Farrell, Nicole G.

Lawyer Overview

Nicole Griffin Farrell is an associate in the Litigation and Employment departments, where she concentrates her practice on general commercial litigation, employment law, trademarks and product liability.  Before joining Parsons Behle & Latimer, she served as a law clerk to the Hon. Stephen H. Anderson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and to the Hon. Carolyn B. McHugh of the Utah Court of Appeals.

Ms. Farrell graduated magna cum laude from Utah State University with a B.S. degree in print journalism and a minor in women's studies. She attended the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah.  During law school, she was editor-in-chief of the Utah Law Review and was elected to Order of the Coif.  Ms. Farrell was also named a William H. Leary Scholar, received the Roger and Madeline Traynor Scholarship for Excellence in Legal Writing and was awarded the best brief designation in the Traynor Moot Court competition.  She was also awarded for achieving the highest grade in Legal Methods, Family Law, Environmental Law and Business, Constitutional Law II and Media Law.  She was admitted to the Utah State Bar in 2004.

Related Activities and Skills:

• Member, Women Lawyers of Utah, Committee on the Initiative for the Advancement & Retention of Women in Law Firms
• Litigation Section, Executive Committee, Utah State Bar (Committee Member)
• Valley Services (Board President)
• Utah State University, Department of Journalism and Communication Advisory Committee

Admissions:

• Utah, 2004
• U.S. District Court, District of Utah, 2007
• U.S. Court of Appeals, 10th Circuit, 2010

Areas of Practice

• Litigation & Appeals
• Products Liability Litigation
• Communications & Media Law
• Employment Law - Employer
• Trademarks
• Construction Law

West Practice Categories

Communications & Media, Construction, Employment Law -- Employer, Intellectual Property, Products Liability, Trademarks

Classes and Seminars

• "Social Media and Legal Issues," Mountain West Regional Public Relations Conference, Utah State University, 2011
• "Managing Employee Use of Facebook, Twitter and other Social Media," Parsons Behle & Latimer Employment Law Seminar, May 11, 2010
• "Employee Handbooks," Parsons Behle & Latimer Employment Law Seminar, March 17, 2009
• "EEOC Compliance in Utah," Lorman Seminar, February 6, 2009
• "Handling Employee Arrests, Convictions and Incarcerations," The Employers Council, Legal Breakfast Briefing Series, January 27, 2009

Education

• University of Utah College of Law, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2004
  J.D.
• Utah State University, 1998
  B.S.

Published Works

• Attorney Volunteers in Court, Utah State Bar Journal, Volume 23 No. 2, March/April 2010
• What's Your Leadership Style?, The Woman Advocate, ABA Vol. 14, No. 3, Spring 2009
• Frankly, We Do Give a . . . Darn! Hollywood's Battle Against Unauthorized Editing of Motion Pictures: The CleanFlicks Case, 2003 Utah L.Rev. 1041
• Development, State v. Casey, 2003 Utah L.Rev. 716

Address

201 South Main Street
Suite 1800
Salt Lake City, UT 84111-2218

Phones

801-532-1234

Faxes

801-536-6111

Emails

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Websites

http://www.parsonsbehlelaw.com (http://www.parsonsbehle.com)