Save the date! The annual holiday dinner dance will be here before you know it. A formal invitation with additional details will be sent in November.

Save the date! The spring dinner dance is returning to its original date and will be here before you know it. A formal invitation with additional details will be sent in May.

Save the date! Trialapalooza will be held on May 4, 2023.

Trialapalooza provides an opportunity for attorneys to have an informal lunch discussion with a number of distinguished trial court judges.

Additional information will be provided closer to the event.

Join us for an evening with Joanna Schwartz, professor of Law at UCLA School of Law and author of Shielded, How the Police Became Untouchable.

Opening reception at 5:30 pm, followed by the event from 6:00-7:00 pm. $25 for drinks, hors d’oeuvres, and 1 hour of CLE (application pending).

Please register via EventBrite.

Parking available at 164 East South Temple

Salt Lake County Bar Association and Federal Bar Association invite you to meet Reginald Dwayne Betts. Betts transformed himself from a sixteen-year-old kid sentenced to nine years in prison to an award-winning author and a graduate of Yale Law School. He has written three critically acclaimed collections of poetry. His autobiography, A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison, is the story of a young man confined in the worst prisons in Virginia, where solitary confinement, horrific conditions, and constant violence threatened to break his humanity.  Betts used the time to turn himself into a poet, a scholar, and an advocate for reform of the criminal justice system.

Wednesday, February 23, 2022 @ THE ALTA CLUB (100 East South Temple) Parking Available at 164 East South Temple

Opening Reception 5:30 p.m., Event 6:00-7:00 p.m.

Free Event and CLE (application pending) Register via EventBrite

$25 suggested donation to Freedom Reads (freedomreads.org)

Masks are recommended, but not required, for attendees

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2021 Holiday Dinner Dance

Friday, December 3, 2021

Cocktails 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.

Dinner and Dancing to Follow

Salt Lake Country Club

2400 East Country Club Drive

All Attendees Must Present Vaccination Cards & Photo ID at Door to Enter

Digital (via Docket App) Vaccination Cards Welcome

$85 per person for SLCBA Members and Guests

Reservations may be made via Eventbrite

RSVP early as this event sells out quickly

Non-SLCBA Members and Guests Welcome to Attend Subject to Seat Availability

$95 per person (E-Mail LAHansen@hollandhart.com to be Placed on Waitlist)

This conference brings together experts for a series of panel discussions on new/alternative treatments for domestic violence offenders.

About this Event

Domestic Violence (DV) has a profound effect on individuals, families, and communities throughout the State of Utah. Although jurisdictions vary in the ways they criminalize and prosecute DV crimes, most stakeholders agree that more effective treatment options are needed to reduce recidivism in a meaningful way. This conference brings together three panels to better inform attendees of the current practices in Salt Lake County and then will provide some options for improving on those practices.

First, we will hear from a panel of local practitioners regarding the current methods of addressing DV crimes in Salt Lake County.

Next, we will hear researchers at New York University's Center on Violence and Recovery and the University of Utah regarding their work with restorative justice-informed treatments for DV offenders.

Finally, we will hear from members of Utah's Domestic Violence Offender Taskforce (DVOT) regarding a new tool they are developing to improve sentencing practices and treatment outcomes.

The CLE will start promptly at 12:00. Lunch will be provided. 1.5 hours of CLE, pending approval.

Practitioner's Panel:

John Baxter, Salt Lake City Justice Court Judge;

Josh Graves, Deputy District Attorney and Supervisor of the Family Protection Unit;

Luke Henry, Salt Lake Legal Defender Association.

Restorative Justice Study Panel:

Linda G. Mills, J.D., MSW, Ph.D., Executive Director of New York University's Center on Violence and Recovery;

Briana Barocas, Ph.D., Director of Research of New York University's Center on Violence and Recovery;

Rob Butters, Ph.D., LCSW, Former Director of the Utah Criminal Justice Center.

DVOT Panel:

Elizabeth Albertsen, Psy. D., Lead Psychologist, Valley Behavioral Health;

Derrik Tollefson, PhD, LCSW, Professor of Social Work, Utah State University.

Appealapalooza provides an opportunity for attorneys to have an informal lunch discussion with Utah’s distinguished appellate judges.  RSVP HERE

About this Event

PLEASE JOIN US ON THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2020 at the Matheson Courthouse conference room in W18 for Appealapalooza. Appealapalooza provides an opportunity for attorneys to have an informal lunch discussion with Utah’s distinguished appellate judges.

