Top Corporate Lawyers Near Me in Salt Lake City Area

Since 1992, I have practiced corporate/business law in some of the best large firms in the United States and gained valuable experience in every aspect of corporate/business/transactional law. I enjoy putting that experience to work for my clients to help them reach their business goals. I treat my clients as equals, and it's important to me that they are happy with the work I do for them, in terms of cost, quality and the whole experience. I give my clients more of what they like about working with lawyers and less of what they don't like. I'm a good listener and constantly looking for ways to improve what I have to offer. Please contact me now. You'll be glad you did.

Sean A. Monson is of counsel in the law firm of Bennett Tueller Johnson & Deere. His practice emphasis is real estate and title insurance. He has been lead counsel representing several businesses and individuals in real property transactions and litigation matters involving boundary, ownership and priority of interest disputes. His practice also includes employment counseling and litigation. He has represented several large and small Utah businesses in litigation matters involving claims of wrongful termination, Title VII, ADA, employment-related state law torts, covenants not to compete and labor disputes.. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Monson was an associate at the Salt Lake City law firm of Parsons, Behle & Latimer and a partner with the Salt Lake City law firm of Manning Curtis Bradshaw & Bednar LLC.

S. Robert Bradley is a member of the Durham Jones & Pinegar's Estate Planning and Business & Finance sections. Before entering the practice of law, he was a university professor of zoology for nine years. His practice focuses primarily on business planning, including acquisitions and other business transactions, structuring tax aspects of business transactions, formation of business entities, licensing, and distribution agreements, as well as sophisticated estate planning. Mr. Bradley maintains an “AV” rating with Martindale-Hubbell, which is the highest rating awarded to attorneys for professional competence and ethics.

Ryan is a partner in the firm’s litigation department where he has focused on construction law for over 20 years. Ryan is a trusted adviser and advocate for developers, contractors, suppliers and design professionals in commercial, residential and industrial construction. Ryan’s construction law experience allows him to expertly counsel with construction professionals as they navigate the situations unique to the industry. Ryan has repeatedly been voted by his peers as one of Utah’s “Legal Elite” in construction law, as reported in Utah Business magazine. He has also been recognized as one of the top-rated construction lawyers in the Mountain States Super Lawyers, an exclusive list of top-rated attorneys who are chosen after thorough evaluation of numerous criteria.

Russell K. Smith is a shareholder and chair of Durham Jones & Pinegar's Business & Finance Section. Mr. Smith represents private companies in a broad range of industries and sectors, including venture capital, life sciences, software, internet, real estate, manufacturing, retail, telecommunications and energy (including oil and gas).. Mr. Smith regularly advises start-up and emerging-growth companies from formation through liquidity event in matters including governance, debt and equity financing, equity incentive compensation, and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Smith also represents venture capital firms, strategic corporate investors, and angel investors in their investments in start-up companies. Many of his clients are partnership and LLCs for whom he provides sophisticated management, capital strategy, and partnership tax advice.. Mr. Smith has been directly involved with LLC and partnership legislation in California and Utah. Most recently, Mr. Smith played a prominent role drafting and helping to pass Utah’s version of the Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act. The Business Section of the Utah Bar Associate honored Mr. Smith as the 2012-2013 Distinguished Business Law Practitioner of the Year.

Paul T. Moxley is a shareholder in the Durham Jones & Pinegar's litigation section. Mr. Moxley has been engaged in the practice of law since 1973 and handles all sorts of complex matters including securities litigation, civil and criminal, products liability matters, intellectual property and a wide array of commercial litigation. Following law school, he was a law clerk to David Lewis who was Chief Judge of the Tenth Circuit for the United States Circuit Court.. Paul Moxley was “Distinguished Lawyer of the Year” by the Utah State Bar for 2009-2010.  Paul Moxley is rated “AV Preeminent” by Martindale-Hubbell, which is the highest rating awarded to attorneys for professional competence and ethics. He is a past President of the Utah State Bar, the National Conference of Bar Presidents and has served in the House of Delegates of the American Bar Association.

Paul Durham was named Salt Lake City “Lawyer of the Year” in Litigation – Real Estate for 2014 by U.S. News Media Group and Best Lawyers in America. Mr. Durham began practicing law in 1980 and founded Durham Jones & Pinegar in 1991. He has helped grow the firm from two lawyers in 1991 to more than 90 lawyers today. Mr. Durham is recognized nationally as a leading attorney in the areas of real estate law, corporate law and litigation. Mr. Durham is rated “AV Preeminent” by Martindale-Hubbell, which is the highest rating awarded to attorneys for professional competence and ethics.

