About
Mike’s exercise entails complicated commercial disputes concerning highbrow property, insurance, securities, and constitutional, global, and comparative regulation. As a result of his particular background, he additionally has developed an information precise to media and leisure law. He has revel in in any respect stages of litigation from trial court to final enchantment and specially enjoys supporting innovative startups discover creative solutions to practical and felony dilemmas.
With Parr Brown’s Media and First Amendment group, Mike facilitates companies and people with numerous privacy, defamation, and public-access troubles beneath nation and federal law. He frequently assists reporters and others seeking get right of entry to to information from the government via the Freedom of Information Act and Utah’s Government Records Access and Management Act (GRAMA) or Open and Public Meetings Act.
Since first joining Parr Brown, Mike has committed a substantial part of his exercise to pro bono paintings. Through Parr Brown’s Freedom of Information Hotline, he has handled infinite public-get entry to cases. With the ACLU, he and different Parr Brown attorneys challenged the constitutionality of Ogden’s “anti-gang injunction,” which the Utah Supreme Court invalidated because of their attraction. On behalf of a coalition of media stores, he helped steady the release of surveillance footage of a deadly shooting throughout a crook intending in a federal courtroom. And with other Parr Brown lawyers, he has been supporting refugees are trying to find asylum within the United States.
Mike’s accomplishments were fueled by way of a tireless paintings ethic. Prior to becoming a member of Parr Brown, he gained an award at an worldwide film pageant, controlled political campaigns, became an authorized stockbroker, backpacked for the duration of Europe twice, volunteered at a civil-rights enterprise to help households displaced by using hurricanes, and slept at infinite truck stops throughout the usa because the singer and guitarist for a journeying rock band.
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- Appeals & Appellate
- Civil Appeals, Federal Appeals
- Entertainment & Sports Law
- International Law
- Human Rights, Imports & Exports
- Intellectual Property
- Securities Law
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