Current Courses
Spring 2025
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HONOR 3374-001
Special Topics
Fall 2024
Courses I Teach
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LAW 7891
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Technology & Modern Litigation
This course focuses on how technology has fundamentally altered every stage of the litigation process and explores the evolving case authorities and ethical standards resulting from technological change -
LAW 7080
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Pretrial Practice
A practical skills course focusing on the pre-trial litigation process from initial client interviews up to trial and/or settlement -
LAW 7842
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Taking & Defending Depositions
This is a skills course designed to prepare a young lawyer in the art of taking and defending depositions -
LAW 7884
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Information Privacy Law
This course focuses on personal privacy in the age of information abundance -
LAW 7080
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Client Crisis Management
This course focuses on the role of the lawyer in managing or resolving a high profile client crises and explores common practical, ethical and legal issues that arise. -
Honors 3374
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Social Media & Courts
This course is part of the Preparation for Legal Studies course offerings and focuses on how social media has impacted the judicial system. -
Honors 3374
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Privacy in a Digital Age
This course is part of the Preparation for Legal Studies course offerings and focuses on the privacy issues created in today's digital age. -
UGS 2260
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Privacy & Surveillance
This course is part of the "Block U' program for selected entering first year students and explores the often competing issues of personal privacy and surveillance. -
3700
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Honors Praxis Lab on Big Data & Algorithms
The promise and peril of living in a data-driven society where big data is prevalent and machine decision-making is growing rapidly -
Honors 3700
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Truth, Deception & Information Disorder
This Honors College Praxis Lab critically examines how fake News, misinformation and disinformation campaigns, hyperbole and the general war on truth is threatening our very democracy. -
LAW 3609
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Lawsuits and Litigation
This is a course in the Masters of Legal Studies degree program and introduces the role of civil lawsuits in society, with a particular emphasis on how the U.S. state and federal courts affect businesses, individuals and government. -
Law 7940-001
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Judicial Process
This course explores the judicial process as a complex system comprised of many interdependent components and players. The course complements a judicial clinic taken contemporaneously with the course.
Professional Organizations
- Media Law Resource Center Defense Counsel Section. 01/2012 - present. Position : Member.
- American Bar Association. 01/1977 - present. Position : Member.
- Utah State Bar. 08/1976 - present. Position : Member.
Small Group Teaching
- Honors College Praxis Lab "Truth, Deception and Information Disorder" . 08/22/2019 - 04/16/2020
- Faculty Advisor/Facilitator for Honors College Legal Scholars . 08/21/2017 - 05/01/2020
- Honors College Praxis Lab "When Machines Decide: The Promise and Peril of Living in a Data-Driven Society.". 08/22/2016 - 05/05/2017
- Honors College Praxis Lab "Transparency and Privacy in a Web 2.0 World.". 08/22/2011 - 05/04/2012