Mr. Kaplan is a director and shareholder, and is the co-chair of the firm’s White Collar Crime, Government and Independent Investigations Group. His practice focuses on white collar crime investigations and trials, internal corporate investigations, criminal tax, securities, environmental, defense procurement, and related civil and administrative proceedings.

• Juris Doctor, Georgetown University Law Center (1973), Editor, The Georgetown Law Journal (1970-73)
• Bachelor of Science, Chemical Engineering, West Virginia University (1969)

• Utah Business Magazine, Utah Legal Elite, Criminal Law (2016, 2018-2019)
• Best Lawyers in America, Criminal Defense: White Collar (2015-2019)
• Mountain States Super Lawyers, Criminal Defense: White Collar, Business Litigation (2008-2018)
• Fellow, American Bar Foundation (2015)
• Mountain States Super Lawyers, Top 100 Lawyers (2013)
• AV Preeminent Rating, Martindale-Hubbell

• Adjunct Professor, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University (1990-1998)
• Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law Center (1981-1982)
• Faculty, National Institute for Trial Advocacy

• Assistant U.S. Attorney, United States Attorney’s Office (Washington, DC) (1974-1978)
• Trial Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, Fraud Section (1979-1981)

• “Precluding Use of a Co-defendant’s Civil Deposition in a Joint Criminal Trial,” Complex Crimes Journal (ABA) (1991)
• “The Convictions that Weren’t: McNally’s Bombshell,” Criminal Justice (ABA, Winter 1988)
• “Parallel Grand Jury and Administrative Agency Investigations,” ABA Press (1981)

• Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers (Federal Criminal Procedure Committee)
• Ethics Advisory Opinion Committee, Utah State Bar
• Former Master of Bench, A. Sherman Christiansen, American Inns of Court I

• Board of Directors, Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Salt Lake (2018-Present)
• Past President, Salt Lake City Jewish Community Center