Lauren R. Barros

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, she has been listed in Utah Business Magazine's Family Law “Legal Elite” and in the American Trial Lawyers’ Association “Top 100 Trial Lawyers in Utah” for the last several years.

Memberships. Ms. Barros is Chair of the Utah State Bar Family Law Executive Committee, a Fellow of the American Academy of Assisted Reproductive Technology Attorneys, Chair of the Equality Utah Legal Panel, and a member of the Utah Adoption Council, NCLR's Family Law Advisory Council, and the Women Lawyers of Utah (President of the Board, 2001-2002.)

Volunteer Work. Ms. Barros provides free legal advice at the Third District Family Law Clinic once a month. In the Fall of 2009, Lauren Barros and other concerned attorneys and law students created the first LGBT Law Clinic in Utah, Rainbow Law Utah. The Rainbow Utah Law Clinic is also held once a month. 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.