Jonathan Hafen

onathan Hafen has been widely praised by clients and peers for his skilled and e?cient approach to litigation. As a trial lawyer, Mr. Hafen handles a wide variety of litigation, including cases in the areas of securities and investment law, employment law, breach of contract, property disputes, road and access cases, intellectual property, medical devices, pharmaceutical products, disputes over ownership and control of businesses, class actions, construction law, and legal malpractice defense. Mr. Hafen also serves as legal counsel to a number of small, midsize and multinational companies, utilizing the signi?cant resources available at Parr Brown to address the broad spectrum of legal challenges routinely confronting business leaders.

Mr. Hafen has been awarded an AV rating – the highest awarded by Martindale-Hubbell. He has been repeatedly recognized as a top commercial litigator by Best Lawyers in America, Chambers USA – America’s Leading Business Lawyers, Benchmark Litigation, and by Utah Business magazine as one of Utah’s Legal Elite. Mr. Hafen was named “Lawyer of the Year” in Employment Law for Individuals (2015) and Labor Law – Union (2018), and (2020) by Best Lawyers. He also continues to be recognized as one of the “Top 100” lawyers in the Intermountain area by Mountain States Super Lawyers. Following a nomination, research and blue ribbon review process, Mr. Hafen was named one of the “Top 10” Lawyers in the Mountain States (Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming) by Super Lawyers Magazine for 2012 and “Top 100” for 2013, 2015 and 2016.

He graduated magna cum laude from BYU Law School in 1991, clerked for Monroe McKay, Chief Judge of the U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, and worked at one of the nation’s most prestigious law firms, Sidley & Austin (Chicago) from 1992-95.

• Commercial Litigation Services
• Employment Litigation
• Securities Litigation
• Class Actions

Utah

Member, Board of Governors, Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce; Chair, International Committee

Current

Member, Board of Directors, Tenth Circuit, Federal Bar Association

Current

Chair, Supreme Court Advisory Committee on the Utah Rules of Civil Procedure

Current

Former Chair and Current Executive Committee Member, Litigation Section, Utah State Bar

Current

Member, Utah State Bar Labor & Employment

Current

Executive Committee, Utah State Bar Litigation

Current

Member, BYU Law School Alumni Advisory Board

Current

BYU Alumni Association

Current

Chair, Tuacahn Center for the Arts

Current

Chair, Utah State Bar Continuing Legal Advisory Committee

Current

Faculty Member, Litigation Section Trial Academy, March 2018

Current

Brigham Young University

J.D. (1991)

1991

Honors: magna cum laude, Order of the Coif

Activities: Executive Editor, Brigham Young University Law Review

Brigham Young University

B.A.

1988

Honors: summa cum laude

Brigham Young University-Idaho

A.A.

1986

AV rating

Martindale-Hubbell

Utah State Bar  # 06096

Member

Current