Jason Richards

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Jason’s practice emphasis includes all aspects of family law, personal injury, bankruptcy, criminal defense, civil litigation, and estate planning.

Jason has enjoyed many impressive victories over the course of his legal career, including successfully prosecuting one of the first factual innocence cases in the State of Utah. Jason’s team was able to convince the court to overturn their client’s 30-year-old felony sex abuse conviction. The court also awarded money damages to Jason’s client for spending 15-years in prison for a crime he did not commit.

Jason has a passion for helping victims of others negligent conduct and personal injury cases. Along with another local firm, Jason recently obtained a $6.2 Million dollar jury verdict for a client severely injured in a vehicle accident.

Jason is a skilled family law attorney, especially in areas of custody, adoption, relative custody, and child welfare cases. Jason is the president-elect of the Utah Family Defenders Association and sits on the Board of Directors. Jason has sat on Supreme Court committees supervising parent attorneys in Utah’s juvenile courts. Jason is also on the Oversight Committee for the Utah Office of the Guardian ad Litem, supervising the work of guardian ad litem attorneys in Utah family courts.

Whether it is a complex financial matter in the United States Bankruptcy Court or a family law case in the Utah Juvenile Courts, Jason is a tireless advocate who will use his knowledge of the law to diligently fight for his clients.

EDUCATION

  • University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law, JD, 2010
  • University of Utah, Political Science, BS, 2007

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND CLERKSHIPS

  • Founder of Richards & Kaas – (2023 – Present)
  • Richards Law Group Shareholder (2012-2022)
  • Richards, Caine, & Allen, Associate (2010-2012)
  • Utah Family Defenders Association, President-Elect (2019 – Present)
  • Snowbasin Sports Education Foundation, Board of Directors (2021 – Present)

HONORS AND AWARDS

  • Trial Attorney of the Year, 2016, Utah Family Defender Association
  • Utah Legal Elite: 2019-2022
  • Mountain States Super Lawyer 2020 – 2022

BAR ADMISSIONS

  • Utah, 2010

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