Lincoln W. Hobbs
Lincoln W. Hobbs, founding member and manager of the firm, was born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1960. He attended the University of Utah as an undergraduate, receiving a B.A. in English in 1982. Lincoln attended the University of Utah College of Law, and was the Editor-in Chief of the Journal of Contemporary Law. While at the University of Utah College of Law, he was a Leary Scholar.
Following graduation from law school in 1986, Lincoln was an associate and thereafter a shareholder in the firm of Winder & Haslam, P.C. In early 1999, he left that firm to start Lincoln W. Hobbs, L.C. At the end of 1999, Margaret Olson, a colleague from Winder & Haslam, joined the firm.
Lincoln is active in numerous professional and community service projects, having served for years as a member of the Utah State Bar's Ethics and Discipline Panel, and for many years as an officer of the Utah State Bar Labor and Employment Section, of which he served as chair in 2002-03. Lincoln is also the founder and past president of the Utah Chapter of the Community Associations Institute (CAI), an organization dedicated to fostering vibrant, responsive, competent community associations. In the Spring of 2003, the Community Associations Institute gave Lincoln the Award of Excellence in Chapter Leadership, in recognition of his service to the Community Associations Institute and the Utah community association industry.
In the Spring of 2004, Lincoln was the first lawyer in the state of Utah to be inducted into the College of Community Association Lawyers, an organization established to acknowledge CAI member attorneys who have distinguished themselves through contributions to the evolution or practice of community association law and who have committed themselves to high standards of professional and ethical conduct in the practice of community association law. Lincoln serves as a member of the CAI National Faculty, teaching several courses every year throughout the United States, on community association management, governance and risk management. Lincoln also serves as the president of board of the Foundation for Community Association Research.
In 2009, Lincoln compiled and edited, with others, the CAIRF Best Practices guide to green practices and sustainability for community associations.
Lincoln has been recognized with the highest available rating ("AV") from Martindale-Hubbell, the nation's leading directory of attorneys and law firms. He has been consistently recognized as one of Utah's "Legal Elite" by Utah Business Magazine, for many years in the category of labor and employment law, and most recently being listed for 2007, 2008 and again in 2009 in the field of business litigation. Lincoln was recently selected for the third consecutive year as a Mountain States SuperLawyer with real estate law as his primary area of practice, reflecting his selection as one of the top 5 percent of attorneys in Utah, as chosen by his peers through the independent research of Law & Politics. Lincoln was recently selected to appear once again in the upcoming edition of SuperLawyers, Corporate Counsel Edition.
Lincoln is licensed to practice law in the States of Utah, Idaho and Wyoming.