Craig Johnson Law

Craig Johnson Law is a criminal defense lawyer in Springville, Utah, serving clients throughout Utah County. The firm represents defendants in all criminal cases, including DUI, child abuse, robbery, child molestation, domestic violence homicide, burglary, rape, counterfeit currency, child pornography, and weapons offenses. Craig Johnson offers a free consultation to assess each situation, then provides individually tailored advice and counsel after a thorough review of the details. He brings extensive trial experience to the practice, including more than 60 felony jury trials across a wide spectrum of cases.

Craig Johnson graduated from Brigham Young University in 2000 with a BS in Business Finance and from BYU Law School in 2004. After clerking for several Fourth District Utah judges for a year, he prosecuted for 15 years, two with the Weber County Attorney's Office and 13 with the Utah County Attorney's Office, before opening his own private criminal defense firm. He regularly trains police officers and detectives on criminal procedure and case law updates. In 2012, he spearheaded Utah's Civil Commitment Law change, which now takes sex offender recidivism into account as a relevant risk factor, and he has drafted and testified about 10 additional legislative bills to improve the criminal justice system over the past decade.

Craig Johnson has served as a Provo Utah School District Attendance Court Magistrate, spent six years on the Utah Standing Committee on Court Interpreters, and has graded bar exams for 13 years. He currently serves on the Utah Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Rules of Criminal Procedure, the Utah State BCI eWarrant Board, and the Utah State Advisory Board on Children's Justice.

The firm charges a flat rate up front rather than hourly rates, so clients are not surprised with additional charges later. When police reports and other evidence arrive, Craig sits down at the office to discuss the strength of the evidence, the client's goals, and the pros and cons of various options. He creates a unique recipe of classes and treatments for clients to proactively complete before the firm approaches the prosecutor for a favorable plea offer, or asks for an outright dismissal. The firm also works to minimize the number of court hearings a client attends; 90 percent of Craig's clients' cases are resolved on or before their second court hearings.

Craig Johnson Law holds a rating of 4.90 from the customers who have reviewed it. With more than 60 felony jury trials behind him and a career spent both prosecuting and defending criminal cases in Utah County, Craig Johnson brings courtroom experience on both sides of a case to clients facing charges in Springville and the surrounding area.