Commercial Litigation
Jonathan O. Hafen, Shareholder at Parr Brown Gee & Loveless Most business leaders understand that litigation can be expensive, time-consuming, and emotionally draining. Fearing that outcome, clients sometimes ask me how they can avoid a lawsuit. Unfortunately, a business can be sued by almost anyone at any time, whether they have a valid claim or not. However, the best advice to avoid litigation in the first place, and to give your business the best chance to prevail if you are sued, is the same advice mothers have been giving their kids for decades – stop, look, and listen. Most business
Download PDF BACKGROUND: LIQWID is Hit with Lawsuit On December 23, 2011, LeftsNRights, a young, rapidly-growing Internet technology and marketing company doing business under the name of LIQWID and its principals were served with an “everything but the kitchen sink” complaint that sought to shut down LIQWID, to obtain its intellectual property, to preclude its lead inventor from working in the industry, and the disgorgement of all LIQWID’s capital. Notwithstanding the holiday season, LIQWID immediately sent the complaint to Parr Brown Gee & Loveless, its corporate counsel, asking about the appropriate strategy in dealing with such an aggressive claim and wishing
ACLU of Utah Announces Intended Lawsuit On HB 477 Posted 3/21/11 – Representing certain sponsors of the referendum to repeal HB 477–the controversial bill that eviscerated Utah’s public records law–the ACLU of Utah today notified Attorney General Mark Shurtleff and Governor Gary Herbert that it will commence an action challenging the restrictions in SB 165 (which forbids the use of e-signatures to support referenda and initiatives) unless immediate assurances are given that HB 477 will be repealed as soon as possible. “We believe the provisions in SB 165 that purport to establish a blanket ban on the collection and use
Electricity Daily The Bush administration is quietly negotiating behind the scenes on some compromises to its Clear Skies approach to rewriting the 1990 Clean Air Act, according to Utah environmental lawyer Steve Christiansen. “The scuttlebutt is that the White House is talking abut some changes to the bill it introduced last year that would make the legislation more palatable to a wider group of players,” he told Electricity Daily last week. Christiansen, whose experience with the air law goes back to the early 1980s, said he suspects that the success of the administration’s “voluntary” reduction program – which apparently involves considerable twisting of arms
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