Utah Attorney General's 2016 CLE Conference
Specific Constitutional Law Topics
TYLER GREEN and STAN PURSER
Utah Attorney General's Office
Biography
Tyler Green joined the Utah Attorney General’s Office as Solicitor General in August 2015 to oversee the Appellate Department after serving the United States Chamber of Commerce as Deputy Chief Counsel for Litigation in the Chamber’s Litigation Center. In this capacity Green worked with state Solicitors General on matters of national interest and was an integral part of a Chamber team that drafted and filed hundreds of amicus and merits briefs over the past several years.
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Prior to his service at the U.S. Chamber, Green was an associate in the Supreme Court and Appellate section of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP’s Washington, D.C. office where he gained substantive experience in Supreme Court and other appellate and trial litigation.
Green also previously served as a law clerk at the United States Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah. Green came highly referred by the National Association of Attorneys General’s Supreme Court Coordinator, federal jurists from district courts to the Supreme Court as well as multiple AG Offices of other states.
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A native Utahn, Green attended Jordan High School where he led the Beetdiggers to a 4-A State Championship in football while earning All-State honors himself. He earned both his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Utah. At the College of Law, he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Utah Law Review and graduated Order of the Coif and first in his class.
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Stanford Purser Bio
Stan Purser is the Deputy Solicitor General and Civil Appeals Division Director in the Utah Attorney General’s Office. He has been an Assistant Attorney General for four years in the Appeals Section of the Litigation Division. Prior to this, Stan was in private practice for 10 years in Texas focusing on civil appeals and commercial litigation. He also served as a judicial clerk on the Utah Supreme Court and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. He received both his undergraduate and J.D. degrees from BYU.