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While the U.S. Department of Justice opted not to question Paramount Skydance's proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, 12 state attorneys general and the Writers Guild of America are taking the media giants to court to block the sale. Antitrust expert Patrick Neville from Parsons Behle & Latimer joins Mountain Money to break down the legal theories behind the suits, how market definition and monopsony power play into the case, and what the high-stakes battle means for Hollywood and consumers.
Lightning sparks additional small fire in Uinta Mountains, MIDA adds Deer Crest land to Wasatch County projects, PCHS Football Coach Josh Montzingo talks about the first game of the season, Oakley City Council approves small property tax increase, Park City Mayor Nann Worel recaps Thursday night's council meeting, bankruptcy Lawyer Tom Beckett with Parsons Behle & Latimer discusses the Wohali bankruptcy filing and Toly leads most neighborhoods in Park City Council primary results.
Latest Utah Avalanche Center forecast, professional skier raising awareness for mental health with new film, Nate Thomas of Parsons Behle & Latimer talks about some of the legal issues surrounding the Park City Ski Patrol Union strike, Utah's first four-season backcountry hut-to-hut system to open this winter, new tech helps Little Cottonwood Canyon manage avalanche dangers, Wasatch County Search and Rescue member Kam Kohler on how to stay safe in the backcountry this winter, Park City resident and former U.S. Ski Team member Megan McJames promotes her new film "Trailblazer," how Summit Land Conservancy preserves Wasatch Back land and Colorado wildlife commission urges officials to continue wolf reintroductions.
This week on Mountain Money, (00:01) the New York Times' Tripp Mickle unveils the dramatic untold story inside Apple in his new book, After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion Dollar Company and Lost its Soul. Then, (21:36) Attorney J.D. Kesler along with Parsons Behle & Latimer joins Alison and Roger to talk about eminent domain and how it works. Think of it as eminent domain 101. (39:27) Mountain Money will end the hour with Tana Toly, Co-Owner of Red Banjo Pizza who is celebrating 60 years of service to the community.
In this episode, we are joined by John R. Lund Attorney at Law, Parsons Behle & Latimer and former President, Utah State Bar, and Rick Hoffman Owner, Lone Peak Valuation Group. Both are on the board of the Office of Legal Services Innovation, which created the Utah Legal Sandbox whose goal is increasing Utahns' ability to access quality legal help, when, where, and how they want it by increasing the diversity, affordability, and competitiveness of the legal services market.
John R. Lund, attorney at Parsons Behle & Latimer and former President of the Utah State Bar, and Rick Hoffman, owner of Lone Peak Valuation Group, are both on the board of the Utah Legal Sandbox – a program that opens the door to new models or services being offered and tested in the legal world. This allows for new, innovative approaches and multi-disciplinary practices to be tested and introduced into the way legal services are provided. The sandbox also gives everyone a chance to talk with a chatbot online to answer non-specific legal questions.
Bryan L. Elwood focuses his practice in the corporate, transactional, and finance sectors, advising clients in negotiating and implementing asset and equity acquisitions and dispositions, corporate restructurings, and financial transactions. He has extensive experience advising dental support organizations, large dental practice groups, individual dentists, and other health care providers in a variety of corporate and regulatory matters, including buying and selling dental practices, forming dental support organizations, and preparing and implementing business support and other related agreements between dental support organizations and dental practices. In addition to his dental and other health care legal work, Bryan also provides general corporate governance and business transaction services to clients across all industries and has significant experience representing creditors, debtors, and other parties-in-interest in the areas of creditors' and debtors' rights and complex bankruptcy cases. Prior to joining Parsons Behle & Latimer, Bryan was Senior Counsel at Dykema Gossett in Dallas after spending over 11 years at Greenberg Traurig in its Dallas office. Following law school, he served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Robert C. McGuire, Chief Judge of the United States Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of Texas (Dallas Division). What You Will Learn: How the practice acquisition timeline typically works, and why Bryan compares the process to a courting relationship Why the seller will want to share their financials early in the process, right after the non-disclosure agreement has been signed What particular metrics within the financial information the buyer should be looking for to ensure that the practice is a match for their needs Why a letter of intent is an important layer of protection, and what key steps need to be taken before closing a deal Why the existing office lease is an important consideration to keep in mind, and why lenders will typically expect a renegotiated agreement What other work Bryan does for dentists and dental practices alongside his work in practice acquisition How Bryan works with clients in multiple states, helping them with contractual and non-litigation matters Why Bryan sees a lot of new opportunities for people working in today's dental environment, and what advice he would offer about doing things right the first time How to contact Bryan Elwood Telephone: (801) 536-6781 Email: delwood@parsonsbehle.