Isaac D. Paxman
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Overview:
Isaac Paxman is a member of Stepan Lewis & Paxman, LC. Mr. Paxman focuses his practice on civil litigation, an area in which he has extensive experience.
Isaac represents clients who have disputes, or otherwise need assistance, in areas such as the following:
- Business and commercial litigation (disputes among partners or co-owners, disputes with vendors, commercial lease disputes, etc.);
- Real estate (boundary disputes, failure to disclose material defects in real property being sold, breach of construction contracts, mortgage fraud, lien litigation, unlawful detainer/eviction);
- Employment (claims for unpaid compensation, breach of non-competition agreements discrimination, etc.);
- Tax disputes and litigation (challenges to tax assessments and challenges to tax collection activity, such as liens, wage levies, bank account levies, etc.);
- Domestic relations (divorces, modifications to divorce decrees, guardianships, conservatorships, etc.)
- Probate (inheritance disputes, etc.).
Isaac graduated cum laude from the J. Reuben Clark Law School, where he was chair of the Moot Court Board of Advocates and Winner of the Woody Deem Trial Advocacy Competition. Upon graduation, Isaac served a federal district court clerkship with the Honorable J. Thomas Greene in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Following his judicial clerkship, Isaac was selected for the U.S. Attorney General’s Honor Program in Washington, DC, where he began litigating civil tax cases with the Department of Justice Tax Division. At the Justice Department, he handled hundreds of cases in a variety of courts, including federal district and bankruptcy courts. His assignments included work on a case that garnered headlines and led to criminal indictments against an accounting firm and work on a case involving interpretation of the Japan-U.S. tax treaty.
While at the Justice Department, Mr. Paxman was awarded a Pegasus Trust Scholarship by the American Inns of Court. Through this scholarship, Mr. Paxman was immersed for three months in the inner workings of the British legal system. In London, he met with judges, attended trials, conducted research, and shadowed barristers in what was designed to be a taste of the pupilage barristers receive at the outset of their careers. The scholarship also took him to Scotland and Northern Ireland to observe legal practice there.
In addition to his Juris Doctor (and a bachelor’s degree in Japanese), Isaac holds a master’s degree in tax law (LL.M.) from Georgetown University in Washington, DC.
Isaac serves on the Executive Committee of the Litigation Section of the Utah State Bar and is a member of the Alumni Board at the J. Reuben Clark Law School. He has been an active participant in the American Inns of Court for 12 years.
Isaac lives in Provo with his wife and two children. Although his primary office is our firm’s Sandy office, he also has an office in the Jamestown Square business park in Provo.
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