MICHAEL D. LICHFIELD, associate

Michael has been practicing law in Utah since 2000. For more than a decade, he has represented clients in the insurance defense arena. Previously, he clerked for a Fourth District Court Judge in Provo and externed with a Justice of the Utah Supreme Court. Michael has litigated construction defect, property liability, personal injury, and disability law cases, as well as medical malpractice defense. He has briefed matters before the Utah Court of Appeals, Utah Supreme Court, and Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. Michael speaks Spanish.

EDUCATION

J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University
Juris Doctor, April 2000
cum laude
Farr Scholarship recipient
Law Review, Fall 1999, Winter 2000
Journal of Education & Law, Fall 1998, Winter 1999

Brigham Young University
Bachelor of Arts, August 1997
summa cum laude
University Honor and Honors in English
Trustees’ Four-Year Tuition Scholarship, 1991
Phi Kappa Phi Honors Society, 1996

ADMISSIONS

Utah State Bar, 2000
United States District Court for the District of Utah, 2000
Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, 2004
Health Law section of the Utah State Bar
Salt Lake County Bar Association
Utah Defense Lawyers Association
Association of Defense Trial Attorneys
A. Sherman Christensen American Inn of Court, Student Member

EXPERIENCE

Stucki & Rencher
Associate
2011 - Present

Nelson Chipman & Burt
Associate
2002 – 2011

Utah Fourth District Court, the Honorable Ray Harding
Law Clerk/Baliff
2000 – 2001

LANGUAGES

Spanish