Contact Info
Email: fcanfield@fabianlaw.com
Direct Line: 801-323-2239
Fax: 801- 596-2814

Felicia B. Canfield

Felicia Canfield is a shareholder attorney with Fabian who practices primarily in the areas of real estate, business and commercial litigation. Felicia was named as a Rising Young Star by Mountain States Super Lawyers in 2009. She was also named in Utah Business Magazine as one of Utah’s legal elite in Civil Trial for 2008 and 2009. She brings a broad and distinguished educational background to her legal practice. Her diverse academic experience along with the intense self-discipline, life and people skills she developed in national and world class athletic competition give Felicia a unique ability to deal with and resolve complex legal issues and litigation, and give her, when necessary, a tough-minded approach to controversy and conflict.

Felicia represents clients in litigation and other legal matters involving contracts, purchases and sales, partnership and entity disputes, title and priority issues, banking, condemnation proceedings, development, loans, leasing, and other business, real property, and commercial issues. Felicia routinely works with in-house counsel for corporate clients and with expert witnesses.

Practice Areas
Professional
Education
Publications & Presentations
Community Service

Admitted to Utah State Bar and U.S. District Court, District of Utah, 2003
Member, American Bar Association
Member, Utah State Bar Association, Litigation, Real Property and Dispute Resolution sections
Member, ABA Subcommittee for Foreclosure Mediation, 2009-current
Member, Utah State Bar Fee Dispute Resolution committee, 2010
Member, Utah Homebuilders Ass’n, Government affairs committee, 2010
Recognition: Mountain States Superlawyers, Rising Star, 2009, 2010
Recognition: Utah Business Magazine, one of Utah’s Legal Elite in Civil Trial, 2008 and 2009

J.D., University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law, 2002 -Recipient: CALI Excellence for the Future Award, 2002 -Recipient: S.J. Quinney College of Law Outstanding Achievement Award, 2002 -Recipient: Stephen Pierre Traynor Outstanding Legal Writing Award for the best legal research paper of 2001-2002, "Amateur Athletes and Antitrust Laws." -Externship with Chief Justice Christine Durham, Utah Supreme Court, 2002 -Winner: Traynor Moot Court Competition, Best Brief & Oral Arguments, 2000-2001 -Featured: Res Gestae, University of Utah College of Law alumni magazine; cover and article, Autumn 2001 -Pepperdine University: Mediating the Litigated case, 2009
M.A., International Relations, Syracuse University, 1995 -Recipient: Academic Merit Scholarship -Thesis: “African Refugees and Local Integration: A Durable Solution?”
M.SW, Syracuse University, 1995 -Recipient: Academic Merit Scholarship
B.S., Sociology, Northern Arizona University, 1986 -Award: Dean’s List for Outstanding Scholarship -Award: Outstanding General Sociology Student

Co-Authored “Rumor Has It-Getting Ahead of the Economic Rebound”, published in the January 11-17, 2010 edition of The Enterprise.

Member, Board of Trustees, Pinebrook Master Association
Traynor Moot Court Semi-Finals judge, S.J. Quinney College of Law, 2009
Athlete, National Skeleton Team 2000 - 2007 -World Championships -World Cup Circuit -America's Cup Circuit, 2 gold, 2 silver, 4 bronze medals -Europa Cup Circuit -Challenge Cup, 2 bronze medals -U.S. National team trials, 1 gold, 2 bronze medals -Champion, Western Regionals, 3 gold medals -Champion, Empire State Games, gold medal
Volunteer coach, Junior National Skeleton Team, Development Team
Hospice Social Work, Brevard Hospice, Rockledge, Florida, 1997-99
Income Tax Preparation, H&R Block, Melbourne, Florida, 1996-97
Refugee Resettlement Program Internship, Syracuse, New York, 1994-95
Refugee Resettlement Internship, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Washington D.C., 1994