Outstanding Mentor Award

BRADY BRAMMER

Mr. Brammer is Spaulding Law’s primary litigator. He litigates commercial, real estate, and government matters in both and .

Mr. Brammer also serves as an elected representative in Utah’s House of Representatives. Currently, he serves on the Judiciary Committee, Business and Labor Committee, and is the co- chair of the Infrastructure and General Government Appropriations Subcommittee.

Mr. Brammer is an avid golfer, skier, cyclist and runner. He and his wife Nicki have five children (including two sets of twins).

EDUCATION • J.D., Brigham Young University (2008) • MPA, Brigham Young University (2008) • B.A., Brigham Young University (2004)

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2019 FALL FORUM Outstanding Mentor Award

KYLE V. LEISHMAN

For nearly two decades Kyle V. Leishman has represented clients with real estate, commercial finance and general corporate needs. His real estate practice includes significant acquisition and development projects including industrial developments, residential and commercial condominium projects, hotel projects, assisted living projects, charter school projects, general commercial developments and varied types of multi-use developments. Such developments recently include new Opportunity Fund transactions made available under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. In addition to acquisition and development experience, Kyle has extensive experience negotiating and drafting complex leases representing both landlords and tenants. Leasing experience includes big-box retail leases, industrial leases, restaurant leases, office leases and general commercial leasing.

Kyle is also a member of the Commercial Finance Group and has significant experience representing lenders primarily, but also borrowers with respect to acquisition and development loans, construction loans, mezzanine loans and other secured transactions. In addition to negotiating and documenting loans, Kyle has been involved in numerous loan workouts, forbearance arrangements and has significant experience with residential and commercial foreclosures including several large residential developments as well as other recreational project workouts and foreclosures.

His corporate experience includes representation of a variety of clients with respect to commercial joint ventures, business formation, mergers and acquisitions and general corporate matters. Additionally, Kyle represents several non-profit corporations. Most recently Kyle has been engaged to assist early stage technology, biotechnology and education technology start- up companies and has successfully helped several companies obtain seed and early stage financing. Kyle has also represented venture capital companies with respect to investment in such companies.

Kyle is a member of the Jones Waldo Board of Directors and is the Chair of the Business Development Committee.

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2019 FALL FORUM Community Member Award

DETECTIVE GREGORY L. SMITH

Detective Greg Smith has more than forty veteran was part of the Utah Veteran’s years of law enforcement experience and is Treatment Court in , Utah. currently a compliance officer for the Third The judge was so impressed that District Veterans Court in Salt Lake County. He he recalled the bench warrant and and has been involved in eight live firearm returned the veteran to the custody of encounters and worked as a hostage Detective Smith for purposes of negotiator. In nominating Detective Smith transportation back to the Veteran’s for this award, Judge Royal Hansen said: Treatment Court in Salt Lake County.

Equally important to these heroics as Detective Smith entertains calls a detective…is the service that he throughout the day and night. He has renders to our military veterans. developed a relationship with each veteran and serves as a surrogate Detective Smith meets with each new parent. He is the first person that court veteran when he picks them up veterans call when they are in trouble, at the Adult Detention Center. He and the last person they thank and arranges for a pancake breakfast and delivers hug when they are successful in the program. the veterans to their assigned treatment center under the supervision of the Veterans Dedicated, disciplined and focused, Detective Smith has Administration Hospital. decades of in-depth experience in law enforcement including well over 150 S.W.A.T. operations, as a hostage negotiator, He visits the veterans at their homes to ensure bomb technician, suspicious package investigations, that they are residing in crime free and drug free apprehension and prosecution of armed felons, hostage environment.…When veterans relapse or commit situations, and undercover operations. He spent over 6 new crimes, Detective Smith is the contact to triage years in detective assignments including financial crimes the immediate problem. One of the veterans in our unit, burglary, and pawns and additional years assigned to court has a felony warrant in Idaho. The state of larceny, vice, licensing, and domestic violence. Each Idaho wanted to extradite the veteran…for assignment included hundreds of follow up investigations, prosecution. In lieu of extradition, Detective Smith interviews, and interrogations as well as screening transported the veteran from Salt Lake County complaints in both Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County jail to the Idaho court judge…at his own time Prosecutors Offices, obtaining warrants and serving them and expense…in response to the court warrant. on defendants, as well as preparing return of warrant Detective Smith…explained to the judge that the service to the courts.

