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

• 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 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
• Antitrust
  Tom began his legal career as an associate in the firm of O’Melveny & Myers in the litigation department in the Los Angeles and Newport Beach offices. He later returned to Salt Lake City, where he became a founding member of Anderson & Karrenberg, concentrating his litigation and trial practice on complex commercial litigation involving securities law, antitrust law, business contract disputes, construction cases, employment law, natural resources-related litigation, and professional liability disputes.

Employment Law

• Non-compete Agreement

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
  Combining sound strategy and zealous advocacy with a healthy dose of pragmatism, Heather has consistently achieved creative, cost-effective solutions for her clients. She has successfully represented both individuals and businesses in complex cases, including contract, trade secret, copyright infringement, and real estate disputes, professional liability matters, shareholder derivative lawsuits, and the prosecution and defense of all manner of business torts in both state and federal court. Heather also has served as local counsel for numerous out-of-state attorneys and their clients, and as co- and liaison plaintiffs’ counsel in national class action litigation.
• 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.

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 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.
• Auto Accidents
• Dog Bites

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.

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