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 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 trail 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. 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 and 2016. 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.