The Utah Judicial Council seeks an attorney with experience in representing parents in juvenile court cases involving allegations of dependency, abuse and neglect to participate in the Judicial Council’s Standing Committee on Children and Family Law. This committee was created by the Judicial Council in 1999 to review problems in the administration of justice in family law, such as programmatic and geographic voids in services, procedural reforms, and the unmet legal needs of children and families; to develop and recommend solutions to those problems, excluding structural reorganization of the courts; to supervise and assist in implementing solutions; to provide a forum for debate on political and policy issues facing public and private institutions in their effort to deliver services to children and families; to develop and recommend a model and role for community based councils on children and family law and a model for their relationship to the standing committee; and to supervise and assist in establishing community based councils. The committee is governed by Rules 1-205 and 4-908 of the Code of Judicial Administration. The committee typically meets quarterly on Friday afternoons in Salt Lake City. The members are appointed by the Judicial Council for three-year terms. It is anticipated that the appointment would begin in approximately March of 2009.
Each interested attorney should submit a resume and a letter addressing qualifications to Katie Gregory, Assistant Juvenile Court Administrator, Administrative Office of the Courts, P.O. Box 140241 Salt Lake City, Utah 84114-0241. Applications must be received no later than December 1, 2008. Questions may be directed to Ms. Gregory at (801) 578-3929.