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/bryan-l-elwood-2034a48/ Prior to joining Parsons Behle & Latimer, Bryan was Senior Counsel at Dykema Gossett in Dallas after spending over 11 years at Greenberg Traurig in its Dallas office. Following law school, he served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Robert C. McGuire, Chief Judge of the United States Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of Texas (Dallas Division). What You Will Learn: How the practice acquisition timeline typically works, and why Bryan likens the process to a courting relationship Why the seller will want to share their financials early in the process, right after the non-disclosure agreement has been signed What particular metrics within the financial information the buyer should be looking for to ensure that the practice is a match for their needs Why a letter of intent is an important layer of protection, and what key steps need to be taken before closing a deal Why the existing office lease is an important consideration to keep in mind, and why lenders will typically expect a renegotiated agreement What other work Bryan does for dentists and dental practices alongside his work in practice acquisition How Bryan works with clients in multiple states, helping them with contractual and non-litigation matters Why Bryan sees a lot of new opportunities for people working in today's dental environment, and what advice he would offer about doing things right the first time How to contact Bryan Elwood Telephone: (801) 536-6781 Email: delwood@parsonsbehle.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/bryan-l-elwood-2034a48/
In August, a Utah task force on access to justice issued a report that called for “profoundly reimagining the way legal services are regulated in order to harness the power of entrepreneurship, capital, and machine learning in the legal arena.” Two days later, the Utah Supreme Court voted unanimously to approve the report’s recommendations, including substantially loosening regulatory restrictions on lawyers and creating a “regulatory sandbox” to allow a market of non-traditional legal entities to provide legal services in the state. In this episode of LawNext, we take an in-depth look at this unprecedented experiment in enhancing access to justice through regulatory reform. Joining host Bob Ambrogi to discuss the report, Narrowing the Access-to-Justice Gap by Reimagining Regulation, and its implementation are the cochairs of the Task Force, who will now continue as cochairs to oversee the implementation of the recommendations: Justice Constandinos “Deno” Himonas was appointed to the Utah Supreme Court in February 2015 by Gov. Gary Herbert. Prior to his appointment, he served as a trial court judge for over 10 years. A 1989 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, he began his legal career as a litigator with the law firm of Jones, Waldo, Holbrook & McDonough, where he focused on complex civil litigation. John R. Lund is past-president of the Utah State Bar and partner with Parsons Behle & Latimer in Salt Lake City, where he focuses his practice on litigation and trial work. A 1984 graduate of the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, he is also chair of the Utah Supreme Court’s Advisory Committee on the Rules of Evidence. Further reading: Utah Supreme Court Votes to Approve Pilot Allowing Non-Traditional Legal Services. Utah Task Force Calls for ‘Profoundly Reimagining the Way Legal Services Are Regulated’. NEW: We are now on Patreon! Subscribe to our page to be able to access show transcripts, or to submit a question for our guests. Comment on this show: Record a voice comment on your mobile phone and send it to info@lawnext.com.
SEAN D. REYES – Utah’s 21st Attorney General In 2013, at the age of 42, the Honorable Sean Reyes was appointed by Governor Gary Herbert as Utah’s 21st Attorney General. Reyes took over an office racked with scandal and inefficiency in the midst of some of the most significant constitutional issues in state history. Within a year, he reorganized and re-energized the office internally and recaptured the trust of the State with striking leadership, innovative programs and historic wins against drug dealers, human traffickers, child predators, and white-collar criminals. After winning the election in 2014 by one of the largest margins nationwide, Reyes was selected in 2015 by the Republican National Committee as one of its four national rising stars. After graduating summa cum laude from Brigham Young University in 1994, Reyes earned his law degree with honors from U.C. Berkeley in 1997. He practiced for nearly fourteen years at Parsons Behle & Latimer, the largest law firm in the State, where he became one of the first minority lawyers to make partner at a major Utah firm. While there, Reyes represented clients on some of the largest and most high profile litigation cases in the history of the State. He argued or briefed cases before state and federal courts throughout the country, including the Utah Supreme Court and Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. He has been honored nationally and locally with a long list of awards for his legal skills, leadership and unparalleled commitment to public service and has founded and served multiple non-profit organizations. The son of a Spanish-Filipino immigrant father, who fled the Marcos regime and a Japanese-Hawaiian mother, AG Reyes is Utah’s first minority elected statewide. AG Reyes and his wife, Saysha, are the proud parents of 6 children. He is a former collegiate volleyball player and mixed martial arts fighter who enjoys speaking at Comic Cons, playing basketball, coaching his kids, dancing with Saysha, watching Sports Center, cooking, shooting guns and rapping on Bloomberg News.
