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Michael Holje has been an attorney at Brown, Bradshaw & Moffat, LLP since 2003. His practice includes criminal defense, related administrative and professional licensing matters, and actions before the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole. He regularly defends both felony and misdemeanor charges, including sex offenses, assault, domestic violence, theft, DUI, and drug and alcohol offenses. Michael graduated as a William H. Leary Scholar from the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law. While in law school, he was an editor of the school's Journal of Land, Resources, and Environmental Law. Prior to graduation, he worked as a...

-Practice focused exclusively on serious personal injuries, automobile accidents, premises liability (slip and fall accidents), medical malpractice, and other severe injuries.

- Obtained numerous large injury settlements and awards, including one of the largest food poisoning cases to date.

- Regularly serve as Chairperson of pre-litigation screening panels for the Utah Department of Occupational and Professional Licensing to review medical malpractice claims for merit.

- 18 years experience.

- Adjunct Professor teaching "Torts: Personal Injury Litigation" to paralegal students at Salt Lake Community College.

- Bachelor of Science and Juris Doctor Degree, University of Utah. William H. Leary Scholar in...

Ann Taliaferro is an associate attorney at Brown, Bradshaw & Moffat and has practiced law since 2000. Her practice includes criminal defense and criminal appeals. Ann received her Juris Doctorate from the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah and was a William H. Leary Scholar. Ann was a staff writer and editor of the Utah Law Review for two years. She was also a member of the National Trial Team and a semi-finalist at the Traynor Moot Court Competition. Prior to joining Brown, Bradshaw & Moffat, Ann was a law clerk for the Utah Attorney General's...

Jim Bradshaw has practiced law since 1982. He is one of the founding members of Brown, Bradshaw, and Moffat. His practice includes all types of litigation, including white collar and other criminal matters, civil litigation, criminal appeals, and professional licensing and disciplinary matters.

Jim Bradshaw graduated as a William H. Leary Scholar from the University of Utah College of Law. The first eight years of his legal career were spent working as a lawyer in the trenches at the Salt Lake Legal Defender’s Association before moving on to form Brown, Bradshaw, and Moffat.

Having previously served as the Chairman of the Criminal...

Nominated Best Advocate in the Student Trial Advocacy Competition (STAC) National Trial Competition, Vance brings both an academic skillset and courtroom training to the firm. Additionally, Vance was part of his law school’s highly competitive Honors Moot Court team, and excelled to the point of being elected to serve on Santa Clara’s Honors Moot Court Board of Directors. Vance also possesses a noteworthy assortment of criminal and civil law expertise via his work at the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office, Sunnyvale City Attorney’s Office, and as an Associate for Lexis Nexis Legal Research. A native Texan, Vance sat...

Melinda Silk graduated from the University of Utah College of Law (S.J. Quinney College of Law) in 1997 with a Juris Doctorate, where she was designated a William H. Leary Scholar. She also received the Utah Bar Foundation's Ethics Award. While in law school, Melinda clerked for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Salt Lake City, Utah. Upon graduation, Melinda moved to Lake Havasu City, Arizona working in Indian Gaming before moving to the Legal Defenders Office as a Legal Defender. Melinda was recruited by Wachtel, Biehn & Malm and worked for the firm for a year...