About Mary Corporon

AV rated trial attorney with extensive federal and state jury trial experience. Super Lawyer rated; ABOTA member. Ms. Corporon’s practice focuses on criminal defense, domestic, family and juvenile law, and general jury trial. Prior to joining Christensen & Jensen, Ms. Corporon was a shareholder with VanCott, Bagley, Cornwall and McCarthy for four years.

Ms. Corporon was co-founder and partner in the law firm of Corporon & Williams, P.C. until 2011. She was an adjunct professor of trial advocacy from 1987 through 2013 at the University Of Utah College Of Law. She has presented numerous CLE seminars and conferences. Ms. Corporon was elected to the American Board of Trial Advocates in 2009, in which members must display civility and integrity, and have completed at least 20 trials to jury verdict.

Ms. Corporon is listed in the Best Lawyers in America® publication in the areas of Family Law and Family Law Mediation, and is listed by Utah Business Magazine as a Utah Legal Elite for criminal defense and family law. She has been recognized by Mountain States Super Lawyers in white collar, DUI/DWI and general criminal defense. She has also been recognized by Mountain States Super Lawyers as one of the Top 50 Women Attorneys. Mary has also been named by Utah Business Magazine as one of “Utah’s Legal Elite” for 2020 and received the highest possible peer/judge-reviewed 2019 Judicial AV Preeminent ® Rating for legal ability and ethical standards.

She has also been acknowledged on the Criminal Defense Super Lawyer list and awarded the AV Preeminent rating for 25 years. Mary has been recognized by her peers as the 2024 “Lawyer of the Year” in Family Law Mediation in Salt Lake City, she is the singular top lawyer in this field and jurisdiction this year. Mary is also featured in the 30th edition of “The Best Lawyers in America” for her exceptional work in Family Law, and Family Law Mediation. Ms. Corporon has had two cases reported in the nationally syndicated column, “News of the Weird.”

Proven verdicts and settlements at Christensen & Jensen, P.C.

These results are credited to Christensen & Jensen, P.C.. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$4 millionVerdict

Lillian Birt was in the ICU with respiratory failure, septic shock and reduced heart function. Her children agreed to discontinue life support because they understood from her doctors that her condition was terminal and treatment was only prolonging her death. It was not terminal, and there was a high likelihood she would have recovered. She died about eight hours later.

Utah district court (modified on direct appeal, Utah Supreme Court) · 2024Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
$2.4 millionVerdict

Amy Herzog worked at Jupiter Bowl in Kimball Junction. During a Park City Mountain Resort employee party in April 2019, a resort employee performed a 360-degree spin and released his ball into her lane while she was freeing a stuck ball from the gutter, crushing her left hand. Three surgeries left her with a permanently deformed hand that cannot form a fist. A Summit County jury found Vail Resorts 80 percent at fault and its employee 20 percent, awarded $2,402,000, and found the employee was acting within the scope of his employment. The trial judge later vacated the employer-liability finding and cut the award by 20 percent, but the Utah Court of Appeals reversed that ruling in 2025 and reinstated the full judgment.

Third District Court, Summit County, UT (reinstated in full by the Utah Court of Appeals) · 2022Workplace InjuryRead the full story →
$2 millionVerdict

Morley Reed Sprague had advanced multiple sclerosis and lower-body paralysis and could not reposition himself. He entered Avalon Care Center with a small stage-one pressure ulcer on his right buttock. Within a month it had deteriorated to exposed bone and become infected. He never recovered and died 22 months later.

Third District Court, Salt Lake County, UT (affirmed, Utah Court of Appeals) · 2017Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Education

S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah
J.D.
University of Utah
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Utah

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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.