Don Winder, Founder of Winder & Counsel

If you need a law firm for your business or litigation needs, our experienced attorneys and staff would like to help you. We have been helping individuals, businesses and insurance companies for 30 years.

We represent numerous and varied business clients and insurance companies (See lists of Insurance Companies We Have Represented and Representative Clients.)

By combining law and medicine, we are also uniquely qualified to represent you or your company in cases involving serious injury or complex medical issues. We know of no other firm in Utah comprised of an attorney who is also a medical doctor and an attorney who is also a registered nurse.

We feel certain you will be pleased with our expert services and our reasonable fees. Just contact us for more information or browse the various areas of this web site.

Laura Tanner, Associate Attorney at Winder & Counsel

• Judge: Salt Lake City can install new cab service at airport, elsewhere , Salt Lake Tribune (April 30, 2013)
• Utah: BP Amoco double-dipped on insurance, Salt Lake Tribune (December 4, 2012)
• 9/11 Lawsuit: Federal Court Awards $7 Billion in Final Judgment Against Iran and Hezbollah (October 17, 2012)

For more news coverage, please visit our News Publications page.

• Donald J. Winder
• John W. Holt
• Linette Bailey Hutton, R.N.
• Laura H. Tanner
• Robert K. Rothfeder, M.D., of counsel
• Jerald V. Hale, of counsel
• Timothy W. Emery, of counsel
• Patrick B. Reddy, of counsel

The law firm of Winder & Counsel was formed in 1983.  The firm is composed of experienced, dynamic and highly respected attorneys.
Donald J. Winder has been listed in Best Lawyers in America since 2003. Less than 2% of all attorneys in Utah have been so honored. Donald J. Winder is also a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates and is the only attorney in Utah to be Board Certified in Civil Trial Advocacy by the National Board of Trial Advocates. Further, Donald J. Winder & Linette B. Hutton are Fellows in Litigation Counsel of America, a trial honorary society limited to less than ½ of 1% of all attorneys.

Donald J. Winder has been interviewed on Fox National News (live on several occasions), CNN and CNN International, Global TV, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and numerous times on and by Salt Lake City’s local television and radio stations, and local, national and international newspapers.

Linette B. Hutton (Insurance Coverage) was selected in 2008 and Donald J. Winder (Business Litigation) was selected in the 2007 through present list of Mountain States Super Lawyers. Fewer than 850 of all attorneys in the Intermountain West were selected. Further, Donald J. Winder has been selected as one of The Top Seventy-Five Attorneys in the Mountain States (2007-08).

Donald J. Winder (Business Litigation) and Linette B. Hutton (Civil Trial) have additionally been selected many times for inclusion in the Utah Legal Elite, as published by the Utah Business Magazine. John W. Holt (Business Litigation) is listed in the Utah Legal Elite (2007-2010) and has been listed in The Insurance Bar (2005-06), a selected directory of preeminent lawyers.

For more than 20 years, the firm has received the highest peer review rating given by Martindale-Hubbell ("AV"); has been approved by Best's Directory of Recommended Insurance Attorneys; is a member of the International Network of Boutique Law Firms, the International Society of Primerus Law Firms and is listed in the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers.  Less than 5% of all U.S. law firms qualify and are included in the Bar Register.