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NELSON T. ABBOTT is a partner in the Provo law firm of Abbott & Associates, P.C., where his main areas of practice are personal injury, automobile accidents and injuries, and medical malpractice. Mr. Abbott has previously lectured for National Business Institute on handling automobile injury cases and also has lectured before other groups of legal professionals on ethics and medical malpractice issues. He is an adjunct professor at Brigham Young University. Mr. Abbot is a member of the Utah State Bar, the Utah Association for Justice and The American Association for Justice. He earned his B.A. degree, M.B.A. degree and J.D. degree, cum laude, from Brigham Young University. CASEY M. ADAMS is an attorney with the Salt Lake City law firm of Jones Waldo Holbrook & McDonough, PC, where his practice focuses on construction and general litigation. Mr. Adams represents developers, builders, owners and design professionals in many types of construction related litigation. He earned his B.S. degree from Brigham Young University and his J.D. degree from S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah. Mr. Adams is recognized as a Legal Elite, Utah Business magazine, 2010, and in Construction Litigation, 2011. He is a member or the Utah State Bar. WILLIAM B. BOHLING is a full-time professional mediator and a retired judge. In mediating hundreds of cases, he has gained extensive experience in complex business, real estate and securities disputes, multiparty construction cases, insurance bad faith and coverage cases, malpractice, tort and product liability cases, as well as emotion-driven, business dissolution, employment and probate cases. Mr. Bohling's successes in resolving these disputes account for his reputation as one of the most skilled and sought after mediators in the state. His 42-year legal career includes 3-years at the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, 5-years as a law professor, 16-years in private practice, and 11-years on Utah's District Court Bench. Mr. Bohling was named the Utah State Bar's 1993 Distinguished Lawyer of the Year, its 2004 Judge of the Year, was awarded UCCR's 2005 Peacekeeper Award, and the 2010 Billings' Award for Excellence in Dispute Resolution. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the International Academy of Mediators, and is listed in the 2007-2011 Utah Business' Legal Elite, the 2008-2011 Best Lawyers in America, and the 2008-2010 Mountain States Super Lawyers. Mr. Bohling's mediation training and experience date back to 1993 when he joined USA&M's mediation panel, and was appointed to the Utah Federal District Court's mediation panel. After his appointment to the Utah District Court Bench, he became the chair of the state judicial council's ADR committee. For ten years, Mr. Bohling was actively engaged in promoting mediation in the state and in establishing a court-annexed mediation program. While on the bench he conducted numerous settlement conferences and mediations. Mr. Bohling also was the trial judge who tried State Farm Mutual Insurance Company v. Campbell, 538 U.S. 408 (2003). His mediation training includes the Harvard Negotiation Insight Initiative Program at the Harvard Law School, the Mediation Process, at CDR Associates, and Advanced Mediation at the Strauss Institute. Mr. Bohling frequently lectures and teaches negotiation and mediation at both basic and advanced levels. JOHN F. FAY is a sole practitioner in Salt Lake City at John Fay, Legal Counsel. He has extensive experience in personal injury litigation and is an experienced litigator in both judge and jury trials, as well as judicial, AAA and UM arbitrations. Mr. Fay has presented hundreds of claims in arbitration. He also has written extensively on personal injury, arbitration and trial work. Mr. Fay wrote a comprehensive text, Arbitrating Personal Injury Claims, published by John Wiley & Sons, and the chapter "Maximizing Damages in Small Personal Injury Cases," in the Insurance Settlement Handbook published by the James Publishing Group. He sat as a judge pro tem for the Los Angeles Superior Court and has served as an arbitrator under the Personal Injury Panel of the Los Angeles Superior Court and the Los Angeles and Salt Lake districts of the American Arbitration Association. Mr. Fay is a member of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America and the Utah Association of Justice (past president, member of board of directors since 1992). He was named in the Utah Business magazine by his peers as one of the best personal injury lawyers in Utah. Mr. Fay is board-certified in civil trials by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. He earned his B.S. degree from Merrimack College and his J.D. degree from Western State University. DOUGLAS J. PARRY is a partner with Robinson Seiler & Anderson, L.C. in the firm's trial group. He concentrates his practice on environmental litigation, general and complex civil litigation, securities fraud, appellate work, and regulatory law. Mr. Parry has represented many national and multi-national integrated companies in all aspects of complex commercial litigation including natural resources and oil and gas