______Professional Accomplishments include ______• Recipient of the Salt Lake City Police “Police Medal” and • Awarded the Salt Lake City Police “Police Distinguished State of Utah “Gold Medal of Valor” and recognition as Service Medal” for an off duty shootout with an armed Co-Officer of the Month for rescuing wounded officers in robbery suspect. a Violent Offenders Task Force shoot out. • Awarded “Police Distinguished Unit Citation” for • Recipient the Salt Lake City Police “Police Medal” for rescuing negotiating a successful release of a hostage by an wounded citizens and an officer, as well as confronting armed robber in an officer involved shooting incident. the suspect at the LDS Genealogical Library shoot out. • Recognized as “Officer of the Month” for identifying and • Awarded the Salt Lake City Police “Police Distinguished arresting a burglary ring responsible for 125 residential Service Medal” for confronting an aggravated bank burglaries. robbery suspect and keeping him from taking any hostages.

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2019 FALL FORUM Distinguished Service Award

DEAN ROBERT W. ADLER

Robert W. Adler is a Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law. He recently stepped down after a six-year term as the Jefferson B. and Rita E. Fordham Dean. He teaches and writes in the areas of environmental law and water law. His books include Water Law: Concepts and Insights (Foundation Press 2017, with Craig and Hall); Modern Water Law: Private Property, Public Rights and Environmental Protection (Foundation Press, 2013, second edition 2018, with Craig and Hall); Restoring Colorado River Ecosystems: A Troubled Sense of Immensity (2007); Environmental Law: A Conceptual and Pragmatic Approach (with Driesen, 2007 and Driesen and Engel, second edition 2011, third edition 2016); and The Clean Water Act: Twenty Years Later (with Landman and Cameron, 1993). He has also written dozens of articles on various aspects of domestic and international environmental and water law and policy. Before coming to the College of Law in 1994, he practiced environmental law for 15 years at the Natural Resources Defense Council, Trustees for Alaska, and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources.

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2019 FALL FORUM Pro Bono Attorney of the Year

BRIAN M. ROTHSCHILD

Mr. Rothschild focuses his practice on turning distressed situations and into distressed opportunities. Mr. Rothschild helps clients navigate complex commercial litigation – often in United States Bankruptcy Courts – to achieve their goals.

Mr. Rothschild assists clients in chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, FDIC, SEC, and state law receiverships, assignments for the benefit of creditors, out-of-court restructurings, and distressed asset sales, mergers, and acquisitions. His experience includes bankruptcy appellate matters, including matters before the United States Supreme Court, and the liquidation/reorganization of national financial institutions, bank holding companies, gas, mining, and natural resource properties, manufacturers, tech companies, real-estate holding companies, agricultural concerns, and entertainment companies. He represents debtors, creditors, and other parties in interest, including executives and officers.

Mr. Rothschild also has a vibrant complex commercial litigation and transactional practice.

Mr. Rothschild is also committed to providing pro bono representation for deserving individuals and causes. He has provided service in cases involving prisoner civil rights under the United States Constitution, adoption, public benefits issues, veterans’ benefits, and bankruptcy nondischargeability and unlawful evictions in violation of the automatic stay for individual debtors in chapter 7. He serves as the attorney supervisor for the Debtors’ Clinic run by the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah’s Pro Bono Initiative.

Mr. Rothschild teaches chapter 11 business reorganization at the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah where he serves as an adjunct faculty lecturer.

Prior to joining Parsons Behle & Latimer, Mr. Rothschild was an attorney with Peitzman Weg LLP and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP.

After earning his J.D. from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, Mr. Rothschild served as law clerk to Chief Justice Matthew B. Durrant of the Supreme Court of Utah.

While pursuing his law degree, he served as judicial extern to the Honorable Richard L. Speer of the Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Ohio and to the Honorable Richard M. Neiter of the Bankruptcy Court for the Central .

Mr. Rothschild is also a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) and the Turnaround Management Association (TMA) and past president of the Salt Lake Chapter of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society and currently serves as pro bono chair.

Mr. Rothschild formerly managed and represented amateur and professional boxers and was licensed by the California Athletic Commission.

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2019 FALL FORUM Pro Bono Attorney of the Year

GEORGE R. SUTTON

George Sutton is a finance attorney at Jones Waldo. He served as the Utah Commissioner of Financial Institutions from 1987 to 1993, where he was responsible for regulating all state chartered depository institutions and all consumer financial services providers in Utah. A University of Utah graduate, Mr. Sutton helped draft the Utah Consumer Credit Code, the Utah Mortgage Originators and Servicers Act, laws regulating escrow agents, and three bills amending the Utah Financial Institutions Act. He served as president and CEO of two industrial banks and helped organize several others.

