Steven C. Bednar

Steven C. Bednar Partner 801.363.5678   vCard   Print    Practice Areas: Labor and Employment Commercial Litigation

Steven C. Bednar is one of the founding partners of Manning Curtis Bradshaw & Bednar LLC where he practices employment law, representing several major state, regional and national employers.  Mr. Bednar has been recognized in the area of employment law for the past several years in "Utah's Legal Elite" in Utah Business Magazine, as one of America's Leading Lawyers for Business in Chambers USA's The Client's Guide, as one of the The Best Lawyers in America in the area of employment law, in Super Lawyers in area of employment law, and he has been recognized as "Employment Lawyer of the Year" by the Labor and Employment Section of the Utah Bar. Mr. Bednar has extensive federal, state and administrative trial experience in virtually every area of employment-related litigation and provides practical consulting and training to employers in all areas of employment-related regulation. Mr. Bednar has served as outside employment counsel to Utah’s largest private employer, Intermountain Healthcare, since1994 and provides employment-related representation in litigation and counseling to numerous other visible businesses, including, EnergySolutions, SelectHealth, Sinclair Oil Company, Grand America & Little America Hotels, Sun Valley Resort, Smith's Food & Drug Centers, Inc., Stein Eriksen Lodge, Zermatt Resort, Franklin Covey Co., R.C. Willey Home Furnishings, Inc., Loomis Fargo, Co., Basic Research, and Cookietree Bakeries.
 Mr. Bednar graduated magna cum laude from the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University where he served on the Editorial Board of the B.Y.U. Law Review and is a member of the Order of the Coif.  After graduation, he served as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Pierce Lively, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.  He is an experienced speaker on topics such as wrongful termination, employee privacy, workplace violence, employment-related torts, employee handbooks, wage and hour law, non-competition and confidentiality agreements, employment arbitration and the ADA.  Mr. Bednar has several publications on employment-related topics and has authored a 200-page employer's manual entitled Employment Law Desk Reference Manual: Summary of Federal and State Regulation (6th ed. 2007), which includes chapters summarizing federal employment statutes, the Utah Labor Code, wrongful termination law, and employee privacy law.



Practice Emphasis:

• Employment law litigation and counseling —Commercial litigation
• ERISA litigation —Medical malpractice

Education and Accomplishments:

• J.D., J Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, magna cum laude 1990
• B.A., Brigham Young University, 1987

Licensed:

• United States Supreme Court
• Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals
• Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
• Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
• Second Circuit Court of Appeals
• Utah
• Idaho

Professional Affiliations, Activities and Service:

• Salt Lake County Bar Association
• Davis County Bar Association
• Listed in Best Lawyers in America, Mountain States Super Lawyers and Utah's Legal Elite - Labor and Employment Law
  
• Former Faculty Member, University of Phoenix
• Best Oralist: First-Year Moot Court Competition 1988
• Lead Articles Editor for the Brigham Young University Law Review, 1990
• Order of the Coif, 1990
• Judicial Clerk to Hon. Pierce Lively, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 1990-1991

Publications: Books and Manuals

• S.C. Bednar, EMPLOYMENT LAW DESK REFERENCE MANUAL: SUMMARY OF FEDERAL AND STATE REGULATION (6th ed. 2007) (200-page manual with chapters summarizing Federal Employment Statutes, the Utah Labor Code, Wrongful Termination law, and Employee Privacy law).
• R.L. Bednar, S.C. Bednar, M. Lambert & D. Waite, PSYCHOTHERAPY WITH HIGH-RISK CLIENTS:LEGAL AND PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS, (Brooks/Cole Pub. Co., 1991).

Publications: Law Review & Law Journal

• S.C. Bednar, Employment Law Dilemmas: What To Do When the Law Forbids Compliance, B.Y.U. J. Pub.L. (January 1998).
• S.C. Bednar, The Psychotherapist's Calamity: Tarasoff in Adolescence, 1989 B.Y.U. L. Rev. 261.

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