Bryan Pattison is an appellate and litigation attorney with over 20 years experience. He practiced in one of Utah’s largest law firms where he was a shareholder and spent several years as chair of the firm’s litigation section. He left to found his own firm in 2021. Before entering private practice, he was a judicial clerk at the Utah Court of Appeals. He maintains an AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rating in Litigation and Appellate Practice and is routinely named among Utah Business Magazine’s Utah Legal Elite.
Bryan currently serves on the Utah Supreme Court’s Advisory Committee on Rules of Civil Procedure. Prior to that, he served for 12 years on the Utah Supreme Court’s Advisory Committee on Rules of Appellate Procedure. The Utah Supreme Court also recently appointed him to serve as Vice Chair of its Ethics and Discipline Committee. This is his second stint on the Ethics and Discipline Committee, having served previously as a screening panel chair.
Bryan received a B.S. cum laude in Business Management from Westminster College and a J.D. with distinction from the University of Oklahoma College of Law where he was Assistant Managing Editor of the Oklahoma Law Review. He also served on the Board of Editors for the American Indian Law Review and received the AmJur award for the highest grade in Contracts. He is admitted to practice in Utah and before the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Tenth, Ninth, and Third Circuits, and the United States Supreme Court.
Bryan comes from a family of football coaches. Following in those footsteps, he has served as a volunteer coach for over 20 years and is certified by the National Federation of State High School Associations. (If the blog does not have new content between August and November, well, it’s football season–a time when the blog takes a back seat to coaching.)