Parker has extensive litigation experience and helps manage the litigation team at The Advocates. Raised in the Wasatch Front, Parker attended and graduated from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Parker then graduated from the University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law where he was a Board Member and the Executive Text Editor of the Utah Law Review.. Prior to joining The Advocates, Parker was a litigator at a preeminent national law firm for the better part of a decade, where he represented Fortune 500 companies and other clients involving business and employment disputes, breach of contract issues, fraud and related torts, property and construction disputes, and personal injury matters. He has been recognized by his peers for his efforts and named a “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers and Utah’s Legal Elite “Up & Comers” for several years.. When Parker is not at the office, he enjoys spending time with his wife, Alexandra, and their three children. He lives in Cottonwood Heights and enjoys skiing the “Greatest Snow on Earth.” Parker is an avid sports fan, particularly of college football. When Parker has time, he also enjoys golfing, boating, and most anything else under the sun.

N. Todd Leishman’s practice concentrates on corporate and business law with emphasis on representing sellers in sales of privately owned companies to financial and strategic buyers; acquirers in mergers and acquisitions; and companies in debt and equity financing transactions. Mr. Leishman also acts as an outside general legal advisor to emerging and established companies. Mr. Leishman frequently negotiates and drafts complex commercial contracts such as manufacturing, licensing, lending and distribution agreements. He also advises clients about governance issues in privately held entities, and he often works closely with the firm’s litigation department in connection with corporate-governance lawsuits.

My practice focuses on the resolution of complex civil litigation matters including personal injury, construction, insurance coverage analysis and bad faith litigation, product liability, professional liability, and transportation claims.. I am currently licensed to practice before the State and Federal courts in Utah and Arizona.

Mr. Taylor’s philosophy for practicing law is based on cost effective problem solving while utilizing his experience as a negotiator, litigation strategist, and successful courtroom trial attorney to achieve the most desirable outcome for his clients.

Mr. Rawson assists companies with financings, recapitalizations, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and other business transactions and agreements.  In addition, he assists early stage companies with formation, structure, strategic relationships, venture capital financings, and other financings.

Mr. Randall is the Chair of the Durham Jones & Pinegar's Environment, Energy and Resources Practice Group and practices in the Salt Lake City office.. Mr. Randall’s practice includes managing industrial facility siting, permitting, and compliance issues under federal, state and local environmental laws and regulations. He also regularly represents clients in matters involving Superfund liability, Clean Water Act permitting and compliance, wetlands permitting, worker health and safety, pipeline health and safety laws and regulations and environmental management programs. He has a sound working knowledge of energy law issues and intrastate and interstate public utility practice areas, including state PSCs and FERC. Mr. Randall has particular expertise in site investigation, remediation, and redevelopment, having assisted in the acquisition, management and redevelopment of numerous environmentally sensitive properties, including many NPL-listed Superfund sites.. Mr. Randall has been directly involved in the redevelopment of thousands of acres of properties that now support residential, industrial, commercial and recreational uses. He also has substantial experience in prosecuting and defending Superfund cost recovery and contribution matters, including the development of cost allocations involving complex, multi-party sites.. Mr. Randall’s practice also includes assisting regulated and non-regulated municipal and investor-owned utilities, regulated petroleum and natural gas pipelines, independent power producers with coal mining joint ventures, purchase and transportation of coal and other energy resources, management of coal combustion byproducts, transmission access, siting and rights-of-way acquisition, water rights and state and local taxation matters.. His experience includes work on significant operational-level issues for large municipal and investor-owned electric generators in Utah, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Montana. His work included coal mining joint venture issues, short and long term coal purchase and sales and transportation contracts (as well as dispute resolution), management of coal combustion byproducts, interconnection, transmission, and other operational-level environmental, utility and regulatory matters.. In addition to his full-service environmental practice, Mr. Randall has had tremendous opportunities to provide substantive transactional support for dozens of prominent energy sector transactions, some of which ranged into multiple billions of dollars of value.. Mr. Randall has a strong and active litigation background, starting with his trial-court level clerkship in federal court with Judge Larry M. Boyle of the United States District Court of Idaho.

Mr. Jones is a founder of Durham Jones & Pinegar and serves on the firm’s Board of Directors. His high-energy, intense representation of his clients is unsurpassed. Mr. Jones’s practice concentrates on corporate and securities matters, although he was a dynamic litigation attorney in earlier days. He regularly represents public and private companies in a broad range of matters, including:. Mr. Jones maintains an “AV” rating with Martindale/Hubbell, which is the highest rating awarded to attorneys for professional competence and ethics.

