Monte Neil Stewart

Over the past several decades, Mr. Stewart has achieved at the highest levels of the legal profession, serving as Nevada’s United States Attorney, as highest-rated (A.V., 5.0) trial and appellate lawyer, as a founder of preeminent private-practice and public-interest law firms in Nevada and surrounding states, and as law clerk to the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.  

Mr. Stewart serves clients in one practice area: litigation (with emphasis on complex litigation of all kinds and on appellate work). He has litigated some of the highest-profile cases in the intermountain West.

Areas of Practice

• Civil rights, civil liberties, and constitutional law
• Business litigation
• Professional licensing and disciplinary actions

Bar Admissions

• California, 1976
• Nevada, 1981
• Utah, 1998
• Idaho, 2008
• United States Supreme Court
• Numerous federal district and circuit courts

Education

• University of Oxford, M.St., with distinction, 2004
• J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, J.D., summa cum laude and first-in-class, 1976
• Brigham Young University, B.A. (English), summa cum laude and Highest Honors, 1973

Professional and Civic Associations

• Federal Bar Association
• Federalist Society
• First Freedom Nevada

Prior Professional Positions

• Stewart Taylor & Morris, partner – Boise, Idaho, 2008-2015
• Marriage Law Foundation, president – Orem, Utah, 2004-2008
• Special Counsel to Utah’s Governor – Salt Lake City, Utah, 2001-2003
• Rex E. Lee Advocacy Program, BYU Law School, director – Provo, Utah, 1999-2001
• United States Attorney, District of Nevada – Las Vegas, Nevada, 1992-1993
• Wright & Stewart, partner – Las Vegas, Nevada, 1981-1991
• Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, associate – San Diego, California, 1978-1981
• Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, United States Supreme Court, law clerk – 1977-1978
• Ninth Circuit Judge J. Clifford Wallace, law clerk – San Diego, California, 1976-1977
• Brigham Young University Law Review, editor-in-chief – Provo, Utah, 1975-1976

Selected Publications

• Marriage, Fundamental Premises, and the California, Connecticut, and Iowa Supreme Courts, 2012 B.Y.U.L. REV. 193 (with Jacob Briggs and Julie Slater)
• Marriage Facts, 31 HARV. J.L. & PUB. POL’Y 313 (2008)
• Eliding in New York, 1 DUKE J. CONST. L. & PUB. POL’Y SIDEBAR 37 (2006)
• Genderless Marriage, Institutional Realities, and Judicial Elision, 1 DUKE J. CONST. L. & PUB. POL’Y 1 (2006)
• Judicial Redefinition of Marriage, 21 CANADIAN J. FAM. L. 11 (2004)
• Investigating Possible Bias: The American Legal Academy’s View of Religiously Affiliated Law Schools, 54 J. LEGAL EDUC. 136 (2004) (with Prof. Dennis Tolley)
• Compensatory Damages for Fraud in Nevada: A Proposed Approach, 53 INTER ALIA F7 (1988)
• Pleadings, Amendments to Pleadings and Supplemental Pleadings, chapter 6, NEVADA CIVIL PRACTICE MANUAL (J. Thompson ed. 1986)
• The Winters Doctrine as Federal Common Law, 10 NAT. RESOURCES J. 457 (1977) (with Robert Grow)
• HEW’s Regulation under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972: Ultra Vires Challenges, 1976 B.Y.U.L. REV. 133.