{"id":428,"date":"2015-10-21T20:37:39","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T02:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utahadrservices.com\/neutrals\/?page_id=428"},"modified":"2020-03-04T08:15:41","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T15:15:41","slug":"judge-ben-h-hadfield","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/utahadrservices.com\/neutrals\/?page_id=428","title":{"rendered":"Judge Ben H. Hadfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-429 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/utahadrservices.com\/neutrals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/ben15-214x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Judge Ben Hadfield\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/utahadrservices.com\/neutrals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/ben15-214x300.jpeg 214w, https:\/\/utahadrservices.com\/neutrals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/ben15.jpeg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><strong>Professional Experience<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Admitted to the Utah State Bar and Federal Bar in 1978. \u00a0Worked as a trial lawyer at Mann Hadfield &amp; Thorne for 15 years, practicing primarily in the areas of domestic relations, personal injury, construction litigation, municipal law and criminal law. \u00a0In 1981 represented the prevailing party in the Utah Supreme Court landmark pension rights case of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Woodward v. Woodward<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Appointed to the District Court bench in early 1993 by Governor Michael O. Leavitt. During almost 22 years on the bench he presided over hundreds of bench and jury trials including cases in the areas of contract disputes, eminent domain, personal injury, domestic relations, real estate, probate, criminal law, water rights, products liability and medical malpractice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During his tenure on the bench he served:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>as Chair of the Courts Ethics Advisory Committee<\/li>\n<li>three terms as a member of the Board of District Court Judges, including service as\u00a0Chair of the Board in 2010<\/li>\n<li>one term as a member of the Utah Judicial Council<\/li>\n<li>two terms as Presiding Judge of the First District Court.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Judge Hadfield currently serves as an active senior Judge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Education<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">B.A. with Honors, Weber State College \u00a0\u00a01975<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">J.D. \u00a0\u00a0J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University \u00a0\u00a01978<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Memberships<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Utah State Bar \u00a0\u00a01978 \u2013 present<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rex E. Lee \u00a0American Inn of Court \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Founding member and former president<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">J. Reuben Clark Law Society \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Former Chair of Judges section<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>ADR Experience<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since retiring in 2014 Judge Hadfield has mediated hundreds of cases. In addition to completing the required 40-hour mediation training, he has served on numerous training panels and presented mediation seminars to judges and attorneys throughout the Republic of South Africa. In 2019 he worked as Committee Chair with BYU and U of U Law Schools and the top mediators in the state in presenting a one-week mediation training course in Salt Lake City to visiting High Court judges from South Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professional Experience Admitted to the Utah State Bar and Federal Bar in 1978. \u00a0Worked as a trial lawyer at Mann Hadfield &amp; Thorne for 15 years, practicing primarily in the areas of domestic relations, personal injury, construction litigation, municipal law and criminal law. \u00a0In 1981 represented the prevailing party in the Utah Supreme Court landmark <a href=\"https:\/\/utahadrservices.com\/neutrals\/?page_id=428\" class=\"read-more inline\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-428","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Judge Ben H. 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