Mr. Donaldson’s practice is concentrated in a broad range of commercial litigation matters, including representing clients in state and federal courts, mediation and arbitration, and all levels of appeals. He has experience representing clients in technology, construction, real property, class action, securities, corporate, employment, healthcare, insurance, franchising, intellectual property, and a wide variety of contract matters. Mr. Donaldson regularly collaborates with attorneys in diverse practice areas to deliver comprehensive quality legal services to Firm clients.

Mr. Bagley works with the firm’s business transactions group. He advises clients on a wide variety of business law matters and assists companies with formation, structure, strategic relationships, venture capital financings, PIPE investments, technology licensing, mergers, acquisitions, and other business transactions. In addition, he counsels clients on various real estate issues, including real estate acquisitions, divestitures, leases and other transactions.

Kristin Marie Raffone Vazquez, Esq. is the President and CEO of Raffone Dessiné, a  legal services provider. Ms. Vazquez has over 16 years’ of comprehensive legal experience.  Ms. Vazquez has extensive experience in emerging growth companies, and in particular, mergers and acquisitions, business combinations and joint ventures. Ms. Vazquez has also engaged in business review and/or planning, financial review, private equity analysis and procurement, business planning, human resources, quality control policy and procedure, manufacturing process efficiency review, intellectual property strategization, government contract procurement and administration, and corporate governance. She has consulted and provided legal services for a variety of businesses including: nanotechnology companies, foodstuff manufacturers, government contractors, fashion houses, secondary market security issuers, student loan consolidation companies, nonprofit companies and service providers, to name a few.. Ms. Vazquez has licenses to practice in New York, Connecticut and Utah. She has been recognized as one of the Utah’s Legal Elite for her accomplishments in the field of Mergers and Acquisitions. Ms. Vazquez was also featured in Salt Lake Magazine’s Women to Watch feature for her business consulting and fashion accessories business “Raffone Design.”. Ms. Vazquez is a member of the Utah Bar; Utah Minority Bar Association; Utah Lawyers for the Arts; Sandy Chamber of Commerce and Utah Technology Council. Ms. Vazquez is also a certified business and executive coach.

Jeffrey Matson practices in the firm's estate and tax planning sections. Mr. Matson assists clients with various tax and estate planning matters, including wills, trusts, probate proceedings, tax controversies, and tax exempt organizations.. Mr. Matson also practices in the firm's business section where he provides counsel to individuals and businesses in a wide variety of business law matters and assists companies with formation, structure, asset protection, trademark registration, and contract drafting.

Jeffrey D. Eisenberg. Jeffrey D. Eisenberg, founding partner of Eisenberg, Cutt, Kendell & Olson, is a 1983 graduate of the University of Michigan Law School. Mr. Eisenberg has obtained seven figure recoveries for injured plaintiffs in more than two dozen cases, including jury verdicts of sixteen and seven million dollars. After spending nine years practicing at one of Salt Lake City's largest law firms, Mr. Eisenberg has spent the last sixteen years representing injury victims and their families in large and complex personal injury, malpractice, insurance bad faith and other tort cases. Mr. Eisenberg also occasionally accepts commercial injury cases on behalf of businesses injured by the acts of large corporations.. In addition to his trial practice, Mr. Eisenberg has maintained a commitment to teaching trial advocacy and related subjects to lawyers in Utah and elsewhere. He has served as Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Utah's S. J. Quinney College of Law. Working with the Utah Association for Justice (formerly Utah Trial Lawyer's Association), Mr. Eisenberg founded and has supervised a monthly seminar program for young lawyers, entitled Learn from the Pro's. In 2005, Mr. Eisenberg was asked by the American Bar Association to teach Trial Techniques at the 2005 TIPS National Trial Academy. Since 1993, Mr. Eisenberg has also served as co-chair and lecturer at The UAJ/ Utah Brain Injury Association, an annual brain injury litigation seminar. He has been an invited speaker at many other trial advocacy and litigation seminars in Utah and elsewhere. In 2008, Mr. Eisenberg delivered a presentation entitled Myth Math and Money, A Modern Approach to Proving Damages in Catastrophic Injury Cases at the midyear meeting of the American Association for Justice in San Juan, Puerto Rico.. Mr. Eisenberg served as Editor of the Utah Trial Journal from 1996 to 2001. A member of the Utah Association of Justice Board of Governors since 1991, Mr. Eisenberg received UTLA's Outstanding Service Award in 2000 for scholarship and was awarded a Life Member Award by UTLA in 2004. Mr. Eisenberg has been a member of the Board of Directors of Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Utah and he served as President of the Utah Brain Injury Association from 2000 to 2002 and was presented with the BIAU's Outstanding Service Award. In 2007, Mr. Eisenberg was nominated for Membership in the American Board of Trial Advocates and he received the Larry Trattler Award for his work on behalf of the Public Justice Foundation, a nonprofit public interest law firm.. A significant part of Mr. Eisenberg's practice is spent co-counseling complex cases with referral lawyers.

