About Lance E.
Lance E. Bastian approached law after an early career within the organic sciences. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Zoology with a minor in Chemistry from Brigham Young University in 1998. He then pursued graduate research in biomechanics and body structure at the University of South Florida in 2006. Bastian returned to Utah for law school, completing a J.D. in 2011 at Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark Law School, where his studies emphasised felony law and trial practice.
His first professional steps in the legal system got here in 2011. He served as a deputy at the Utah County Lawyer’s Office. That same yr he worked as a judicial law clerk for the Fourth District Court in Provo. These roles gave him publicity to both the prosecutorial side of county practice and the day-to-day workings of the trial bench. The aggregate informed his feel of process and court pacing.
Bastian has maintained ties to the nearby legal network. Since 2011 he has been a member of the A. Sherman Christensen Inn of Court. The Inn is an area the place trial attorneys, judges and different practitioners meet to discuss practice, ethics and trial craft. That sustained involvement indicates an ongoing curiosity in the craft of legal proceedings and the expert standards that govern it.
His academic background is unusual among lawyers. A foundation in zoology and graduate work in biomechanics and body structure give him a scientific perspective on proof and causation. He introduced that point of view into law school, the place he studied criminal law and trial practice. Those early research showed through in his initial government work and within the trajectory of his career.
Today Bastian works at Nelson Naegle, PLLC. He continues to attract on trial experience and the technical instincts developed at some point of his science studies. Colleagues describe him as methodical in preparation and concise in courtroom, who prefer clean company over rhetoric. He has experience in courtroom process, motion practice and the realistic demands of litigation.
He stays certified to practice in Utah and has seemed in proceedings before the 10th Circuit. His membership in nearby expert organizations maintains him engaged with trial advocacy issues and ethical practice. He practices at Nelson Naegle, PLLC, where his work draws on his background in felony law and trial practice.