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2019 FALL FORUM Charlotte L. Miller Mentoring Award

KATHLEEN MCCONKIE

Born in New York City and educated in New York and London, England, Kathleen McConkie was awarded her Juris Doctor degree in 1983 from Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota. She also completed additional legal study at Oxford University.

She is Senior Partner in the law firm of McConkie | Collinwood, a general litigation practice located in Bountiful, Utah which she established in 2003 after practicing law for many years in Salt Lake City. Active in community affairs, Kathleen has been a candidate for Davis County Commissioner and for the U.S. House of Representatives. She was appointed by Governor Herbert to serve as a commissioner on the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.

In addition to the Utah Bar, she has been admitted to practice law in the United States Court of Appeals and the United States Tax Court and has argued before the Utah Supreme Court as well as the 9th and 10th Federal Appellate Courts.

She is the sister of attorney Jim McConkie. She is married to fellow attorney, Dean Collinwood, and three of their children and two of their daughters-in-law are also lawyers.

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2019 FALL FORUM Paul T. Moxley Mentoring Award

SUSAN B. PETERSON

Susan Peterson is the current Chair of the Real Estate Department at Jones Waldo. The expertise of Jones Waldo’s Real Estate Department, as well as that of its individual members, has long been recognized in national publications and rating services.

Susan has over 25 years of experience assisting clients in real estate based commercial lending and real estate transactions throughout the western United States, including acquisition, leasing, and financing of retail, resort, and other commercial properties, and the development and governance of condominium and other common ownership interest developments.

Susan is a Fellow in the American College of Mortgage Attorneys. As a member of Jones Waldo’s real estate finance group, she has extensive experience in representing banks, financial institutions and borrowers in a wide range of real property secured lending transactions within and outside of Utah, including negotiating and documenting sophisticated real estate financings, revolving credit facilities, construction lending, acquisition financings, securitized financings, tax-credit financings, and deed-in-lieu transactions. She has been involved in real estate finance transactions involving office buildings, mixed office and retail projects, commercial projects, hotels, apartment complexes, resort properties, residential properties and raw land.

Susan attended J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University, where she was the first woman from the law school to be chosen as a Hinckley Scholar. She graduated magna cum laude in 1992 and is a member of the Order of the Coif.

Susan is a member of the Utah State Bar Association and American Bar Association. She was a founder and a former Board Chair of CREW Utah (Commercial Real Estate Women Network). She is a former director of the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce Women’s Business Center and the Legal Aid Society of Salt Lake.

Susan has a Martindale-Hubbell, AV Preeminent Rating. She received a Pathfinder Award from the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce in 2005 and the Dorathy Merrill Brothers Award for the Advancement of Women in the Legal Profession from the Utah State Bar Association in 2008.

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2019 FALL FORUM James B. Lee Mentoring Award

WALTER A. ROMNEY, JR.

Walter A. Romney, Jr. is a Director and Shareholder at Clyde Snow & Sessions. He has been with Clyde Snow since graduating from the University of Utah College of Law in 1997. In 2004, he was elected a Director and Shareholder of the firm and served as the Managing Director from 2010–2016. He focuses his practice on complex litigation matters, including employment disputes, intellectual property and trade secrets, commercial litigation, and white collar criminal defense.

Walt has been mentored by many exceptional attorneys throughout his career, including Utah State Bar past-president Rodney G. Snow, who is also a recipient of the James B. Lee Mentoring Award. As a mentor and advocate of the New Lawyer Training Program, Walt has guided many young lawyers during the first years of their career. He believes that mentoring is a key pillar of a successful career as an attorney and emphasizes the importance of ethical, professional, and civil standards when practicing law.

In addition to serving as a new lawyer mentor, Walt frequently volunteers his time and has served on various boards including Utah Bar Foundation. A true Ute fan through and through, Walt received both his Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctorate from the University of Utah. He is especially grateful for the support he has received over the years from his wife Jen and his five children.

