Michelle Swift RN, JD
Sole Practitioner
Areas of Practice
- Administrative Hearings & Adjudication
- Administrative Investigations
- Professional Licensing Defense
- Regulatory Enforcement
- Mediation
- Age Discrimination
- Disability & Illness Discrimination
- National Origin Discrimination
- Race Discrimination
- Religious Discrimination
- Sex Discrimination
- Sexual Harassment
- Discrimination
- Americans with Disabilities Act -- Employee
- Employee Rights -- Employee
- Employment Discrimination -- Employee
- Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) -- Employee
- Federal Employer's Liability Act (FELA) -- Employee
- Sexual Harassment -- Employee
- Whistleblower -- Employee
- Wrongful Termination -- Employee
- Living Wills
- Powers of Attorney and Appointment
- Trusts
- Wills
- Animal Bites -- Plaintiff
- Motor Vehicle Accidents -- Plaintiff
- Slip and Fall -- Plaintiff
- Estate Administration
- Medical Malpractice
Litigation Percentage
- 100% of Practice Devoted to Litigation
Bar Admissions
- Utah, 2004
- U.S. District Court District of Utah, 2004
Education
- Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, California
- J.D.
- Honors: Center for Law and Social Justice (2004)
- Westminster College, Salt Lake City, Utah
- B.S.
- Major: Nursing
Published Works
- For the Want of a Nail, a Kingdom Was Lost, Anti-Trust The Peer Review Process --Pro-competitive or Anti-competitive?
- Indivisible with Liberty, Justice and Health Care for All, Universal Health Care System Based On Our Values as Americans
- Lions, Tigers, Bears, and Medicare Fraud; Oh, My!, The Impact of Fraud on Hospitals
- Medical Legal Ethics for Nurses, Utah Nurses Newspaper, Spring, 2004
Classes/Seminars
- Ethics and American Legal Studies, 2007 - Present
- Presentation: When Patient Turns Plaintiff., UNA State Convention, Oct. 2005
- Presentation: "Introduction to Legal Aspects of Nursing.", Westminster College, Jan. 2006
- Presentation: How to Review Medical Records., Utah Trial Lawyers Conference, Fall 2006
Honors and Awards
- Certified Mediator
Professional Associations and Memberships
- Utah State Bar
- Utah Nurses Association, President, 2007 - 2008
- Utah Association of Justice (formerly the Utah Trial Lawyers)
- Utah Nurses Association
- Utah Association of Employment Attorneys
- National Employment Lawyers Association
Ancillary Businesses
- Lobbying Utah Nurses Association (2004 - 2007)