Today, Salt Lake City based law firm, Parr Brown Gee & Loveless (www.parrbrown.com) announced Allison Behjani and Chad Pehrson have been elected to become shareholders of the firm.
“Since they joined the firm as associates, Allison and Chad have strengthened our team of lawyers,” said Stephen Hale, President of Parr Brown. “Their status as shareholders is merited by their track records of dedication to providing excellent legal services to our clients. We look forward to their future accomplishments.” Allison Behjani’s practice includes providing transactional legal services to developers, lenders and contractors in connection with commercial, office, retail, industrial, residential, recreational and mixed use real estate developments. She received her B.A. in History from Brigham Young University, magna cum laude, in 2005. In 2008, she received her Juris Doctor, Order of the Coif, with Highest Honors from the University of Utah S. J. Quinney College of Law, where she was Symposium Editor of the Utah Law Review. Prior to joining Parr Brown, Behjani served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Ronald E. Nehring of the Utah Supreme Court. She has also been listed in Utah Business magazine’s “Legal Elite.”
Chad Pehrson’s practice includes providing legal services to clients involved in complex commercial litigation, including intellectual property disputes, patent infringement claims, as well as securities litigation, health care litigation, antitrust suits, government investigations, creditor and large-scale bankruptcy. He has represented some of the largest companies in the technology and financial sector industries and is licensed to practice law in California and Utah. Pehrson is a registered patent attorney with litigation experience in multiple venues throughout the United States. Prior to joining Parr Brown, Pehrson was an associate with the law firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in Palo Alto, CA, and a law clerk to United States District Judge Kim R. Gibson of the Western District of Pennsylvania. Pehrson earned an honors degree from the University of Utah, a degree in Rhetoric from Carnegie Mellon University, and a law degree from Vanderbilt University Law School, where he was voted by his peers as “Outstanding Third-Year Editor” of theVanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law.
