Criminal Law

• Criminal Defense
  RQN has a long and vibrant history in Salt Lake City. Founded in 1940 by Paul H. Ray, S. Joseph Quinney, and A. Hulme Nebeker, our firm’s early years forged our commitment to excellence. Today, RQN is a recognized leader among Utah law firms, with acknowledged expertise in specialties ranging from litigation to tax, automobile dealer law to winter sports, environmental and natural resources to white-collar criminal defense, securities litigation, and many others. At the same time, the firm is also widely known for its tradition of unity.
• Fraud

Business and Corporate Law

• Corporate Law
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Business Formation
• Business Disputes
  David Leigh is a member of the Firm’s Banking and Financial Institutions Section. His practice is concentrated in bankruptcy, creditors’ rights, and civil/commercial litigation. Mr. Leigh represents various parties-including secured creditors, unsecured creditors, official committees of unsecured creditors, and trustees-in chapter 7, 11, 12, and 13 bankruptcy cases. Mr. Leigh also represents plaintiffs and defendants in general commercial litigation matters, including out-of-bankruptcy workouts, collection litigation, debt restructuring, contract disputes, real and personal property liens and lien disputes, business torts, and professional negligence disputes. Mr. Leigh currently serves as President of the Utah Bankruptcy Lawyers Forum.
• Trade Secrets
• Intellectual Property
• Unfair Competition
  Our first article in this series involves the NLRB’s attempts to curtail the use by employers of covenants not to compete and employee non-solicitation agreements. Many of our clients use so-called “non-compete†agreements to temporarily restrict competitive acts of a departing employee to protect the client’s business from what can be unfair competition. However, the General Counsel for the NRLB, Jennifer Abruzzo, announced last year that non-compete agreements violate Section 8 of the National Labor Relations Act because they “chill†employees from taking key concerted actions to secure better working conditions, such as threatening (or carrying out a threat) to resign as leverage to demand better employee working conditions.
• Antitrust

Employment Law

• Employment Contract
  In short, you can have negative opinions about unionization – you can (with restrictions) express those opinions to your employees. However, you cannot take adverse action against an employee or group of employees because of their opinions or union actions. You may (again, with restrictions) take adverse action against an employee for unrelated actions, such as a breach of their employment contract or employer policies.
• Employment Litigation
  Scott A. Hagen is the Chair of the Firm’s Healthcare Law Section and former Chair of the Employment and Labor Section. His practice includes labor relations, employment litigation, employee benefits (ERISA) litigation, and representation of clients before administrative agencies. Mr. Hagen has represented management in collective bargaining, labor arbitrations, unfair labor practice charges, representation elections, collective bargaining, state court injunctions regarding improper picketing, and hybrid lawsuits alleging breach of a collective bargaining agreement and breach of the fair duty of representation.
• Non-compete Agreement
  Whether or not the NLRB will be successful in curtailing the use of non-compete agreements by employers remains to be seen. However, all employers should be aware that the NLRB is on the lookout for particularly onerous agreements and has already shown a willingness to enforce its position against employers.

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
• Construction Litigation
• Real Estate Transactions
• Land Use and Zoning

Health Law

• Personal Injury

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  The Ray Quinney & Nebeker Tax, Trusts & Estate Planning Group is pleased to announce their annual tax and business seminar.
• Wills
• Trusts

Finance Law

• Bankruptcy
• Tax Law