Family Law

• Guardianship
  Matt also has significant experience in assisting families resolve difficult problems arising from the aging or death of a loved one, including disputes over guardianships, conservatorships, trusts, and family estates.

Criminal Law

• Criminal Defense
• Wrongful Death
  Clients have trusted Blake in high-stakes commercial litigation for over 35 years. Blake works closely with clients to ensure that their goals are achieved, whether those require a court trial, arbitration, mediation, bankruptcy or negotiation. Blake is a seasoned trial lawyer, having conducted numerous jury and bench trials before federal, state and tribal courts. He has also participated as lead counsel in several large regulatory hearings before public service commissions. He has successfully represented businesses in bet-the-company cases; reorganized struggling companies, both in bankruptcy and out of court restructures; defended companies from large exposure cases, such as wrongful death; and prosecuted and defended a wide variety of business disputes and torts, including contract, professional liability, trade secrets, real estate, and inter-company disputes.
• Embezzlement

Business and Corporate Law

• Business Formation
  Grant maintains a diverse legal practice, providing expertise in business formation and strategic planning, drafting construction and real estate contracts, and handling construction lien foreclosures. He also facilitates real estate transactions, manages probate matters and disputes, and resolves a broad spectrum of civil disputes.
• Business Disputes
  Acted as trial counsel in an arbitration resulting in a $1.3 million fraud judgment and the removal of defendant’s ownership interests in start-up manufacturing company. The arbitration award, which included punitive damages and attorneys’ fees, was later affirmed by the district court and the Utah Court of Appeals.
• Trade Secrets
• Intellectual Property

Employment Law

• Non-compete Agreement

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
  Deborah maintains a diverse commercial and civil litigation practice. Since 2008, she has successfully represented individuals and companies in various complex matters, including commercial bankruptcy, contract interpretation, fraud, intellectual property, trademark infringement, employee covenants, securities, and real estate matters, shareholder/member disputes, and guardianship proceedings. More recently, Deborah has enjoyed representing Court-appointed receivers charged with overseeing commercial receivership estates. She also serves as President of the firm.
• Premises Liability
  Deborah also has extensive tort litigation experience, both in district court and arbitration proceedings, defending care center facilities against wrongful death claims, and providing general insurance defense regarding automobile and premises liability.
• Construction Litigation
  Matt has a wide range of experience and expertise assisting clients with real property litigation and complex commercial disputes. He is well versed in handling the tricky issues real property owners face in seeking to exercise their rights while facing opposition from local governments, neighbors, landlords, tenants, or co-owners. He also handles commercial cases including partnership disputes, contract breaches, construction defects, and fraud.
• Real Estate Transactions
  “ Steve Dougherty has been our attorney for over 30 years, successfully representing our family in many real estate transactions, some of which were quite complicated. Besides his role as advisor, he has also become our trusted friend. I can’t think of a better person to care for our needs.
• Eminent Domain

Health Law

• Personal Injury
  Finally, Matt maintains a personal injury practice and has successfully resolved multiple high-dollar injury cases for both plaintiffs and defendants.
• Medical Malpractice
  Jake is a Shareholder at Anderson & Karrenberg, and an experienced litigator and trial attorney. He has successfully represented clients—from large international corporations to individuals—in administrative, arbitration, and state and federal court proceedings. He has assisted clients across a variety of industries and practice areas, including construction, commercial and residential real estate, contract matters, partnership and LLC disputes, professional liability, medical malpractice, insurance coverage, employment law, trade secret misappropriation, trademark, fraud, and other general business matters.
• Auto Accidents
• Dog Bites
  Jake began his legal career working on high-value, complex personal injury lawsuits and has experience with all types of injury claims, including automobile, truck, and motorcycle accidents; product liability; premise liability; dog bites; dram shop; medical malpractice; negligence; wrongful death; and other types of personal injury lawsuits. He then pivoted and took a position where he actively assisted business and real estate clients navigate complicated legal issues and resolve disputes. Most recently, Jake enjoyed working as a medical malpractice insurance defense attorney, representing and defending health care providers—both individual practitioners and healthcare facilities—across Utah in administrative proceedings, licensing issues, and medical malpractice lawsuits.

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  Curtis has a diverse transactional practice, including sophisticated financing, merger and acquisition, and real estate transactions, as well as business formations, real estate contracts, mineral acquisition and management agreements, manufacturing and distribution agreements, and estate planning.
• Probate

Finance Law

• Bankruptcy
  In restructuring matters, Blake has represented debtors, debtors-in-possession, creditors, trustees and creditor committees in Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases. He has also been engaged in a number of large out-of-court corporate restructures and dissolutions.
• Foreclosure