Jonathan R. Schofield

Mr. Schofield is a seasoned litigator with a broad base of litigation experience. He has represented commercial parties in business, contract, insurance, employment, intellectual property, real-estate, bankruptcy, and multi-level marketing disputes. He also has represented plaintiffs in mass tort, wrongful death, and serious personal injury matters.

Mr. Schofield focuses on helping his clients resolve their disputes and obtain compensation for their damages, finding creative solutions throughout the litigation process. In so doing, he has recovered millions of dollars for clients injured in trucking, automobile, bicycle, and motorcycle accidents. Mr. Schofield is also a leading expert in representing individuals who have been harmed by fires. In addition to recovering hundreds of millions of dollars from utility companies in large wildfire cases, he has recovered millions of dollars on behalf of individual homeowners and tenants who have suffered damages as result of fires caused by negligent utility work, fires started on negligently maintained properties, and fires started in apartment complexes.

Mr. Schofield has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in state and federal courts and has successfully tried cases in Utah and California.

Notable representations include the following:

• Represented hundreds of the victims of the 2007 San Diego Wildfires who lost their homes and businesses in the fires, recovering over $134 million from San Diego Gas & Electric and other defendants on behalf of our clients and personally negotiating and/or mediating over 100 individual cases;
• Represented hundreds of the victims of the 2012 Wood Hollow Wildfire in Central Utah (which destroyed dozens of homes, recreational properties, agricultural businesses, and even killed one person), recovering over $26 million from Rocky Mountain Power on behalf of our clients;
• Represented a group of rural Utah cattle ranchers whose property was burned in the 2020 Canal Wildfire, recovering over $10 million in an arbitration award against Rocky Mountain Power notwithstanding RMP’s continual denial of liability throughout the litigation;
• Represented multiple tenants of the Silverado Apartments in downtown Salt Lake City, some of whom were burned and killed in the 2022 apartment fire, recovering a substantial amount on behalf of our clients above policy limits from the landlord and property managers;
• Represented Nu Skin Enterprises in a licensing dispute over technology used in Nu Skin’s BioPhotonic Scanner, obtaining a victory for Nu Skin at trial;
• Represented Costa Vida in a trade secret misappropriation case brought by Café Rio, concerning the two national fresh-Mex restaurant chains, ultimately reaching a favorable settlement for Costa Vida;
• Represented Wasatch Equality and a group of snowboarders seeking a permanent injunction against Alta Ski Resort and the United States Forest Service to overturn Alta’s no-snowboarding policy on Constitutional grounds under the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause, generating nationwide attention by raising novel Constitutional issues as a matter of first impression.

Prior to joining Parr Brown in 2004, Mr. Schofield practiced law for five years with a New York City-based law firm, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, and was a law clerk to Chief Judge Dee Benson of the United States District Court for the District of Utah. Mr. Schofield was also an assistant adjunct professor at Brigham Young University’s J. Reuben Clark Law School, where he taught a course in debtor and creditor law for four years with former bankruptcy judge, Ralph Mabey.

Mr. Schofield has been awarded the Martindale-Hubble AV Preeminent Rating—the highest rating in both legal ability and ethical standards awarded by Martindale-Hubbell based on reviews from attorneys and the judiciary. He has been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® editions for commercial litigation and insurance law. He has also been regularly recognized in Utah Business magazine’s Legal Elite for his work in civil litigation.

When not practicing law, Mr. Schofield enjoys spending time with his family, traveling, and recreating in the outdoors. Mr. Schofield is an avid surfer, snowboarder, yogi, and mountain biker, who considers himself fortunate to live in Salt Lake City, where he enjoys convenient access to Snowbird and the Wasatch backcountry.