litigation, antitrust, breach of contract and operating agreements, and other aspects of commercial operations and disputes. He also has represented major landowners and developers in land development, permitting and environmental matters, leasing and other property disputes, as well as handling major litigation relating to federal superfund sites and other environmental issues. CHARLES L. PERSCHON is an attorney in the law firm of Prince, Yeates & Geldzahler, where he maintains a practice in appellate work and complex commercial litigation. He earned his B.S. degree from the University of Utah and his J.D. degree from the University of Connecticut School of Law, where he was editor-in-chief of the Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal. While in law school, Mr. Perschon was a summer clerk for Presiding Judge Judith M. Billings of the Utah Court of Appeals. He is admitted to practice in Utah and before the U.S. District Court, District of Utah and the U.S. Court of Appeals, 10th Circuit. Mr. Perschon is an associate in the Aldon J. Anderson American Inn of Court and a board member of the Young Lawyers' Division of the Utah State Bar. THOMAS W. SEILER is a partner in the law firm of Robinson Seiler & Anderson, L.C. His areas of practice consist of litigation, personal injury law and real estate law. Mr. Seiler was designated as one of the top 100 commercial litigators and personal injury litigators in Utah by Utah Business magazine. He also has been named as a Super Lawyer. Mr. Seiler is the past president of the Central Utah Bar Association. He also is a member of the Utah State Bar and American Bar Association. In addition, Mr. Seiler is president-elect of the Utah Association for Justice, on the Advisory Committee to the Utah Supreme Court Rules of Evidence and state liaison for American Inns of Court. He earned his B.A. and J.D. degrees from Brigham Young University. JOHN A. SNOW is a shareholder at Van Cott, Bagley, Cornwall & McCarthy, with offices in Utah and Nevada. His practice consists of general civil litigation, including general commercial and business litigation, construction, insurance, professional malpractice and personal injury. Mr. Snow was named in The Best Lawyers in America in the areas of legal malpractice, construction and commercial litigation. He also is designated in Utah Business magazine's Utah Legal Elite in the specialty of civil litigation and as Super Lawyer in the mountain states in Super Lawyers magazine. Mr. Snow speaks extensively in Utah and Nevada for various business and professional groups on his areas of practice. He is a member of the Utah State Bar, the State Bar of Nevada and the American Bar Association. Mr. Snow earned his B.A. degree from Brigham Young University and his J.D. degree, cum laude, from Arizona State University. SARAH E. SPENCER is an attorney with the Salt Lake City law firm of Christensen & Jensen, P.C., where she has significant experience litigating constitutional tort matters. She has handled discovery and motions practice in numerous civil rights cases arising under state and federal law, including cases involving wrongful detention, excessive force, malicious prosecution, substantive and procedural due process, and equal protection. Ms. Spencer has defended government officials and entities sued for violations of constitutional rights, as well as pursued claims on behalf of private citizen plaintiffs whose rights were violated by government actors. She has successfully prosecuted many civil rights appeals before the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, two of which resulted in reversals of district court denials of qualified immunity, and one of which resulted in an affirmance of a grant of qualified immunity, in favor of Ms. Spencer's clients. Ms. Spencer was a co-author of the petition for writ of certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court in the groundbreaking qualified immunity case of Pearson v. Callahan. She earned her B.A. degree from Metropolitan State College of Denver and her J.D. degree from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. Ms. Spencer has published articles with the Defense Research Institute (DRI) regarding civil rights issues, including the impact of the Supreme Court's decision in Pearson v. Callahan on qualified immunity jurisprudence. She is committed to justice, the vindication of constitutional rights, and the integrity of the law enforcement system. HON. W. BRENT WEST was appointed to the 2nd Judicial Circuit Court in March 1984 by Gov. Scott M. Matheson. He became a judge in the 2nd District Court in July 1996. He serves Weber, Davis, and Morgan counties. Judge West has served as presiding judge for both the 2nd Circuit and 2nd District Courts. He currently serves on the Utah Judicial Education Committee and the Utah Grand Jury Panel of Judges. Judge West was in private practice from 1976 to 1979. He served as assistant corporate counsel, assistant city attorney, and chief prosecutor for Ogden City from 1976 until his appointment to the bench. Judge West earned his B.A. degree at the University of Utah and his J.D. degree at Southern Methodist University School of Law.
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