law
- Super Lawyers, current
- Utah Legal Elite, current