FIRM MANAGEMENT

• Member, Board of Directors (1991-present)
• President/CEO (1991-2007)
• General Counsel (2000-present)

ADMITTED TO PRACTICE

• Utah
• Idaho
• All State and Federal Courts in Utah and Idaho
• United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
• United States Supreme Court

INDUSTRIES

• Technology
• Real Estate
• Restaurants/Hospitality
• Sand and Gravel

ADDITIONAL LANGUAGES

• Danish

PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC ACTIVITIES

• Member, Real Estate and Business Law Sections, Utah State Bar
• Adjunct Professor, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, Law Practice Management course (2008-present)
• Board of Trustees, S. J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah (2002-present); Vice President (2005-2006); President-elect (2006-2007); President (2007-2009)
• Chair, Salt Lake City Managing Attorneys Association (2005-2006)
• Listed as a "Super Lawyer" in Real Estate in Mountain States Super Lawyers
• Named in Utah Business magazine's "Legal Elite"
• Listed in Chambers USA under Corporate/Mergers and Acquisitions
• Member, Congress of Fellows, Center for International Legal Studies, Salzburg, Austria (2004-present)
• Pioneer Theatre Company, Vice Chair (2009-2010), Development Chair and Member, Executive Committee (2008-present); Member, Artist Housing Governing Board (2008-present); Member, Budget Committee (2004-2009); Member, Board of Trustees (2003-present)
• Featured in Forbes magazine (June 2004)
• "Leading Attorney--Business Law," KSL-TV Legal Resource Center (2003)
• Member, Rotary, Salt Lake Club (2002-present)
• Disciplinary Panel Judge, Utah State Bar (1989-1991)
• Member, Utah Bar Governance Committee (1988-1990)
• President, Young Lawyers Section, Utah State Bar (1986-1987) (at that time, comprising 50% of the bar membership)
• Recipient, Award of Achievement, ABA Young Lawyers Division for Outstanding Activities (1986-1987)
• Ex Officio Member, Utah State Bar Commission (1986-1987)
• Barrister, American Inns of Court II, VII (1981-1985)

PRESENTATIONS

• Lecturer on real estate and law firm management topics

PRIOR PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Law Clerk, Honorable Aldon J. Anderson, Chief Judge U.S. District Court for the District of Utah (1980-1981)

REPRESENTATIVE CASES/DEALS

• Morgan v. Quailbrook Condominium Co., 704 P.2d 573 (Utah 1985) (nuisance claim arising from real estate development)
• Salt Lake City v. Cahoon and Maxfield Irrigation Co., 879 P.2d 248 (Utah 1994) (stock in a mutual irrigation company as real property)
• Jane L. et al., v. Norman H. Bangerter as Governor of the State of Utah, 828 F. Supp. 1544 (D. Utah 1993); 61 F.3d 1505 (10th Cir. 1995) (defense of governorregarding utah Abortion Statute)
• Republic Group, Inc. v. Won-Door Corp., 883 P.2d 285 (Utah App. 1995) (contract claim for broker's fee in private placement of corporate stock)
• C & Y Corp. v. General Biometrics, Inc., 896 P.2d 47 (Utah App. 1995) (contract formation; breach of fiduciary duty)
• In Re General Determination of Rights to Use All Water Within Drainage Area of Utah Lake and Jordan River in Utah, Salt Lake, Davis, Wasatch, San Pete and Juab Counties in Utah, 982 P.2d 65 (Utah 1999) (water rights determination)
• Save Our Schools, et al., v. Board of Educaiton of Salt Lake City, 122 P.3d 611 (Utah 2005) (school closure)

RECENT NEWS

• Thirty-two DJP Attorneys Included on Utah Business Magazine's 2010 List of "Utah's Legal Elite"

• Twenty-four DJP Attorneys Are Listed in the 2009 Edition of Mt. States Super Lawyers Magazine
  

• Thirty-one DJP Attorneys Included on Utah Business Magazine’s 2009 List of “Utah’s Legal Elite”