In 1974, Scott and Norma Matheson, together with J. Thomas and Kay Greene Created Utah Law Related Education to provide law-related and citizenship education for Utah's youth and communities through interactive educational experiences. Since that time, LRE has served all of Utah's 40 school districts school districts in grades kindergarten through twelve and many of its communities.  In 1989, Law-Related Education Project, Inc. was incorporated as a permanent organizational home for law-related education programs in Utah.

Over the years, Utah LRE has trained thousands of students, educators, community representatives, attorneys, court employees, juvenile justice professionals, and other legal professionals through a host of institutes, seminars, courses, and programs, such as the Mock Trial Competition, Salt Lake Peer Court Program elementary and secondary Mentor/Dialogue on Democracy Programs, Teaching Law in the High Schools Seminar at the S. J. Quinney College of Law, Court Tour Programs, Youth Summits, We the People . . . The Citizen and the Constitution Program, We the People . . . Project Citizen, Conflict Management Programs, Mock Mediation Showcases, and Juvenile Justice Programs.