Julianne P. Blanch
Entities and individuals involved in legal disputes need an efficient resolution. They need their attorney to communicate with them regularly. Responsiveness to her clients and getting to the crux of a seemingly complex matter are the touchstones of Ms. Blanch's legal practice.
Ms. Blanch is an experienced trial lawyer. She is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. Ms. Blanch is a member of the Utah Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), an invitation-only organization where membership is considered only after having taken at least ten civil jury trials to verdict. She serves as Utah's Board Representative to ABOTA's national board. She is also a member of the International Society of Barristers, an elite trial lawyer group into which members must be nominated and elected. As of February 2019, only seven other lawyers in the state of Utah have been elected to this group. She has tried a broad range of cases, including contract disputes, property rights issues, criminal, product liability, automobile, premises liability and wrongful death cases. She was the chair of the Utah Civil Jury Instructions Committee, which updated the civil jury instructions used in state and federal court trials. Ms. Blanch regularly presents at seminars for Utah lawyers on the basics of litigation, jury selection, and trial techniques. She has also taught Trial Advocacy as an adjunct professor at the University of Utah Law School.
Ms. Blanch has handled dozens of appeals on the state and federal levels, including over 40 published opinions, including appeals from bench trials and jury trials and appeals from administrative decisions. She has argued before the Utah Court of Appeals, the Utah Supreme Court, and the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. She also served for several years on the Utah Supreme Court’s Advisory Committee on the Utah Rules of Appellate Procedure.
She has been one of a handful of Salt Lake City lawyers chosen by her peers for Super Lawyers Mountain States since 2010 in the area of product liability defense, and she is also on that publication’s list of Top 50 Women Lawyers for the Mountain States 2012-2014, 2016, 2019 and 2020. While Ms. Blanch's practice has an emphasis in product liability, she has handled litigation of all types and sizes over the past several years, ranging from catastrophic personal injury claims to employment litigation; from commercial disputes to insurance coverage issues.
Ms. Blanch enjoys running (having completed eight Boston Marathons), cooking, and reading military history and biographies.
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Accomplishments
Harvard University, J.D., 1993
Indiana University, B.A., 1990, magna cum laude
Political Science and East Asian Culture (majors), Spanish and English (minors)
Adjunct Professor: From Fall 2008 - 2010 and 2016, University of Utah Law School
Named one of Utah Business Magazine’s 2020 “Women of the Year"
Recognized in Chambers USA for General Commercial Litigation, 2018 - 2020
America’s Top 100 Attorneys™, Lifetime Achievement Member
Super Lawyers Mountain States, Top 50 Women Lawyers, for several years
Super Lawyers Mountain States, Product Liability 2010 - 2020
Best Lawyers in America® 2013 - 2021, Insurance Law and Commercial Litigation
Named 2016 Best Lawyers in America® "Lawyer of the Year" in Salt Lake City for Insurance Law
2011 Volunteer of the Year Award, Utah March of Dimes Chapter
Utah Business Magazine 2009 - 2014, Utah Legal Elite, Civil Trial Practice
Utah Business Magazine 2008, Utah Legal Elite, Non-Profit Law
Utah Business Magazine, “Rising Star,” 2003: One of 40 Utahns under the age of 40 who have demonstrated outstanding achievement and leadership
Associations
Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers
Member, International Society of Barristers
American Bar Foundation Fellow and Utah Chapter President
Commissioner, Utah Pro Bono Commission
President, Salt Lake County Bar Association, 2006-2007
Past member of Executive Committee, Salt Lake County Bar Association
Past Chair of the Utah Civil Jury Instructions Committee and current member of the Product Liability Instructions Subcommittee
American Board of Trial Advocates, National Board Representative
Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America
International Association of Defense Counsel
Salt Lake Rotary, Past Board Member
March of Dimes, Past Board Member and Board Chair
Salt Lake Rotary Club, Past Member
Planned Parenthood Action Committee, Past Board Member
Ronald McDonald House, Past President, Board of Directors
Ronald McDonald House, Community Advisory Board
Guadalupe School, Board Member
Licensed/Admitted
U.S. Supreme Court