Nathan A. Crane

Nathan is a criminal defense lawyer who primarily represents individuals and companies accused of criminal activity.  He has successfully defended individuals charged in both state and federal court for many offenses including theft and fraud charges, rape and sexual assault, tax and securities fraud, drug offenses, and other serious and complex felonies.

Most notably Nathan aggressively represents adults and juvenile clients responding to search warrants, government investigative demands, summonses, service of subpoenas, and in trial.

Nathan is also experienced in working on matters involving cryptocurrency and the blockchain as well as representing student athletes on variance, transfers and edibility issues where he has presented before local school boards, addressed UHSAA denials, and will assist in guiding parents through the process from start to finish.

Before private practice, Nathan served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the District of Nevada and a Deputy District Attorney in Clark County, Nevada where he prosecuted more than 1,000 felony cases (including white-collar, fraud, sex crimes, and violent crime).  This experience has given Nathan an exceptional perspective in defending his clients.

A unique area of Nathan’s practice involves representing residential treatment facilities including assisted living and hospice care centers in Utah and Nevada.  This work includes conducting internal investigations, assisting the centers’ leadership and staff on how best to manage difficult residents, and determining when to involve local law enforcement (and then coordinate involving them).  He also assists the centers in responding to subpoenas, and when needed, serves as a media spokesperson for all media inquiries relating to investigations and accusations.

Nathan appears regularly in court and has conducted multiple felony jury trials and numerous misdemeanor trials.  He has handled cases and appeared in courtrooms across the country including Utah, Arizona, California, Florida, Idaho, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.  Nathan has also argued criminal appeals before the Nevada Supreme Court and the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Nathan also applies his wide-ranging courtroom experience to the firm’s SnowTrial Consulting work.  This highly unique service, provided together with four other SC&M trial partners, offers the full range of comprehensive trial preparation and strategic trial consulting to corporations and other law firms nationwide (in civil and criminal cases).

Additionally, Nathan represents victims of crimes including individuals seeking protective orders, and those involved in civil stalking injunctions.

Nathan is an adjunct associate professor at the University of Utah School of Law, where he teaches the white-collar crime class. He serves on the executive committee of the Utah Chapter of the Federal Bar Association and co-chairs the FBA’s annual Criminal Law Seminar.

His experience in the area of federal criminal law led him to testify as an expert witness in a case before the Central Criminal Court in Dublin, Ireland.  He is a member of the Federal Criminal Justice Act Panel and is often appointed to defend indigent defendants in federal criminal court.  He is a member of the American Society of Trial Consultants.  Nathan has been a legal commentator on KSL Radio’s “The Night Side Project.”  Nathan has been included on the list of The Best Lawyers in America in Criminal Defense: White-Collar, has been recognized in Mountain States Super Lawyers in the category of criminal defense, and has been voted by his peers as one of Utah’s “Legal Elite.”