Julianne P. Blanch

Juli Blanch is a commercial litigation trial attorney. She is one of a handful of Utah lawyers who is in the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, the American College of Trial Lawyers, the International Society of Barristers and the American Board of Trial Advocates. She has tried a broad range of cases over her three decades in practice, involving everything from trusts and estates, product liability, and bad faith insurance claims. Lately, her practice has focused on commercial litigation, and catastrophic personal injury cases. She was the chair of the Utah Civil Jury Instructions Committee, which updated the civil jury instructions used in state and federal court trials. Blanch regularly presents at seminars for Utah lawyers on the basics of litigation, jury selection, and trial techniques. She has also taught Trial Advocacy as an adjunct professor at the University of Utah Law School.

Blanch has handled dozens of appeals on the state and federal levels, including over 40 published opinions, including appeals from bench trials and jury trials and appeals from administrative decisions. She has argued before the Utah Court of Appeals, the Utah Supreme Court, and the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. She also served for several years on the Utah Supreme Court’s Advisory Committee on the Utah Rules of Appellate Procedure.

She is the Tenth Circuit representative on the ABA Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary. This Committee conducts independent peer evaluations of the professional qualifications of nominees to the federal bench.