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Rita Cornish is a member of the firm's commercial litigation group. Before joining Parr Waddoups, Ms. Cornish clerked for the Honorable Carolyn B. McHugh on the Utah Court of Appeals. She currently serves as the Traynor Fellow at the University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law, where she administers the intramural appellate advocacy competition. In addition to her law degree, Ms. Cornish holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Utah.

  PUBLICATIONS

• Case Note, "Savage v. Utah Youth Village:
• Recognizing a Novel Cause of Action for Negligent Placement of a Child in Foster Care," 8 Journal of Law & Family Studies 177, 2006.
• Development, "Code Provision Empowering Board of Parole and Pardons to Issue Retaking Warrants Held Constitutional," 2005 Utah Law Review 253, 2005.
• Co-author, "Lethal Mutations in the Isoprenoid Pathway of Salmonella Enterica," 188 Journal of Bacteriology 1444, 2006.
• Co-author, "Identification of an Archeal Type II Isopentenyl Diphosphate Isomerase in Methanobacter Thermautotrophicus," 186 Journal of Bacteriology 1822, 2004.
• Co-author, "The Sorbitol Phosphotransferase System is Responsible for Transport of 2-C-Methyl-D-Erythritol Into Salmonella Enterica Serovar Typhimurium," 186 Journal of Bacteriology 473, 2004.