About Steven Shapiro

Steven is a 1992 graduate of the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University. He began his legal career with the Salt Lake City firm of Clyde, Pratt & Snow where his practice included criminal defense work in local and national white-collar cases predominantly in Federal Trial and Appellate courts.

Steven then moved to the Salt Lake Legal Defender Association to begin a practice focused on criminal defense in the State courts. In his more than 13 years of public defense work, Steven gained extensive experience in cases ranging from minor infractions to the most serious offenses.

With many years of significant courtroom and trial experience and training, Steven was one of a small handful of Utah attorneys qualified under the law to serve as court-appointed counsel in death penalty cases. In that capacity, on multiple occasions, he successfully negotiated resolutions that avoided the death penalty and literally spared the lives of his clients.

After leaving public criminal defense work, Steven has continued to focus exclusively on criminal defense in State and Federal Court. He has represented clients in a number of high-profile cases ranging from murder to child sexual offenses and is a proven advocate for his clients.

As a result of his ability to demonstrate weaknesses in the evidence and his dedication to his clients and the protection of their rights, he has recently secured outright dismissals or jury trial not guilty findings for clients facing serious charges including rape, child sex abuse, aggravated sexual abuse of a child, sodomy on a child, residential burglary and felony drug offenses. He brings that same devotion to each case.

Steven is a graduate of the National Criminal Defense College at Mercer School of Law, Macon, Georgia, and has been appointed as a mentor for young lawyers by the Utah Supreme Court. He is admitted to practice in State and Federal Court in Utah, Idaho, and Washington and is fluent in Spanish. Steven has been recognized by his peers as one of the State’s top Criminal Defense attorneys by having been named by Utah Business Magazine as one of Utah’s Legal Elite for 2013, 2014, and 2015.