If you need a law firm for your business or litigation needs, our experienced attorneys and staff would like to help you. We have been helping businesses and insurance companies for more than 25 years.

We represent numerous and varied business clients and insurance companies (See lists of Insurance Companies We Have Represented and Representative Clients.)

By combining law and medicine, we are also uniquely qualified to represent you or your company in cases involving serious injury or complex medical issues. We know of no other firm in Utah comprised of an attorney who is also a medical doctor and an attorney who is also a registered nurse.

We feel certain you will be pleased with our expert services and our reasonable fees. Just contact us for more information or browse the various areas of this web site.

The law firm of Winder & Counsel was formed in 1983.  The firm is composed of experienced, dynamic and highly respected attorneys.
Donald J. Winder is listed in Best Lawyers in America. Less than 2% of all attorneys in Utah have been so honored. Donald J. Winder is also a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates and is the only attorney in Utah to be Board Certified in Civil Trial Advocacy by the National Board of Trial Advocates. Further, Donald J. Winder & Linette B. Hutton are Fellows in Litigation Counsel of America, a trial honorary society limited to less than ½ of 1% of all American attorneys.

Donald J. Winder has been interviewed on Fox National News (live on several occasions), CNN and CNN International, Global TV, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and numerous times on and by Salt Lake City’s local television and radio stations, and local, national and international newspapers.

Linette B. Hutton (Insurance Coverage) was selected in 2008 and Donald J. Winder (Business Litigation) was selected in the 2007 through present list of Mountain States Super Lawyers. Fewer than 850 of all attorneys in the Intermountain West were selected. Further, Donald J. Winder has been selected as one of The Top Seventy-Five Attorneys in the Mountain States (2007-08).

Donald J. Winder (Business Litigation), John W. Holt (Business Litigation) and Linette B. Hutton (Civil Trial) have additionally been selected for inclusion in the 2009 edition of the Utah Legal Elite, as published in the January edition of the Utah Business Magazine.  John W. Holt has been listed in The Insurance Bar (2005-06), a selected directory of preeminent lawyers.

The firm has the highest peer review rating given by Martindale-Hubbell ("AV"); has been approved by Best's Directory of Recommended Insurance Attorneys; is a member of the International Network of Boutique Law Firms, the International Society of Primerus Law Firms and is listed in the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers.  Less than 5% of all U.S. law firms qualify and are included in the Bar Register.

• Donald J. Winder
• John W. Holt
• Linette Bailey Hutton, R.N.
• Jerald V. Hale
• Lance Sorenson
• Michelle Winder McDonald
• Robert K. Rothfeder, M.D., of counsel