Utah’s Best Lawyers for Personal Injury

Charles Thronson is listed in the Top 100 Lawyers in Utah, Mountain States Super Lawyers, and has been recognized since 1995 in The Best Lawyers in America (2012, 2016 Plaintiffs’ Lawyer of the Year – Medical Malpractice (Salt Lake City); 2019 Lawyer of the Year – Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs (Salt Lake City). He was named 2020 Best Lawyers in America “Best of the Best” and 2021 National Alliance of Attorneys – Attorney of the Year – Personal Injury.

He is the senior active shareholder at Parsons Behle & Latimer and head of the Personal Injury/Medical Malpractice Division, specializing in birth injuries. He has over 40 years of experience and practices throughout the United States.

Major verdicts include the largest personal injury/medical malpractice verdict in the state of Utah’s history (2015 – $11,268,178) in a medical malpractice brain injury case.

Accomplishments

ACADEMIC

Harvard University – Postgraduate (Fundamentals of Neuroscience, 2021)
Creighton University (J.D., magna cum laude, 1977; ranked 3rd in class of 172)

PRACTICE AREAS

Medical Malpractice, Birth Injury & Hospital Negligence
Personal Injury

Michael Young is a trial lawyer at Parsons Behle & Latimer with significant experience in administrative, commercial, and personal injury matters.

Mr. Young began practicing as an attorney in the Special Department for War Crimes in the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina. During his time in Bosnia, he worked as part of the legal team that over several months of trial successfully prosecuted Marko Radic and others for crimes against humanity. His work on the Radic trial team was particularly focused on crimes of rape and sexual assault. As the centerpiece of his practice, Mr. Young continues to represent victims of sexual assault in civil litigation against individuals, governmental entities, and private institutions.

In addition to his sexual assault and abuse practice, Mr. Young also litigates mass tort, Qui Tam (whistleblower), and personal injury matters and has significant experience in numerous jurisdictions across the country. His experience in these areas of practice includes litigating product liability, medical malpractice, fraud, and trucking collision cases.

Finally, Mr. Young also possesses significant general commercial litigation experience in construction defect and intellectual property matters. As a general litigator, he is consistently rated by his peers as among the best attorneys in the region.

Lauren M. Hunt is a member of Parsons Behle & Latimer’s litigation, trials and appeals practice group. Prior to joining Parsons, Lauren worked for more than five years as a prosecuting attorney with the Utah County Attorney’s Office. She was admitted to practice in Utah in 2013.

During her time at the Utah County Attorney’s Office, Lauren prosecuted misdemeanors and felonies including thefts, assaults, DUI’s and homicides, but she specialized in prosecuting sex crimes and was a member of Utah County Attorney’s Office Special Victims Unit. Lauren has represented clients in 20 cases through jury trial.