Attorney Bios

Rebecca Long Okura

Managing Attorney

Rebecca is a graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center. While living in Washington D.C. Rebecca worked on a variety of projects: contract litigation, tobacco litigation, criminal litigation, real estate law, employment law, taxes and asset protection, and mergers and acquisitions. She held legal positions with The Nature Conservancy, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the law firms of Silver Freedman & Taft LLP, and Krooth & Altman LLP. She was a summer associate at Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis in Philadelphia. Also, during law school Rebecca represented juvenile criminal defendants as part of Georgetown’s clinic program.

After falling in love with mountains while taking a semester of law school classes in Innsbruck Austria, Rebecca toured the United States looking for a home that had natural beauty and did not require an hour and a half commute. The first day she was in Salt Lake City, she decided that this was her new home.

Rebecca graduated from law school in 2000 and immediately moved to Utah and began to practice law here. She has focused on Family Law and other litigation, including business and contractual disputes. In December 2004, Rebecca left a medium-sized family law firm to create her own firm which now has five lawyers, three paralegals and two support staff employees. Rebecca is a Utah State Court Rostered domestics mediator and also has been an adjunct legal and political science professor.

Katie McLain

Associate Attorney

Before joining Long Okura, Katie specialized in estate planning, business, employment and contract law working as both an associate attorney and in-house counsel for firms located in Utah and Salt Lake Counties. 

Katie received an undergraduate degree with honors in Environmental Health, Science and Policy from the University of California, Irvine and a law degree from the S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah. She is licensed to practice law in Utah in both the state and federal courts.

Katie is originally from Utah and returned to Salt Lake in 2005, in part, because of the proximity to the mountains where she can often be found trail running, mountain biking, backcountry skiing and rock climbing in her free time.

Alexis Whelan

Associate Attorney

Alexis is a graduate of Vermont Law School. Originally from Toronto, Canada, Alexis received an undergraduate degree with honors in Environmental Science from the University of Toronto. While living in Vermont, Alexis worked as a remote legal intern with the Urban Innocence Project in New York on criminal defense litigation matters, and worked as a remote family law intern with a private practice, Osadet Law, in Toronto. During law school, Alexis also worked as a student clinician for the South Royalton Legal Clinic, primarily focusing on family law matters.

After months of searching for a post-graduate opportunity, Alexis found that Long Okura checked all of her boxes, and without having ever visited Utah, she decided that Salt Lake City would be her next home.

Kate Menlove

Associate Attorney

Kate grew up enjoying the mountains and lakes of Utah, with favorite vacation spots in Moab and Lake Powell. After completing her undergraduate degree at Brigham Young University, she moved to Portland, Oregon to work in finance in wealth management. Kate wanted to be in a career focused on helping others, so she decided to switch careers to law. Kate graduated from the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law and is happy to be back in her home state.

Kate previously worked as an intern in criminal law before discovering her love for family law and estate planning. She frequently volunteers with the Pro Bono Initiative family law and estate planning clinics. Kate can often be found skiing, on snow or on water, reading a fantasy novel, or going to the Megaplex movie theater.