Legal Services Innovation Committee
The Legal Services Innovation (LSI) Committee is comprised of volunteers appointed by the Utah Supreme Court.
Alyson McAllister
LSI Committee Chair
Alyson is the immediate Past-President of the Utah Association for Justice and a Past Chair of their Women’s Caucus. She serves on the Board of Governors for the UAJ and for the American Association for Justice. Alyson has served on several judicial committees, including her current service on the Rules of Professional Conduct Committee, the Model Utah Jury Instructions Committee (which she currently chairs), the Legal Services Innovation committee, and the Civil Committee for the Federal Court Local Rules of Civil Procedure.
She is frequently invited to lecture other lawyers at legal seminars on a variety of subjects, including civil rights, Utah’s legal sandbox, medical malpractice, litigation and trial strategies and other personal injury topics. She also regularly serves as a mentor to new lawyers admitted to the Utah State Bar.
Nick Hafen
LSI Committee VICE CHAIR
Nick Hafen is the Head of Legal Technology Education and leads the development of the Law School’s legal technology curriculum, including LawX and the Legal Technology Initiative. Nick also supports faculty members engaged in tech-related research and serves as faculty advisor for the Law, Innovation, Technology & Entrepreneurship (LITE) student organization.
Nick earned a J.D. at Brigham Young University and practiced bankruptcy and corporate law in private practice prior to joining the Law Library.
Ciriac Alvarez Valle
LSI Committee Member
Ciriac Alvarez Valle is passionate about advocating for children & family issues. She combines her personal and professional experience to build bridges in advocacy & bringing people together to shift policies. During her undergraduate and early career, she focused her efforts in community organizing for immigration reform and empowering the immigrant community. She continues to work in policy change by working with impacted communities.
Ciriac currently works as a Senior Policy Analyst at Voices for Utah Children. She graduated with a B.S. in Political Science and Sociology from the University of Utah. Her work at Voices for Utah Children is focused primarily on children’s health care and policies that impact immigrant families. She is a proud immigrant herself born in Cuernavaca Morelos, Mexico.
Lindsey Brandt
LSI Committee Member
Brandt became a Utah licensed paralegal practitioner, or LPP, in May 2022. She works alongside lawyers in a family and criminal law office in Lehi, UT. She has a master’s degree in public administration, with an emphasis in nonprofit work, and also volunteers at a free legal clinic.
Brandt wrote an article for the Bar Journal in January 2023. She is also the recipient of the Debbie Meyers Outstanding Community Service Award.
Christopher J. Martinez
LSI Committee Member
Christopher J. Martinez graduated from the University of Utah with a B.A. in English. In 2011, Mr. Martinez received his juris doctorate degree from the Mitchell Hamline University, School of Law. After returning home from school Mr. Martinez immediately began volunteering in the Legal Aid Family Law Clinic at the Matheson Courthouse. Shortly after, Mr. Martinez was hired at the clinic as a paralegal while he was preparing for the bar exam. After being admitted to the Utah Bar, he worked as a domestic relations staff attorney until 2022 when he was promoted to Domestic Relations Program Director, his current position.
Mr. Martinez was a student liaison for Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers, the Minnesota Bar’s employer assistance program from 2008-2011. In 2011 he joined Lawyers Helping Lawyers as a board member where he continues to serve. He was a committee member on the Committee on Resources for Self-represented Parties from 2014 through 2018. He has also had advocacy training with UCASA (Utah Coalition Against Sexual Assault), and USARA (Utah Support Advocates for Recovery Awareness).
Mr. Martinez grew up in Sandy, Utah and currently resides in Salt Lake City where he intends to raise his family. He can usually be found at Fit to Recover.
Kimberly Farnsworth
LSI Committee Member
Kimberly Farnsworth graduated from BYU Law School in 2024. During law school, she participated in legal technology competitions and was on the Board of BYU’s Innovation and Technology Club. She has worked for the Access to Justice Office for almost three years, first as the Pro Bono Promoter and then as Training and Special Projects Counsel. As Training and Special Projects Counsel, she has started using AI and low-code solutions to automate the Access to Justice Office’s various pro bono projects.
Gretchen Lee
LSI Committee Member
Gretchen is an attorney and a court-qualified mediator with the Utah Courts. She is the Executive Director of Mountain Mediation, a nonprofit organization in Summit County which helps people resolve disputes outside the courtroom. She has an extensive government relations background, having worked as an attorney for the Utah State Legislature as well as the private and nonprofit sectors drafting resolutions, initiatives and other policy documents.
Gretchen is currently serving as Chair of the Board of Trustees for the Utah Council of Conflict Resolution. She graduated from Colgate University and Emory School of Law.
Megan Glasmann
LSI Committee Member
Meg Glasmann is a Utah-based attorney and bioethics researcher. She recently completed a clerkship for the honorable presiding Judge Michele Christiansen Forster at the Utah Court of Appeals. Before becoming an attorney, Meg completed two masters degrees (M.Ed., M.Phil.) in Educational Psychology and was involved in leadership for several years at the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute overseeing student-led programming. In the fall of 2024, Meg traveled abroad for six weeks for a distinguished and highly selective fellowship as an American Inns of Court Pegasus Scholar to observe international law and policy in action in London, Edinburgh, Dublin, and the Hague. She is eager to contribute to the LSI committee and is committed to furthering access to justice across the state of Utah.
J. Brett Chambers
LSI Committee Member
J. Brett Chambers is an attorney serving Utah and Wyoming, with expertise spanning personal injury, business, and appellate litigation. He currently serves as a Utah State Bar Commissioner for the First Division and on the Utah Supreme Court Advisory Committee on the Rules of Civil Procedure. His professional involvement includes serving as past president of the Cache County Bar Association and maintaining active membership in both the Utah and Wyoming State Bars. A proud graduate of Utah State University and the University of Michigan Law School, Brett returned to Cache Valley with his wife to raise their family and enjoys skiing and exploring the outdoors with his children.