Cliff Parkinson is litigator with experience in commercial litigation, intellectual property, and energy law. He also spent five years in-house as associate general counsel for an R-1, land-grant university where he handled a broad range of Higher Education issues including student and faculty affairs, administrative litigation, and constitutional issues.

Cliff began his career as a law clerk to the Honorable Dee V. Benson of the District Court for the District of Utah and then to the Honorable Monroe G. McKay of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Cliff holds a law degree from Brigham Young University’s J. Reuben Clark School of Law, a Master of Arts in Classics from Florida State University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Classics from Brigham Young University.

• Brigham Young University (J.D. 2010)
• Florida State University (M.A. 2012)
• Brigham Young University (B.A. 2007)

• Utah Supreme Court
• U.S. District Court for the District of Utah
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit

• Utah State Bar’s Indian Law Section (Secretary)
• Utah Center for Legal Inclusion (Leadership Committee)
• Former Chair of the Indian Child Welfare Act Sub-committee of the Utah Bar’s Indian Law Section (2020-2022)

• Utah’s Legal Elite, Utah Business Magazine (2022-In House Counsel)
• Utah’s Legal Elite, Utah Business Magazine (2021-Energy and Natural Resource Law)

• Co-Author of Amicus Curiae Brief for Digdeep Right to Water Project et al, Arizona v. Navajo Nation, U.S. Supreme Court Case Nos. 21-1484 and 22-51 (February 2023) (Co-authored with Elizabeth G. Bentley, Heather Tanana, Elisabeth Parker, and Frannie Monesterio)