Jack C. Helgesen |

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Jack Helgesen received his Juris Doctor law degree from BYU Law School on 1980. In 1982, he moved home to Ogden and became a trial lawyer in hundreds of civil and criminal trials.
As a criminal defense lawyer, Mr. Helgesen became one of only a handful of Utah lawyers to win acquittals from juries in murder, rape and kidnaping trials.
As a juvenile court lawyer, Mr. Helgesen represented young Utahns in hundreds of trials and hearings. His firm has continued this tradition for more than twenty-five years.
As a medical malpractice lawyer, Mr. Helgesen won one of the first million dollar awards in a Utah medical trial. He and his partners have won settlements and awards in hundreds of medical malpractice cases since 1982.
As an injury trial lawyer for severely injured Utahns, Mr. Helgesen has won some of the largest settlements in Utah. He and his partners have successfully completed hundreds of injury cases in the last twenty-five years.
As a consumer trial lawyer, Jack Helgesen and his partners filed and won (at trial and through multiple appeals) one of the largest class action judgments in the history of Utah – more than $70 million – for more than 21,000 Utah tax payers in Brumley v. Utah Tax Commission, 868 P.2d 796 (Utah 1993). He and his partners have been winning consumer cases for more than twenty-five years.
Jack Helgesen has been a leader among American lawyers. He is a former President of the Utah Trial Lawyers Association, and was a Governor (for more than ten years) of the Association of American Trial Lawyers in Washington, D.C., the nation’s largest trial lawyer organization. For more than four years he was a Governor of the American Association of Justice (Washington, D.C.). He is a Master with the American Inns of Court.
Jack and the law firm he started handle a broad range of legal matters for Utahns and their families. Jack has an AV rating from Martindale.com, America’s oldest lawyer rating service. This high honor puts him in the top 5% of American lawyers for legal ability and ethics. AVVO.com lawyer rating website ranks Jack as a “superb lawyer,” giving him 10 points on a scale of 1 to 10.
Jack and his wife Koy have eight children and twenty-three grandchildren. They tend kids, celebrate more than thirty noisy birthdays in their home every year, and travel when they can get away.
At work, Jack enjoys helping his three sons (Craig, Kurt and Erik) as they help good clients who hire and trust them.

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