Legal Ethics -

Sean D. Reyes & Parker Douglas

 

Sean D. Reyes

Sean Reyes is the 21st Attorney General for the State of Utah.  On December 30, 2013, at the age of 42, he was appointed by Governor Gary R. Herbert and took the oath of office. General Reyes was immediately faced with the challenge of restoring public trust in the Utah Attorney General’s Office (“AGO”), where accusations of wrongdoing and abuse of power beset his two predecessors.

 

After graduating summa cum laude from Brigham Young University in 1994, Reyes earned his law degree with honors from U.C. Berkeley in 1997. He practiced for nearly fourteen years at Parsons Behle & Latimer, the largest law firm in the State, where he became one of the first minority lawyers to make partner at a major Utah firm. While there, Reyes represented clients on some of the largest and most high profile litigation cases in the history of the State. He argued or briefed cases before state and federal courts throughout the country, including the Utah Supreme Court and Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.

 

During that time, Reyes was honored as the first-ever National Outstanding Young Lawyer by the American Bar Association and was recognized as the Utah Young Lawyer of the Year. After his distinguished career at Parsons Behle, Reyes continued to be recognized with awards and accolades for his legal skill and excellence in his role as General Counsel for a Utah media and technology company.

 

General Reyes has served on many boards and was a co-founder of nationally acclaimed Fraud College, to educate citizens on how to avoid scams. Reyes has diverse leadership experience and deep appreciation of Utah that has led him to devote thousands of hours to community and non-profit organizations and underserved individuals.

 

AG Reyes and his wife, Saysha, currently live in Cottonwood Heights and are the proud parents of 6 children between the ages of 4 and 16. In his free time, he enjoys playing morning basketball, coaching his kids in youth football, baseball, basketball, volleyball and soccer, taking walks or doing anything with Saysha, watching Sports Center, attending and speaking at Comic Cons, as well as cooking, shooting guns and watching mixed martial arts (now that his fighting days are over).

 

Parker Douglas

Parker Douglas came to the Attorney General’s Office after serving in the Utah Federal Public Defender’s Office as an Assistant Federal Defender, handling both trials and appeals.  Before joining the Defender’s Office in 2008, he practiced both criminal and civil law at several law firms: Hatch, James and Dodge, Latham & Watkins’ Washington, D.C. office, and Parsons Behle & Latimer, where he primarily handled constitutional and statutory appellate litigation.

 

He served as a law clerk to the Honorable Tena Campbell of the United States District Court for the District of Utah, and the Honorable Michael W. McConnell of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.  He is a graduate from the University Utah, S.J. Quinney School of Law, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Utah Law Review and Order of the Coif.  Prior to law school, he received his Ph.D in English with honors from the University of California, Santa Barbara where he was a Regents’ Fellow.  He received his B.A. with a double major in English and History from Pitzer College of the Claremont Colleges. He is a currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Utah Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, the local rules committee of the United States District Court for the District of Utah.