Utah State Bar
| Formation | 1931 |
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| Type | Legal Society |
| Headquarters | Salt Lake City, UT |
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Membership
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7,277 in 2012 (725 out of state) |
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President
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John R. Lund |
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President-Elect
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H. Dickson Burton |
| Website | http://www.utahbar.org/ |
Utah State Bar'is the integrated (mandatory) bar association of the U.S. state of Utah. It is funded by dues from member attorneys. It is not funded by the State of Utah.
Starting around 1851, lawyers in the Territory of Utah would petition the Supreme Court for admission and, once admitted, were members of the bar of all the courts in the territory; essentially, there was a Bar of the Territory of Utah, but no bar association until 1884. Informal associations of Utah lawyers began no later than the early 1900s. In 1931 the Utah legislature passed a law designating the Utah State Bar to manage and regulate the legal profession in the state. In 1985 the Utah State Constitution was amended to clarify that regulation of the legal profession was under the judicial branch through the Utah Supreme Court, under which the Bar continued its regulatory and public interest services.
The Bar is managed by a Board of Commissioners including thirteen voting members, eleven elected lawyers and two non-lawyers appointed by the Court.The Commission also includes non-voting ex officio members: the deans of the University of Utah Law School and Brigham Young University Law School, the Bar's delegate to the American Bar Association, the Utah American Bar Association members' delegate to the ABA, the president of the Young Lawyers Division, and representatives from the Women Lawyers of Utah, the Utah Minority Bar Association, the Bar's representative to the Utah Judicial Council, and the Past President of the Bar.
The Bar enforces the rule that Utah lawyers must complete 24 credits of Continuing Legal Education every two years.
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