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My name is Glen Neeley; I am currently one of two Board Certified DUI Defense Lawyers in Utah and I focus most of my practice on DUI and Drug offenses.  I have spent my twelve plus years of practice on the defense side.  I began to focus on DUI cases in late 1999 and early 2000 after becoming a member of the National College for DUI Defense.  I have hundreds of hours of continuing legal education on criminal law issues and specifically on DUI defense.. I have been married to the love of my life since 1995.  We have three beautiful and ambitious daughters.  I grew up in the Ogden, Utah area.  I am a religious man and served the Lord on an LDS Mission for two years in Canada preaching the Gospel. I also served my country for 8 years in the United States Air Force.  My family and I are blessed to live in Ogden and have many close family members and friends who we enjoy spending time with often.. Because my practice focuses on DUI defense, I often speak and lecture to other lawyers about how to defend a DUI case.  I have been interviewed by several TV stations, newspapers and other local media in cases and issues involving DUI or other intoxication issues.. My goal is to focus on each case that I take and provide personal client attention.  I try more cases in a year than most criminal lawyers try in ten years and I believe that is for several reasons.  I really enjoy my work.  I enjoy standing up for the person who cannot stand up for himself.  In most cases, I build a friendship with my clients.  I believe in people and their humanity.  If I can help them in their time of stress, I want to do whatever I can.  I enjoy trials.  I enjoy the stress that comes with being in trial and the feeling of being alive and giving of myself.  I believe that when I walk in that courtroom, as arrogant as this might sound, I am in charge and the goal is to help my client.

I was born and raised in the Ogden area and have lived here for nearly 40 years.  I have a beautiful wife who is a high school math teacher and four (4) awesome children.  I served a church mission to the beautiful country of  Taiwan and learned to speak Mandarin Chinese.  I love Asia and have traveled to China at least six (6) times.  Before I completed law school, graduating at the top of my class, I worked in law enforcement for over eight (8) years and use that experience to help my clients, when applicable.  I love what I do and enjoy helping people work through their problems and challenges.  Regardless of what you are facing, I always willing to help out by sitting down with you and helping direct you down the best path for you.  I love cycling and fly-fishing.  I also enjoy spending time with my wife and kids and try to travel when able.

After nearly ten years in the field of family law and fifteen years of mediation I have grown frustrated with the perpetual cycle.  On a regular basis I represented husbands or wives in their efforts to dissolve their marriages.  On rare occasions, because they come up rarely, I was asked to mediate with a couple that wanted to stay married.  In these rare cases when both partners to the marriage came to me to help resolve their marriages, it worked!  I celebrated the fact that the couple had survived the potential snare of believing ending their relationship would actually make life better.. I will clarify that there are cases in which divorce is unfortunately healthy for all parties involved, but in the vast majority of the cases I have worked with, which probably are in the hundreds, I am positive that the regular outcome was an enhanced status of instability, frustration, and perpetual conflict, which only increased, in some cases, when a new spouse or partner entered the picture.. This lead me to ask, "Why don't I help couples stay together?  Why don't I help families make it work?"  I realized that one person, would pay me thousands of dollars to end the marriage.  Why wasn't it likewise true that couples might pay thousands of dollars to fight for their marriage.  I will also end that thought with collaborative couples fighting for their marriage won't have to pay thousands of dollars.  They will learn how to approach conflict, reach agreements, set goals, and become effective partners in dispute resolution and a successful marriage.. So, I am inviting you NOT to get divorced.  Call me!  I will work hard for your marriage.  You loved the person you married.  You may wonder if that person still exists.  You may doubt that they can ever change.  You may not care, but I'm telling you from experience that your life will not be generally better by ending this relationship.  I believe in marriage and believe individuals can work for the preservation of the institution of marriage.. I will willingly mediate the following issues for couples, even those who are divorced, already or who have not married but have children together:. Couple issues, i.e. staying married, preserving the relationship, affairs/adulty, etc.. Parent-time/Visitation Issues. Custody Disputes. Finanical/Budget disputes. Step-Parent/Step-family issues. Parenting Agreements, i.e. helping parents agree on parenting approaches. Parent/Child conflicts, i.e. conflicts between parents and children. Probate Disputes. Extended Family Disputes. Etc. Additionally, I will consult and mediate as a mentor.  I believe some parents don't understand how to personally engage in conflict, parenting, marriage, or partner relations.  I can help that individual learn to mediate family conflicts, negotiate with children or a spouse or partner.  I want to help you make it work!