About Judson Burton

Judson D. Burton joined Parker & McConkie in 2023, where he focuses on complex personal injury cases including catastrophic injuries, brain trauma, wrongful death, defective products, industrial accidents, trucking and auto collisions, slip and falls, dog bites, and governmental liability. He has appeared before mediators, arbitrators, district courts, the Utah Court of Appeals, and the Utah Supreme Court. Judson earned his J.D. from BYU's J. Reuben Clark Law School in 2015 and then clerked for the Honorable Chief Justice Matthew B. Durrant of the Utah Supreme Court. He later earned a master's degree with distinction in Ethics, Epistemology, and the Philosophy of Mind from the University of Edinburgh.

He is also an adjunct professor in the Philosophy Department at BYU, teaching courses on the philosophy of law and religion. Judson is a member of the National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40 and serves on the Utah Association for Justice Amicus Curiae Committee. He lives in Utah with his wife, Angela, and their two daughters.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Parker & McConkie Personal Injury Lawyers

These results are credited to Parker & McConkie Personal Injury Lawyers. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$52.2 millionVerdictTop 10 in Utah · #4

A federal jury in Utah awarded $52.2 million to the survivors of Rulon Allred, believed at the time to be the largest wrongful death verdict in state history, against the woman who confessed in print to killing him 15 years earlier.

U.S. District Court, District of Utah · 1992Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

Parker and McConkie secured a $13.5 million settlement for the family of Lauren McCluskey, a University of Utah track athlete murdered on campus after police failed to act on her repeated stalking reports.

Salt Lake City / State of Utah · 2020Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$5 millionSettlement

The University of Utah agreed to pay $5 million to the parents of Zhifan Dong, a 19-year-old international student killed by her boyfriend at a Salt Lake City hotel in February 2022, after an internal review confirmed university staff missed repeated warning signs that she was in danger.

Salt Lake City / State of Utah · 2023Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$1.5 millionSettlement

Salt Lake County paid $1.5 million to the mother of a 25-year-old woman who died of methamphetamine toxicity at the county jail after nursing staff dismissed her overdose symptoms as a panic attack and left her unmonitored in a prone position.

Salt Lake County, Utah · 2023Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

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

Practice areas

Education

J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University
J.D., 2015
University of Edinburgh
Undergraduate

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