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My job is to help businesses and individuals solve their legal problems. Counseling, negotiation, mediation and litigation are all tools to solve those problems.
Jim Lowrie has pursued a major litigation and trial practice at Jones Waldo for more than 30 years. He has also worked extensively in labor, employment, administrative and health care law. He is an accomplished trial lawyer and counselor who views the lawyer’s role as solving problems. He uses litigation, mediation, negotiating, structuring and counseling as tools to reach solutions. Jim was listed in "The Best Lawyers in America" 2008 and preceding editions, Utah Business Magazine’s 2006-2008 Legal Elite as well as in the 2007 "Super Lawyers" for employment law.
Jim's litigation practice has principally included general and major litigation, administrative law and labor and employment. He has practiced in State and Federal Courts all over the West, New York and Washington, D.C. He has briefed and argued cases before the appellate courts in Utah, Idaho, New Mexico, New York, Colorado, Florida and Washington, D.C. Jim is also a certified mediator and has extensive mediation experience. Jim is admitted to practice in Utah and Michigan.
During his career, in addition to litigation, labor and employment, Jim has worked in health care regulation, state liquor regulation, miscellaneous transactional work and substantial general counseling. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Utah Symphony and the Rose Creek Winery (in Idaho), as Chair of the Advisory Board of Red Butte Gardens and State Arboretum, and as a member of the Wells Fargo Bank Salt Lake Advisory Board. Jim is the senior litigator at Jones Waldo. He has served as Chair of its Board, Chair of its Litigation Department, leader of its Labor and Employment practice and in various other leadership roles.
Jim Lowrie graduated from the University of Utah College of Law in 1972 with high honors. While in law school, he served on the Law Review, the Utah Constitution Revision Commission research staff, and as a criminal law and tax teaching assistant. He clerked for Jones Waldo in 1971 and joined as an attorney in 1972. Prior to law school, Jim worked for the Internal Revenue Service for two years. | 