Agency Representation Conflicts and Best Practices -

Susan Eisenman

 

Susan Eisenman, J.D., has spent the last twenty years working as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Utah, representing various agencies within the State, and currently serves as Division Director of the State Agency Counsel Division and as counsel to the Governor’s Office of Economic Development.  As an Assistant Attorney General for the Utah Department of Human Services, Ms. Eisenman has had the opportunity to look at social issues from legal, administrative, and policy perspectives. Ms. Eisenman participated in the successful defense of a class action lawsuit against the Division of Services for People with Disabilities (M.A.C. v. Betit) and the successful resolution of a thirteen-year-long class action law suit against the Division of Child and Family Services (David C. v. Leavitt). Prior to joining the Attorney General’s Office, Ms. Eisenman was an attorney Guardian ad litem, representing children in child abuse and neglect cases, and, before that, provided parental defense for persons accused of child abuse and neglect. Ms. Eisenman received a Bachelors Degree from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia.