Paralegal Division of the Utah State Bar
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  • Home
  • Membership
    • Join / Renew Membership
    • Membership Benefits
    • Job Bank Postings
  • Events & CLEs
  • Mentor Program
    • Mentor Registration Form
    • Mentee Registration Form
    • Resources for Participants
  • Division Leadership
    • Elizabeth Hill
    • Linda Echeverria
    • Scott Anderson
    • Jennifer Peterson
    • Coryne Lake
    • Alba Monge-Rosa
    • Jacob Clark
    • Tally Van Ry
    • Leslie Bullard
    • Frances Helsten
    • Greg Wayment
    • Kym May
  • Information
    • Creation of the Utah State Bar Paralegal Division
    • Guidelines / Bylaws / Standing Rules
    • Articles and Presentations
    • Paralegal Day Declaration by Gov. Herbert - May 21, 2020
    • Heather Finch Memorial Scholarship Fund
    • Newsletters
    • SPECIAL THANKS / SPONSORS
  • Connect🔗

Paralegal Division Membership Benefits

  • Continuing Legal Education (CLEs)
  • Free brown bag courses online and/or at the Utah Law & Justice Center
  • CLE courses presented at the Utah Bar Spring and Summer Conventions, and Fall Forum
  • Annual full-day CLE seminar
  • Networking opportunities for paralegals to meet and communicate with each other and other members of the Bar
  • The opportunity to provide community service
  • Discounted registration at select Utah State Bar events
  • Salary surveys to help you stay current with the local paralegal market
  • Community recognition for helping bring access to justice
  • Opportunities to promote the paralegal profession

Continuing Legal Education (CLE)
Utah State Bar Continuing Legal Education Department is committed to helping Utah attorneys meet their Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (CLE) requirements by providing high quality live and online programs. 
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Utah Bar Journal
The Utah Bar Journal is published 6 times each year and is received by every attorney, licensed paralegal practitioner, and paralegal division member who maintain an Active, Current, or Inactive-Full Service license with the Utah State Bar. Our current circulation is approximately 10,800 and growing.
Decisis
Each of the more than 11,000 lawyers, judges, and legal professionals who are members of the Utah State Bar receive complimentary access to Decisis, a powerful and reliable online legal research platform provided as a Bar member benefit. Decisis delivers access to a comprehensive legal research database valued at approximately $1,740 per year, with no limits on time, searches, or transactions. Members enjoy nationwide legal research, printing, training resources, and enhanced customer support available seven days a week from experienced research and technical specialists. 

This member benefit includes access to Decisis’s extensive library of state and federal case law, as well as statutes, regulations, court rules, and select administrative materials across all jurisdictions. Decisis is designed for efficiency and accuracy, featuring a clean, intuitive interface with a Google‑like search bar, tailored search filters, split‑screen functionality, and a world‑class citator powered by LexisNexis technology to help users quickly identify good law and negative case treatment with confidence.
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Decisis can be accessed directly through the Utah State Bar Practice Portal. Members log in using their Bar username and password to activate and begin using this benefit at no additional cost. If you do not see the Decisis logo on the right-hand side of your Practice Portal dashboard, select “Add Decisis” from the left-hand navigation menu to enable access.
Lawyers Helping Lawyers
Lawyers Helping Lawyers (LHL) is committed to rendering confidential assistance to any member of the Utah State Bar whose professional performance is or may be impaired due to a variety of circumstances. These include, but are not limited to, professional or business problems, family struggles, grief, trauma, identity issues, substance abuse or misuse, mental illness, emotional distress, overcoming adversity, harassment, discrimination, and many other issues. Currently LHL matches those whom it assists with one on one volunteer peer mentors and conducts continuing legal education.
Tava
Tava is a free, confidential mental health benefit available to all members and employees of the Utah State Bar and their dependents (age 13-25).  The benefit provides up to 6 free sessions annually with licensed clinicians through Tava's secure, web-based technology platform.
Beneplace
​Utah State Bar Group Benefits is the exclusive savings and discount benefit site for Utah State Bar employees. Thank you so much for all your hard work!
Unmind
The Utah State Bar has partnered with Unmind, an app that gives you confidential access to tools, training and exercises to support your mental wellbeing.  Mental health exists on a spectrum - from surviving to thriving - and we all have it, all of the time.
Wellbeing
Explore this site to learn more about building your well-being, thriving in the practice of law, resources for lawyer assistance, and news about upcoming events and the WCLP's current work. A great place to start is by downloading our new guide to Living Well in Law created in collaboration with the Utah Community Builders Foundation.

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