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 Lauren R. Barros
Email: lauren@laurenbarroslaw.com
Practice Areas: Family Law
Certified member of Collaborative Family Lawyers of Utah
Family Law Practice. Lauren R. Barros focuses her practice on family law, specializing in divorce
and dissolution, custody, parent-time disputes and non-traditional families, as well as adoption, family formation, and assisted reproduction law.
Awards. Ms. Barros received the award of “Distinguished Family Law Practitioner” in 2005-2006 from
the Utah State Bar and the “Most Fabulous Attorney” award from Q Salt Lake Magazine in 2007, 2008 and 2009. She and her husband received Equality Utah’s Allies Award in 2006. In 2004, Utah Business
Magazine gave her a “Top 40 Under 40 Rising Stars" award and she was selected as Utah Business Magazine's "Legal Elite" in 2004 and 2005.
Memberships. Ms. Barros is Vice Chair for the Utah Bar Family Law Executive Committee, a member of
the Utah Adoption Council, Chair of the Equality Utah Legal Panel, and a member of NCLR’s Family Law Advisory Council. She is a member of the Women Lawyers of Utah (President of the Board, 2001-2002)
and was a Utah Bar Commission Representative in 2003.
Volunteer Work.
Ms. Barros provides free legal advice at the Third District Family Law Clinic. She was a Small Claims Court judge in the Third District Court from 1998-2005, a rescue member with the Salt Lake
County Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue Team from 1998-2003, and on the Board of the Friends of the Utah Avalanche Forecasters from 2005-2007.
Educational Background. Born in Dover, Delaware, Ms. Barros attended Colorado College and the University
of Utah College of Law, where she graduated in 1993 as a William H. Leary Scholar, with a Clark Dewsnup Scholarship in Natural Resources Law.
Legal Experience. Prior to opening Lauren R. Barros, P.C. in 2002, Ms. Barros was an attorney with
Cohne, Rappaport and Segal, the Disability Law Center, the Utah Labor Commission, and Utah Legal Services. Ms. Barros has taught as an Adjunct Instructor for the University of Utah Graduate School
of Social Work on the topics of "Comparative and International Women's Rights Law" and "Women and the Law." She has presented on topics within family, employment, discrimination and disability
law, in Utah and nationally.
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