Dylan Lawter

Tell us about your teaching experience prior to law school.  

After graduating from BYU, I taught fifth and sixth grade in Utah County. While there, I directed the school choir and taught several kids how to beatbox. I also enjoyed going out to recess every day to play basketball, kickball, and four square. I love working with kids, which is why I still volunteer with Kids’ Court School at Boyd and teach music to children aged three to eleven at my church. 

You are the president of Boyd's J. Reuben Clark Society. What has the group been up to this year?

Our weekly discussions give us the opportunity to strengthen each other in our personal religious convictions, so we can better serve the community and become moral, ethical lawyers. This year, our non-legal community service has been FamilySearch Indexing, which allows people to access their family histories around the world. 

Having now entered law school's second half, what was the highlight of the first half?

The highlight of the first half of law school was definitely being in Professor John White’s Torts class. Never before have I felt more compelled to prepare for class and worked so hard to learn something. (Just don’t look at my grade.) 

Train or plane? 

Plane! As a kid, my family and I would go watch the Thunderbirds fly above Nellis Air Force Base. I loved watching the jets do flips and turns and leave trails behind them as they sped through the air. And I remember my first time as a passenger on a plane because it didn’t happen until I was eighteen. Anyway, plane, hands down (sorry, Thomas).