{"id":3066,"date":"2022-07-15T16:32:34","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T16:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/?p=3066"},"modified":"2022-07-22T18:56:15","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T18:56:15","slug":"rules-governing-the-utah-state-bar-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/2022\/07\/15\/rules-governing-the-utah-state-bar-36\/","title":{"rendered":"Rules Governing the Utah State Bar &#8211; Effective August 1, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/07\/USB14-209.Final_.Repeal.Redline.pdf\">USB14-0209.<\/a><strong> U<\/strong><b>tah Bar Foundation.<\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b><strong>REPEAL<\/strong>. The Utah Bar Foundation amended\u00a0and restated\u00a0its\u00a0Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws and no longer has a defined membership. This rule is thus moot and is therefore repealed.<\/p>\n<div><b>Background<\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Utah Bar Foundation (UBF) was created in 1963 as a 501(c)(3) organization. Its original purpose was to raise funds from members of the legal community in order to support civil legal aid for lower-income Utahns, to fund law-related education, to further the administration of justice, and to support other worthwhile law-related causes.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Section 2.1 of UBF\u2019s 1963 founding Bylaws stated the following: \u201cSection 2.1 Classification, Qualification, Privileges and Election of Members. The corporation shall have one class of members consisting of all duly qualified, active members of the Utah State Bar who are in good standing. Each member shall have one (1) vote at any meeting of the members.\u201d At some point many years ago, language in substantially the same form was codified in Rule 14-209.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>UBF stopped raising private funds from the legal community in 1999 when nonprofit \u201cand Justice for all\u201d was created. \u201cand Justice for all\u201d now serves as the primary fundraising organization in the legal community.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Because UBF has evolved to receive financial support from a wide variety of sources and not solely from private legal community funds, the UBF Board\u00a0held a meeting of its members to vote on proposed Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws that would eliminate a defined membership.\u00a0By removing the defined membership, now any\u00a0active, inactive, and non-attorney\u00a0with an interest in access to justice issues\u00a0is\u00a0eligible to serve on the Utah Bar Foundation Board of Directors. It also rendered moot the language of Rule 14-209.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The vote on the Amended and\u00a0Restated Articles of Incorporation and\u00a0Bylaws\u00a0took place in December 2021. All duly qualified, active members of the Utah State Bar in good standing were invited to attend. Notice for that meeting was provided in the Utah Bar Journal and given via email to all qualified UBF members as their email addresses appeared on the records of the Utah State Bar.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Please contact the Foundation offices for any questions or additional information at 801-297-7046 or via email at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:kim@utahbarfoundation.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">kim@utahbarfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/07\/Repeal-of-Bar-Rule-14-209-effective-8-1-22-signed.pdf\">Supreme Court Order<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USB14-0209. Utah Bar Foundation.\u00a0REPEAL. The Utah Bar Foundation amended\u00a0and restated\u00a0its\u00a0Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws and no longer has a defined membership. This rule is thus moot and is therefore repealed. Background The Utah Bar Foundation (UBF) was created in 1963 as a 501(c)(3) organization. Its original purpose was to raise funds from members of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[529,1053],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rules-governing-the-utah-state-bar","category-usb14-0209"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-05 08:32:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3066"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3082,"href":"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3066\/revisions\/3082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-approved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}