Attorney Profiles

Sterling Rex Lewis, commonly known as "Rex", helped establish the law firm of Howard and Lewis in 1950, which in 1973 became Howard, Lewis & Petersen. It is today the oldest and largest law firm in Utah County.

Rex's educational credentials are amazing for a boy from the small city of Toppenish Washington, that even today still bills itself as the city "Where the West Still Lives!" Rex graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles, went on to Harvard Graduate School of Business and Brigham Young University (B.S., 1944); and received his J.D. in 1949 from Stanford University. Rex was Phi Delta Phi. Over the course of his career, Rex served as Assistant District Attorney, Fourth Judicial District, Utah, 1949-1951 and Special Assistant Attorney General for Condemnation, 1966-1970. From 1967 to 1969 our very own Rex Lewis went to Washington, D.C., to serve as General Counsel for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Rex is or has been a member of the following organizations: Utah County, Federal and American Bar Associations; Utah State Bar, The State Bar of California; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America; Utah Trial Lawyers Association; American Board of Trial Advocates (President of the Utah Chapter, 1982, National Secretary, 1985-89); Utah Supreme Court Advisory Committee on the Rules of Appellate Procedure, 1987-1991. He was admitted to the Utah and California Bars in 1949, and to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1968.

In 1992, Rex "retired" from the formal practice of law; However, he still has an office in our firm and has stayed on in an "Of Counsel" capacity. His legal insights into banking, real estate and business law are still an invaluable asset to our firm.