Ms. Baar focuses her practice on employment counseling, litigation, training and mediation. She is an AV rated attorney in the labor and employment group at Holland & Hart's Salt Lake City office. Prior to joining Holland & Hart, she was a partner in a management employment law firm in Utah. She defends employment lawsuits, provides workforce training, advises employers on human resource and employment law issues, mediates and arbitrates employment law disputes, coaches management, and conducts employment investigations. She is a frequent speaker on avoiding employment claims and good management practices.

Ms. Baar was an employment lawyer for almost twenty years at Parsons Behle & Latimer in Salt Lake City. She clerked for Justice Christine Durham of the Utah Supreme Court in 1983. Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business has recognized Ms. Baar as a leading management employment lawyer since 2003. She was named Utah State Bar Employment Lawyer of the Year in 1999, and has been included in Best Lawyers in America, Employment Law, since 1994, and in Super Lawyers magazine-Corporate Counsel Edition. Utah Business has listed her among the "Top 100 Legal Elite" since 2004.

Ms. Baar works frequently as a mediator and arbitrator in employment disputes. She is a member of the U.S. District Court Roster of Mediators and Arbitrators and a member of Utah Council on Conflict Resolution. She completed the Harvard Law School Negotiation Workshop in June, 2005.

Member, American Bar Association
- Labor and Employment Law Section
- Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution

Member, Utah State Bar
- Employment Law Section
- Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee
- Ethics & Discipline Committee, 2001-2007

Member, Board of Directors of Utah Bar Foundation

S. J. Quinney College of Law Alumni Board, 2002-2005

Board of Directors of Utah Nonprofits Association, 2001-2003

President of Legal Aid Society, 1999

State of Utah Labor Commission Antidiscrimination Advisory Council, 1998-2003

Sutherland Inn of Court, 1991-1998

Utah Task Force on Gender and Justice, 1989-1991

Utah Court Decides Landman is Employee, Not Independent Contractor, Holland & Hart News Update with Steve Gutierrez, November 2008.

Harassment Case Proceeds Despite Failure to Report,HR MAGAZINE, June 2005

Resolution Conferences Conducted by the Utah Anti-Discrimination Division: The Elements of a Successful Administrative Mediation Program; Co-Author Michael A. Zody, University of Utah College of Law, JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY LAW Vol. 21, No. 1, 1995