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.
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
- Community Service
- Recognized as "Rising Star" by Mountain States Superlawyers, 2009
- Recognized as "Legal Elite" in the field of Civil Trial, Utah Business Magazine, 2008 and 2009
- Member, Utah State Bar Association
- Member, American Bar Association
- Admitted to Utah State Bar and U.S. District Court, District of Utah, 2003
- 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
- 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
- Member, Board of Trustees, Pinebrook Master Association
- Judged Traynor Moot Court Semi-Finals Competition, S.J. Quinney College of Law
- Pro bono services for Non-Profit and Tuesday Night Bar
- 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