I started Common Law after leaving a large Salt Lake firm. My goal is to provide effective and efficient expertise in the resolution of tax and financial disputes. I have done my job when I have reduced the stress of dealing with the government and the legal system, and I have helped you find a resolution that works for you.. I’ve been practicing law for over twenty years. I have litigated numerous cases at city, county, and state tax agencies, at all of the IRS administrative levels, and at the trial court level in both the state and federal courts of Utah, courts in other states, and the United States Tax Court.. I also have substantial appellate court experience, including before the Utah Court of Appeals, the Utah Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, and the United States Tax Court.. Although my emphasis is tax, I have litigated cases in numerous commercial areas of law, including real estate disputes, insurance coverage disputes, corporate and contract disputes, and financial transaction disputes.. I am admitted to practice before all Utah State Courts, the U.S. District Court for Utah, the U.S. Tax Court, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U.S. Supreme Court. I earned an LLM in Tax from Georgetown University and my law degree from the University of Utah. I have been recognized in 2017-2021 as one of the Best Lawyers in America in the area of Commercial Litigation and Tax Law by Best Lawyers.. In my free time, I’m a telemark skier, a trail runner, and a dad with two kids and a Siamese cat.

I enjoy helping people who need quality and affordable legal representation. I enjoy spending time with my family and enjoy  coaching, football, baseball, basketball, flyfishing, and the outdoors.. I love the quote:. "Good, better, best, never let it rest, until your good is better and your better is best. "

I am a trial attorney.  I joined Henriksen & Henriksen in 2006, becoming a third generation Henriksen trial attorney at the firm. I routinely handle serious injury and death cases.  I have helped clients recover millions of dollars in compensation for their injuries.  I am not a billboard attorney.  I devote my personal attention to each client; my staff does the same.  I am a member of the American Association for Justice, which is a national organization of trial attorneys.  I am very involved in the Association, serving on several committees.  I also serve on the Board of Governors for the Utah Association for Justice. My experience allows me to routinely handle cases, big and small, in all of the courts throughout Utah. I have also successfully briefed and argued cases in front of the Utah Supreme Court and Court of Appeals.  As an advocate, when you retain me as your attorney, you can count on my dedication and personal attention to your case, whether big or small.  I have been recognized as an AV Preeminent - Peer Rated for Highest Level of Professional Excellence by Martindale-Hubbell and as a Mountain States Super Lawyers "Rising Star.". Admitted:. Utah Supreme CourtUnited States District Court for District of UtahUnited States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit. Recognition:. Mountain States Super Lawyer, Rising Star, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018AV Preeminent - Peer Rated for Highest Level of Professional Excellence by Martindale-Hubbell. Education:. William S. Boyd School of Law (J.D., cum laude)Nevada Law JournalNational Finalist, 3rd Place, American Bar Association Negotiation CompetitionMoot Court, Jessup International Moot Court Competition, Instructor, Family Law, Clark County Legal ServicesUniversity of Utah (B.A. Political Science, Russian Minor). Professional Associations:. Utah State BarUtah Association for JusticeAmerican Bar AssociationAmerican Association for Justice: Board of Governors, New Lawyers Division; Membership Oversight Committee;. Personal:. Rob enjoys spending time with his wife Danielle and keeping up with his four sons and daughter.. Language:. Russian

Heidi Goebel is licensed to practice law in 5 states. She is a founder and the managing partner of  the firm.   She has tried several major cases to verdict in state court and through arbitration and is skilled in handling large, complex litigation. She enjoys helping her clients find satisfying resolutions to their legal problems.

Gretta C. Spendlove serves as the Chair of the Durham Jones & Pinegar's Real Estate Section. Her practice focuses on real estate, corporate law, and business transactions. Her experience includes representation of buyers and sellers in purchasing, selling, leasing, and developing real estate; creating legal entities such as joint ventures, corporations, and limited liability companies; in buying and selling businesses; and handling intellectual property issues such as trademarks and copyrights.

Gregory N. Barrick is a shareholder of the firm, past director of the firm, and current chair of the firm’s Estate Planning Section. Mr. Barrick represents clients with respect to family wealth, estate, and asset preservation planning, probate and estate administration matters, charitable giving, and sophisticated business and estate tax planning matters.