Ralph L. Dewsnup

About Ralph

The former president and a founding member of DKOW, Ralph L. Dewsnup is among Utah’s most experienced and respected attorneys, especially in the area of complex personal injury litigation. He has been directly involved in the negotiation and/or trial of hundreds of personal injury cases involving medical malpractice, automobile accidents, and defective products. He has chaired the Prelitigation Task Force of the Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing for the State of Utah, and the subcommittee for drafting the first set of medical malpractice pattern jury instructions for Utah. He was a member of the Utah Judicial Council’s committee that drafted a second edition of Model Utah Jury Instructions and the Committee to Improve Jury Service. A federal court-approved mediator and arbitrator for Utah, he has been a senior lecturer and adjunct professor of law, teaching medical malpractice law at Brigham Young University’s J. Reuben Clark Law School. He is a former member of the Board of Trustees of the American Inns of Court Foundation. He is a member of the Utah State Bar, the Salt Lake County Bar Association, the Utah Association for Justice (UAJ), and the American Inns of Court, having served as President of UAJ and of the Aldon J. Anderson American Inn of Court (VII). He is the recipient of the Utah Association for Justice’s Outstanding Achievement Award and the A. Sherman Christensen Award of the American Inns of Court Foundation. He has been selected by his peers for listing in The Best Lawyers in America, and has been listed among Mountain States Super Lawyers and Salt Lake Magazine’s Top Attorneys in the Mountain States. He has also been inducted as a Life Fellow in the American Bar Foundation. He is admitted to practice before all Utah courts, both federal and state, and has also been admitted to practice before the Tenth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court.

Licensed States

Colleagues at Dewsnup King Olsen Worel Havas

David R. Olsen

Edward B. Havas

President

Paul M. Simmons

Of Counsel

Colin King

President

Michael A. Worel

Shareholder

Tyler S. Young

Of Counsel