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Alexis S. Jones

Associate
Key Bank Tower
36 S. State Street
Suite 1900
Salt Lake City, UT 84111

Related Info

Ms. Jones is a member of the firm’s International section. She handles general corporate, nonprofit and litigation matters, including compliance with trade, data privacy, exempt organization, immigration and cultural heritage laws.  She assists companies and non-profit entities with formation, corporate governance, and tax compliance, and works with counsel around the world to help U.S. companies enter into contracts and comply with legal requirements abroad. Ms. Jones has prior experience working with the Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of Land Management, and Department of the Interior.

Experience

  • Kirton McConkie, Summer Associate, 2015
  • Durham, Jones & Pinegar, Summer Associate, 2014

Publications

  • Lincoln L. Davies & Alexis Jones, Fukushima’s Shadow, 48 VAND. J. TRANSNAT’L L. 1083 (2015).
  • Alexis Jones, Destroying the Past: ISIS and Our World Cultural Heritage, GLOBALJUSTICEBLOG.COM (Nov. 10, 2014), http://www.law.utah.edu/destroying-the-past-isis-and-our-heritage/, summarized in Wayne McCormack, INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW 513.

Education

  • University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law, J.D., with Highest Honors, 2016
    • Order of the Coif
    • Associate Articles Editor, Utah Law Review
    • Quinney Research Fellow
    • William H. Leary Scholar
    • Best Brief for Respondent, Evan A. Evans Constitutional Law Moot Court Competition, 2015
    • Co-Founder/President, S.J. Quinney College of Law Federal Bar Association 
    • Class Representative, Student Bar Association 
  • University of Utah, B.S., Journalism and B.S., Anthropology, 2012
    • Founder/President, U of U National Society of Leadership and Success

Clerkship

  • Smithsonian Institution Office of General Counsel, Law Clerk, 2015
  • Department of the Interior: Office of the Solicitor, Law Clerk 2016

Bar Admissions

  • Utah, 2016

Honors & Awards

  • CALI Award for Highest Grade in:
    Administrative Law
  • Federal Courts
  • Civil Procedure
  • Legal Research
  • Archaeology and the Law
  • Counterterrorism

  • Outstanding Achievement Award in:
    Constitutional Law I
  • International Law
  • International Criminal Law
  • Oxford Human Rights Consortium Scholarship Recipient

Affiliations

Young Alumni Board, S.J. Quinney College of Law