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2019 FALL FORUM Professionalism Award

HON. EVELYN J. FURSE

Since 2012, the Honorable Evelyn J. Furse has served as a Federal Magistrate Judge for the District of Utah hearing civil and criminal matters and conducting settlement conferences. Judge Furse chairs the Federal Judicial Center’s Magistrate Judges Education Advisory Committee. She served on the Local Federal Rules Committee, the Tenth Circuit Historical Society, the David K. Winder IP Inn of Court, and the Aldon J. Anderson Inn of Court. She is member of the Utah Women’s Forum, the Utah Minority Bar Association, Women Lawyers of Utah, the Federal Bar Association, the National Association of Women Judges, and the American Bar Association. Judge Furse regularly trains on the issue of pretrial release and detention in criminal cases for both the Federal Judicial Center and the Administrative Office of the Courts. In addition, Judge Furse traveled to Uzbekistan for the Federal Judicial Center to provide its judiciary assistance on curriculum planning for judicial education. She is also co-author with the Honorable John L. Weinberg of the Federal Bail and Detention Handbook, (PLI 2019).

Previously, Judge Furse served as a 3rd Division Utah Bar Commissioner, President of Women Lawyers of Utah, and a Vice Chair of an ethics screening panel for the Ethics & Discipline Committee of the Utah Supreme Court. In 2010, Judge Furse received the Utah State Bar’s Dorathy Merrill Brothers Award for the Advancement of Women in the Legal Profession.

Prior to her appointment, Judge Furse worked as a Senior City Attorney with Salt Lake City Corporation and before that, she was partner with Howrey LLP and Bendinger, Crockett, Peterson, Greenwood & Casey PC, practicing complex corporate litigation. Judge Furse began her career clerking for the Honorable Justice Christine M. Durham on the Utah Supreme Court.

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2019 FALL FORUM Lifetime Service Award

HON. BROOKE C. WELLS

The Honorable Brooke C. Wells served as a Magistrate Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Utah from 2003 until her retirement, June 3, 2019. Judge Wells received her Bachelor of Science Degree in Political Science from the University of Utah and then continued on to receive her Juris Doctorate degree, also from the University of Utah. Following graduation, she spent three years as a legal services lawyer in San Antonio, Texas. She then returned to Utah and worked for the Salt Lake Legal Defenders Association for fifteen years where she tried over 100 felony jury trials and rose to become the chief capital-qualified defense attorney in the state, responsible for handling the most difficult cases in the criminal justice system. During much of that time, Judge Wells was also an Adjunct Professor and Trial Advocacy Course Coordinator for the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law. Before taking the bench, Judge Wells worked as an Assistant United States Attorney for over eight years during which time she prosecuted violent crimes and civil rights cases and became Chief of the Violent Crimes Section. In 2003, Judge Wells was appointed as the first woman United States Magistrate Judge for the District of Utah. She served as Chief United States Magistrate Judge from 2013 through 2017.

In addition to her other judicial duties, she presides over Utah’s RISE (Reentry Independence thru Sustainable Efforts) reentry courts, among the first federal Drug Court programs in the country and the first federal Behavioral Health Court with a mental health specialized docket. She co-chairs ARC (Assisted Reentry to the Community), the District’s pioneering reentry effort established in 2012.

Judge Wells also has extensive community service and professional involvements, including serving as the past chair of the Advisory Board of UDOWD (Utah Defendant/Offender Workforce Development Task Force), a state/federal collaborative charged with eliminating barriers to employment and creating employment opportunities. She is the past president of the David K. Watkiss-Sutherland II Inn of Court, and former member of the Board of Trustees for the Disability Law Center, Legal Aid Society of Salt Lake, and Community Counseling Center. Judge Wells has served as a Mentor for the Utah State Bar’s New Lawyer Training Program.

Women Lawyers of Utah named Judge Wells as the 1988 Woman Lawyer of the Year. Judge Wells became the first Utah woman inducted into the American Board of Criminal Lawyers in 1992. Also in 1992, Governor Mike Leavitt’s Commission for Women and Families named her one of their ten “Remarkable Utah Women.” In 1993, she became the first Utah woman inducted into the American College of Trial Lawyers. While a federal prosecutor, she was twice recognized by the Department of Justice for Outstanding Achievement as an Assistant United States Attorney. In 2013 Judge Wells was the recipient of the Utah Women Lawyers Mentoring Award. In 2015, the Utah Minority Bar Association awarded Judge Wells its Distinguished Service Award. The National Alliance on Mental Illness, NAMI Utah, awarded her its Distinguished Service Award in 2017. She was named Alumnus of the Year by the University of Utah J.S. Quinney College of Law in 2018.

In retirement she hopes to serve as a recall United States Magistrate Judge and serve as a board member for non-profit organizations.

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