In February, Silicon Valley law firm Wilson Sonsini announced the launch of SixFifty, a software subsidiary that will develop automated tools designed to make legal processes more efficient and affordable for individuals, small businesses and emerging companies. Named president of SixFifty was Kimball Dean Parker, the lawyer who helped develop the innovative LawX design lab at BYU Law School. On this episode of LawNext, host Bob Ambrogi visits Parker in SixFifty’s Lehi, Utah, office, where they discuss Wilson Sonsini’s reasons for creating a software subsidiary and for locating it in Utah, the privacy tool SixFifty is developing for businesses to comply with California’s Consumer Privacy Act, and other products on SixFifty’s roadmap, including several to enhance access to justice. Parker also talks about the LawX Lab and its work to develop SoloSuit, an online tool to help debtors respond to collection lawsuits; Parsons Behle Lab, the subsidiary he started for his former law firm, and its GDPR compliance tool; and his first start-up CO/COUNSEL, a legal education and crowdsourcing site. A 2013 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, Parker began his legal career as an associate with Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan in San Francisco. He returned to his home state of Utah in 2016, where he was with the law firm Parsons Behle & Latimer until starting SixFifty this year. NEW: We are now Patreon! Subscribe to our page to be able to access show transcripts, or to submit a question for our guests. Comment on this show: Record a voice comment on your mobile phone and send it to info@lawnext.com.
Meat and Potatoes shines a light on the people in Silicon Slopes who get things done. Hosted by Silicon Slopes Director of Operations Garrett Clark and random interns we explore how, why, and when they get those things done, and why their work is the meat and potatoes of Utah’s tech community. In episode 6 Kimball Dean Parker and Tomu Johnson from the law firm Parsons Behle & Latimer stop by the studio to talk about the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which is a European Union regulation that governs how businesses and nonprofits handle personal information from individuals in Europe. There are a lot of details about this regulation that will impact Silicon Slopes companies. Luckily, Kimball and Tomu have come up with some innovative tools that can help. They recently launched Parsons Behle Labs and happily the first product to roll out of the lab is a tool designed to help navigate GDRP. The product is called GDPR IQ and will help companies comply with the GDPR in minutes, for a fraction of the price of a lawyer. A business or nonprofit answers simple questions about how it handles personal information. GDPR IQ takes that information and produces a set of customized compliance documents.
Meat and Potatoes shines a light on the people in Silicon Slopes who get things done. Hosted by Silicon Slopes Director of Operations Garrett Clark and random interns we explore how, why, and when they get those things done, and why their work is the meat and potatoes of Utah's tech community. In episode 6 Kimball Dean Parker and Tomu Johnson from the law firm Parsons Behle & Latimer stop by the studio to talk about the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which is a European Union regulation that governs how businesses and nonprofits handle personal information from individuals in Europe. There are a lot of details about this regulation that will impact Silicon Slopes companies. Luckily, Kimball and Tomu have come up with some innovative tools that can help. They recently launched Parsons Behle Labs and happily the first product to roll out of the lab is a tool designed to help navigate GDRP. The product is called GDPR IQ and will help companies comply with the GDPR in minutes, for a fraction of the price of a lawyer. A business or nonprofit answers simple questions about how it handles personal information. GDPR IQ takes that information and produces a set of customized compliance documents.
Juli Blanch is a shareholder with the law firm of Parsons Behle & Latimer in Salt Lake City, Utah. A graduate of Harvard Law School, Ms. Blanch has an extensive product liability practice, representing manufacturers and distributors of all types of products, including appliances, power tools, and vehicles. While Ms. Blanch's practice has an emphasis in product liability, she has handled litigation of all types and sizes over the past several years, ranging from catastrophic personal injury claims to employment litigation; from commercial disputes to insurance coverage lawsuits.