Kamie Brown serves as Chair of the Firm’s Litigation Section. She has extensive experience representing a wide range of manufacturers, distributors and insurers in product liability and commercial litigation matters. She serves as litigation counsel for corporations, including Fortune 500 companies, in a variety of settings, including high-profile, mass tort cases in jurisdictions across the country. Ms. Brown has handled a myriad of cases, including multi-district litigation in high-stakes transportation accidents; the defense of product liability actions involving pharmaceuticals, medical devices, automobiles, motorcycles, airplanes, helicopters, recreational vehicles, tobacco, asbestos, chemicals, electrical equipment, children’s products and industrial equipment; insurance coverage and contract disputes. Ms. Brown assisted the Product Liability Subcommittee of the Utah Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Civil Jury Instructions drafting revised jury instructions for product liability cases.
Awards and Recognition
- Chambers USA in Litigation: General Commercial
- The Best Lawyers in America© 2026 in Commercial Litigation and Product Liability Litigation
- AV Preeminent rating with Martindale-Hubbell
- Utah’s “Legal Elite,” as published by Utah Business Magazine
- Mountain States Super Lawyers for many years in the categories of Top 100, Top 50 Women, Personal Injury Products: Defense and Rising Star
- Utah Business Magazine’s 30 Women to Watch
Education
Brigham Young University, J.D., 1999
- Magna Cum Laude
- Order of the Coif
- BYU Law Review, Lead Note and Comment Editor
- Trial Advocacy Board A.H. Christensen Award for Excellence in Legal Advocacy
Southern Utah University, B.S., Political Science and English, 1995
- Summa Cum Laude
Professional and Civic Activity
- Board Member, Fight the New Drug, (February 2020-present)
- President, Corner Canyon Youth Lacrosse, (March 2018-January 2021)
- President, The Road Home Board of Trustees (2013-2014); Past-President (2014-2015); President-Elect (2012-2013); Secretary (2009-2011)
- Chair, Administration Committee (2011-2012); Member, Services Committee, The Road Home Shelter (2006-2015)
- Guardian Ad Litem, Volunteer in Child Custody Disputes
- Volunteer Attorney Instructor, High School Teaching Program
- Volunteer Judge, Moot Court and Trial Advocacy Competitions
- Volunteer, Holy Cross Ministries
Affiliations / Memberships
- Utah Bar Association
- American Bar Association (Air and Space Law Section, Tort and Insurance Practice Section, Litigation Section)
- Association of Trial Lawyers of America
- Defense Research Institute (Drug and Device Section, Product Liability Section)
- A. Sherman Christensen American Inn of Court
- Senior Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America
- Member, Trial Law Institute
- Member, Diversity Law Institute
- Barrister, Order of Justitia
Professional Experience
- Partner, Snell & Wilmer, LLP, Salt Lake City Office
- Judicial Extern, Utah Supreme Court, Justice I. Daniel Stewart
- Judicial Extern, United States District Court, District of Utah, Judge J. Thomas Greene
- Law Clerk, U.S. Department of the Interior, Office of Hearings and Appeals
- Legislative Assistant/Correspondent, Congressman James V. Hansen
- Staff Assistant, Senator Robert F. Bennett, Southern Utah
- Admitted to Practice
- Utah State Bar
Utah Supreme Court
United States District Court, District of Utah
United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit
Awards
Presentations and
Publications
- Featured on “Wingtips” Podcast, Defense Research Institute’s Aviation Law Committee, March 2, 2021
- Defense Research Institute, "Defending a Hull Loss Claim", For The Defense Magazine (December 2017)
- Featured, Attorney at Law Magazine, Women in Law, Volume 2, No. 3, pp. 18-19 (Summer 2014)
- Speaker, Altria 2011 Diversity Roundtable, Richmond, Virginia (June 2011)
- Speaker, Outside Counsel’s Litigation Wish List, Utah State Bar Corporate Counsel Section (May 2011)
- Speaker, Litigating the Hull Loss Claim, SMU Air Law Symposium (February 2010)
- Speaker, Understanding the Science Behind Your Case: A Primer on Pharmacology for Litigators, ABA Litigation Section; Current Issues in Pharmaceutical Litigation & Policy (November 2007)
- Utah Wilderness Issues: Secretary Babbitt’s Re-Inventory Initiative and Congressman Hansen’s Bill to Amend the Antiquities Act, American Bar Association Public Lands and Land Use Committee Newsletter (January 2000)
- San Rafael Preservation Bill, American Bar Association Public Lands and Land Use Committee Newsletter (May 2000)
- Parent Corporation Liability for Subsidiary Violations Under § 107 of CERCLA: Responding to United States v. Cordova Chemical Co. , 1998 BYU Law Review 265 (1998)
