Meet the CJAU Team

Executive Director

Hayley Cousin, JD

Hayley Cousin has a passion for ensuring all Utahns can understand and access the civil legal system in a meaningful way. Her work in access to justice began at Timpanogos Legal Center, where she helped to design and then ran the Certified Advocate Partners Program, the first Regulatory Sandbox program to use nonlawyers to provide free legal services to Utahns. After three years of evaluating and improving the service model, she founded Community Justice Advocates of Utah to provide a central agency to oversee and support nonlawyers who are providing low complexity, high impact legal services to Utahns, with the goals of lowering barriers to entry to legal services provision, increasing support for nonlawyer providers and their agencies, and evaluating and improving programs and service models.

Hayley received her undergraduate in English language with minors in editing and business at Brigham Young University. She graduated with honors from the BYU Law School, and is a member of the Utah State Bar.
Board President

Jenny Hoppie, JD

Board Vice President

Laura Pennock, LPP

Laura Pennock is one of the first four Licensed Paralegal Practitioners admitted to practice in Utah. She was in solo practice in Family Law for five years and has since become a full time minister with Community of Christ. Although Laura has changed the focus of her day to day working life, she remains active in promoting the LPP as an effective measure to address access to justice in Utah. Laura is committed to the ideals of equality before the law and open access to the courts to defend their rights. She is honored to be on the board of CJAU as a way to continue to work to make legal services available to all, especially to those who are denied access because of means and other barriers.
Board Treasurer

Rick Hoffman, CPA

Richard (Rick) Hoffman is a Salt Lake Valley transplant from Texas. He is a licensed CPA in both Texas and Utah, Accredited in Business Valuation and has over thirty years of experience in public accounting and consulting. Rick has taught on the subject of damages for national associations as well as at the University of Utah. He has testified in State Court, Federal Court, Arbitrations, and acted as Special Master.
Rick moved to Utah in 1992 and worked for PriceWaterhouse Coopers LLP and LECG before co-founding a forensic accounting firm in 2008. He has since sold his firm and is a Managing Director at Marshall & Stevens, a national valuation and litigation firm. He has been primarily involved with calculating damages related to commercial litigation and has spent considerable time performing business valuations inside and outside of the litigation arena, with particular emphasis in the valuation of intellectual property.
His desire to assist in conflict resolution led him to begin serving on various judicial boards in 2005, which include the National Litigation Review Board, Online Dispute Resolution Committee(Utah State Courts), Utah State Bar, Judicial Performance Evaluation Committee, Business and Chancery Court Judicial Nomination Committee and most recently, as a Board Member for Community Justice Advocates of Utah.