About Brian Craig - Logan Lawyer

Brian Craig has 20 years of experience as a lawyer. Brian worked for several years in the legal publishing and legal information services industry as an attorney for Thomson-Reuters and Wolters Kluwer gaining experience with contracts, tax law, privacy law, and other practice areas. 

Brian is an accomplished legal writer as the author of Cyberlaw: The Law of the Internet and Information Technology (Pearson) and Stringfellow Acid Pits: The Toxic and Legal Legacy (University of Michigan Press). He has also written articles relating to real estate law, privacy law, legal writing, and legal history.

Brian currently serves as a prelitigation panel chairperson with the Utah Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing for medical malpractice cases. He has also served as a volunteer with the Cache County Thursday Night Bar self-help clinic, Legal Assistance of Dakota County (Minnesota), and Utah Legal Services. 

A resident of Providence, Brian enjoys hiking up Logan Canyon, reading John Grisham novels, and playing the piano.

JD, University of Idaho, 2001

BA, Brigham Young University, 1997

Books available on Amazon

Stringfellow Acid Pits: The Toxic and Legal Legacy (University of Michigan Press, 2020). Book review appearing in California Litigation: The Journal of the Litigation Section of the California Lawyers Association. Book review appearing in the Spring 2022 issue of Natural Resources & Environment published by the American Bar Association. 

Latter Day Lawyers (Kindle Direct Publishing, 2019), foreword by Senator Harry Reid. See also blog interview and LDS Living magazine article

Cyberlaw: The Law of the Internet and Information Technology (Pearson, 2012)

Selected Articles

Book Review: Burton’s Legal Thesaurus, Federal Lawyer (January/February 2022)

Attorney Question of the Month, Armed Citizens' Legal Defense Network Journal, January 2022

Attorney Question of the Month, Armed Citizens' Legal Defense Network Journal, July 2021

Utah Leads in Adopting the Uniform Electronic Wills Act, WealthCounsel Quarterly, Winter 2021

Attorney Question of the Month, Armed Citizens' Legal Defense Network Journal, March 2021

Attorney Question of the Month, Armed Citizens' Legal Defense Network Journal, August 2020

Getting your estate plan in order with the coronavirus threat, Published on LinkedIn, March 20, 2020

Effective Use of the Hyphen, En Dash, and Em Dash in Legal Writing, Federal Lawyer, 45 (September/October 2019)

Why Young Families Need An Estate Plan, Cache Valley Family Magazine, Fall 2019, 30. 

Book Review: Before Lincoln Saved the Union, He Fought to Save a Client from the Gallows, Utah Bar Journal, Vol. 32, No. 5, 26 (September/October 2019)

Guest commentary: Nine legal tips for Logan landlords, tenants, Herald Journal, July 17, 2019 

Online Satellite and Aerial Images: Issues and Analysis, 83 North Dakota Law Review 547 (2007) 

Construction and Constitutionality of the Freedom to Display the American Flag Act, 36 Real Estate Law Journal 7 (2007)

The Freedom to Display the American Flag Act: Implications for Counsel Representing Associations and Homeowners, 36 Real Estate Review 27 (2007)

Beyond Black’s and Webster’s: The Persuasive Value of Thesauri in Legal Research and Writing, 16 Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research & Writing 169 (2007)

Legal Briefs: Helpful but also Hazardous, 13 Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research & Writing 132 (2005)