This year, we’re honored to have a number of judges and justices attending, including Justice John Pearce from the Utah Supreme Court, Judge Gregory Orme, Judge Michele Christiansen Forster, Judge Mary Kate Appleby, Judge Diana Hagen, Judge Ryan Harris, and Judge David Mortenson from the Utah Court of Appeals, and Judge Carolyn McHugh from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

RSVP as soon as possible. Limited seating available. We expect this event to sell out.

NEW DATE!!! Please join us for a screening of the new PBS Documentary "College Behind Bars" by Ken Burns

About this Event

Please join us for a presentation ON MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2019, with Dr. Erin L. Castro, Judge Clemens Landau, and Matthew Holman as they discuss Utah Prison Education Project (UPEP) and the state of higher education in Utah’s prison system. UPEP runs yearlong at the prison and courses are offered on a two-semester schedule. At this time, UPEP is a non-credit program and is actively fundraising to cover costs associated with enrollment. Incarcerated students are not asked to financially pay for participation in UPEP.

In addition to this panel discussion, we will be showing the first half of College Behind Bars, a film series directed by award-winning filmmaker Lynn Novick, produced by Sarah Botstein and Ken Burns. College Behind Bars tells the story of a small group of incarcerated men and women struggling to earn college degrees and turn their lives around in one of the most rigorous and effective prison education programs in the United States – the Bard Prison Initiative. Shot over four years in maximum and medium security prisons in New York State, the four-hour film takes viewers on a stark and intimate journey into one of the most pressing issues of our time – our failure to provide meaningful rehabilitation for the over two million Americans living behind bars.

There will be food. You are on your own for drinks though. And there will hopefully be 3 hours of CLE, pending approval. Our apologies about the change in the date of this event.

PLEASE JOIN US ON TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2019, at the Matheson Courthouse Jury room at 11:45 a.m. for Trialapalooza. Trialapalooza provides an opportunity for attorneys to have an informal lunch discussion with a number of distinguished trial court judges.

This year, we're honored to have a number of distinguished trial judges including Judge Su Chon, Patrick Corum, Rich McKelvie, Rich Mrazik, Randy Skanchy, Royal Hansen, Kara Pettit, Mark Kouris, Amber Mettler, and others. One hour of CLE credit, pending approval. Brought to you by the Salt Lake County Bar Association.

RSVP AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. LIMITED SEATING AVAILABLE. WE EXPECT THIS EVENT TO SELL OUT.

PLEASE JOIN US THURSDAY, MAY 16, 2019, at Brewvies Cinema Pub for a screening of the documentary, RBG, a documentary on the life and career of the second female Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

The documentary will be followed by a CLE led by Professors Clifford Rosky and RonNell Anderson Jones regarding a number of compelling cases currently before the U.S. Supreme Court this term, incluidng several Title VII cases analyzing whether Title VII prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation or based on gender identity.

Clifford Rosky is Professor of Law at the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law, where he teaches courses on constitutional law, criminal law, sexuality and law, and mindfulness and law. Rosky's recent scholarship includes "Anti-Gay Curriculum Laws," "Scrutinizing Immutability," "Same-Sex Marriage and Children's Right to Be Queer,” and "Still Not Equal: A Report from the Red States.” He is a two-time recipient of the Dukeminier Award, which recognizes the best legal scholarship on sexual orientation and gender identity published each year. In addition, he has received several awards for his teaching and service. In recent years, Rosky has served as the primary author and advocate for SB 296 (2015), SB 196 (2017), and SB 103 (2019), Utah laws that protect LGBT people from discrimination in education, employment, housing, and hate crimes. In addition, Rosky's recent article in the Columbia Law Review provided the foundation for Equality Utah v. Utah State Board of Education and Equality Arizona v. Hoffman, the country's first lawsuits successful challenging the constitutionality of statewide anti-gay curriculum laws.

Professor RonNell Andersen Jones is an Affiliated Fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project and the Lee E. Teitelbaum Endowed Chair and Professor of Law at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law. A former newspaper reporter and editor, Professor Jones is a First Amendment scholar who teaches, researches and writes on legal issues affecting the press and on the intersection between media and the courts, with a particular emphasis on the United States Supreme Court. Her scholarship addresses issues of press access and transparency and the role of the press as a check on government. She is also a widely cited national expert on reporter’s privilege and newsgathering rights and a regular speaker on emerging areas of social media law. Her scholarly work has appeared in numerous books and journals, including Northwestern Law Review, Michigan Law Review, UCLA Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, and the Harvard Law Review Forum. She is also a regular public commentator on press freedom issues. Her op-eds have been published in several major news outlets, including CNN and The New York Times, and her research has been quoted in Newsweek, the Washington Post, the New York Times and other national publications.