Attorney Skye Lazaro Wikipedia, Bio, Age, Married, Children, Net Worth, Nationality, Height, Famous Cases, Kouri Richins
Skye Lazaro Biography – Skye Lazaro Wiki
Skye Lazaro is an American criminal defense attorney, legal analyst and chair of Ray Quinney & Nebeker’s Criminal Defense Group. She chairs the firm’s white collar, criminal defense & government investigations, cannabis law groups and sports law group.
Skye regularly provides legal analysis and commentary on breaking news stories, trial proceedings, celebrity scandals, and other legal issues on KUTV2, CBS and some of the most popular true crime podcasts and documentaries. She occasionally appears as a guest co-host on KTalk AM1640 “Talk with Ted – A Show About Nothing” where she discusses a variety of legal concepts and current events.
Skye is a member of the Board for the Rocky Mountain Innocence Center, and served on the Utah Sentencing Commission from 2022-2024 developing sentencing guidelines and making recommendations to all three branches of government regarding the sentencing and release of individuals committing criminal and juvenile offenses.
Skye was included on the list of Top 40 Under 40 by the National Trial Lawyers Association (2018-2021). She was recognized in 2017 by Attorney at Law Magazine as an Attorney to Watch and was voted by her peers throughout the state as one of Utah’s “Legal Elite”, as published in Utah Business Magazine (2018- 2021). Skye was selected for inclusion in Mountain States Super Lawyers (2020-2021) as a “Rising Star” in the category of Criminal Defense.
Skye graduated with a B.A in Political Science and Government and an M.B.A from the University of Montana. She received her J.D. from the University of Montana School of Law in December 2008.
Skye Lazaro Age
Attorney Skye Lazaro was born in 1983 in Montana. She is currently in her 40s. She grew up with her two siblings (brother and sister) on their parent’s horse and cattle ranch in Montana.
Famous Cases
Skye has earned a reputation as a tough and aggressive attorney with extensive trial experience, representing clients in over one hundred jury trials throughout her career- including some of the region and country’s most complex and high-profile criminal cases.
She was featured on Law & Crime Sidebar with host Jesse Weber to discuss the latest development in the Ruby Franke story. Ruby Franke’s husband, Kevin Franke, is speaking out after his wife (along with Jodi Hildebrandt) was sent to prison for abusing their children.
Skye Lazaro Husband
After meeting and marrying her husband, a coach at the University of Montana, the family moved to Utah when he was offered a coaching position with the University of Utah basketball team, Attorney At Law Magazine (AALM) reported.
Skye Lazaro Children
Skye Lazaro has a son, Garrett Lazaro, born in January 2002. He is a horse trainer and a National Reining Horse Association (NRHA) professional. He is the head trainer at Lazaro performance horses, specializing in training and showing rope horses.
Skye became a mother in her sophomore year of college, and continued her education “pretty much as a single parent.”.
“You just do it,” she told AALM. “It’s not something I really thought about. I just knew I wanted to be the best parent I could be and, at least to me, that included completing my education so that I could both provide for him as well as set a good example.”
“Today, my son and I are very close, and he has a very strong work ethic and a healthy respect for women, so I think it all worked out pretty well.”
Skye Lazaro Net Worth
Skye Lazaro is a shareholder of Ray Quinney & Nebeker (RQN). The law firm’s Estate and Trust Planning Practice Group earned the highest possible ranking – Band 1 – in Private Wealth Law by the prestigious Chambers USA High Net Worth 2025 Guide. The distinction made RQN one of only two Utah law firms to achieve a Band 1 ranking in private wealth law from Chambers and Partners.
Nationality
She is of American nationality.
Skye Lazaro Height
Attorney Skye Lazaro stands at a height of 5’9″ (5 feet 9 inches/1.75 m).
