Schatz, Anderson, & Associates

Steve Anderson is a Utah criminal defense attorney who received his BA in Criminal Justice from Weber State University in 1996 and his JD from Western Michigan University Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan, in 1999. Steve has been in private law practice for over a decade, and his practice focuses entirely on Utah criminal defense and DUI defense. In the past ten years, he has successfully handled over 1000 criminal defense and DUI cases—from simple misdemeanors such as drug possession and domestic violence to serious felonies such as aggravated assault, auto theft, drug distribution, robbery, and sex offenses. Steve Anderson is a proud member of the Utah State Bar, Salt Lake County Bar, Utah Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and the National College of DUI Defense, and he has never received a bar complaint. To further his knowledge of DUIs and police procedure, Steve has completed the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) student and instructor courses for the Standard Field Sobriety Test (SFST). He has also completed the Advanced Roadside Impaired Driving Enforcement (ARIDE) Course that many officers take. Steve is well known in the legal community as a compassionate yet aggressive Utah criminal defense attorney who truly puts his client’s interests first. Steve Anderson is highly knowledgeable and experienced in both DUI and criminal defense and has navigated just about every kind of criminal case. A quiet but heart-felt people person, he’s confident but not showy. You’ll never hear it from his lips, but he has been honored and praised by his colleagues. He’s excellent at what he does, which is protect the rights of citizens accused of crimes in Utah.