60 Apps & Sites in 60 Minutes - Judge David Nuffer, Janise McCanas, Russ Minas, Lincoln Mead, Heather White

 

Judge David Nuffer was appointed as a United States District Judge in the District of Utah on March 23, 2012 and took the position of Chief Judge on September 1, 2014.  From 1995 - 2003, he was a part time United States Magistrate Judge, part time lawyer and was appointed as a full time magistrate judge January 17, 2003.  He serves on the Federal Judicial Center Judges IT Training Advisory Committee and chairs the District of Utah Attorney Discipline Committee.  He also teaches mediation at Brigham Young University's J. Reuben Clark Law School.  During his years as a lawyer, he was a member and Chair of the Utah Judicial Conduct Commission and a commissioner and president of the Utah State Bar.  
He is a frequent lecturer on technology and legal issues and maintains the TechNews for Judges blog on the U S Courts intranet.  

 

Janise Macanas is the Section Director of the Special Prosecution Section of the Justice Division and has been an Assistant Attorney General for 16 years. Janise served as the Utah State Bar Commissioner for the Third Division and has helped plan various seminars and presentations for the Utah State Bar and the Utah Minority Bar Association.

 

Russ Minas is a shareholder in the law firm of Prince, Yeates & Geldzahler. He graduated from the University of Utah College of Law in 1989 and has practiced family law in Salt Lake City for the past 26 years. He is a former staff attorney, domestic violence program director, and executive director of the Legal Aid Society of Salt Lake. In 1994 he entered private practice and was a sole practitioner for the next 18 years. He continues to specialize in family law, collaborative family law and domestic mediation. Russ is a member and past chair of the Executive Committee of the Family Law Section of the Utah State Bar. In 2013 he was recognized as the Utah Bar’s Family Law Attorney of the Year. He is a member and a past chair of the Utah Association of Collaborative Professionals, and serves on the Utah Online Court Assistance Program (OCAP) Policy Board, on subcommittees of Utah Supreme Court’s Standing Committee on Children and Family Law, and on the Utah Child Support Guidelines Advisory Committee.

 

Lincoln Mead currently serves as the Director of Information Technology for the Utah State Bar. He is an obsessive mourner for Cubs baseball. He assists Utah attorneys with evaluation of practice management technology, implementation and policy. He is a frequent technology and practice management speaker at Utah State Bar events and has been a guest speaker at law and technology related events across the country. He is a past Chair of the IT Section of the National Association of Bar Executives and a past member of the ABA Techshow Board. He has overseen the implementation of Casemaker for all Utah attorneys; assisted in the roll out of the state efiling system and in the design and implementation of the public WiFi system at the new Federal Court House. He is currently working on the migration of the Utah State Bar operations to new enterprise software and the creation of the member services portal cleverly named https://services.utahbar.org . He has been honored to serve with Leonard Burningham as the Co-Chair for the Bar and Court’s Annual Food and Clothing Drive for the past 16 years (to be held this year on December 19th). He is also the proud father of three Irish sons: War, Plague, and Pestilence, and the husband of a mysterious and beautiful Welsh wife.

 

Heather White practices with Snow, Christensen & Martineau and leads the firm’s Governmental Law Practice Group. She focuses on the
defense of governments in high profile civil rights disputes.
Heather defends governmental entities and their officers against complaints asserting the deprivation of civil rights. These include all types of claims of alleged misconduct, such as excessive force, search and seizure, wrongful arrest, false imprisonment, malicious prosecution, abuse of process and denial of medical care, to name a few. At any given time, Heather is involved in multiple officer-involved shooting cases through inception, including investigations by the Department of
Justice and press inquiries, through conclusion.

 

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