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 | E. Barney GesasShareholder
Clyde Snow & Sessions, PC
One Utah Center, Thirteenth Floor, 201 South Main Street
Salt Lake City, Utah
84111-2216
(Salt Lake Co.)
Telephone: 801.322.2516
Fax: 801.521.6280
http://www.clydesnow.com/attorneys/listed-by-name/38-e-barney-gesas
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| Practice Areas | Complex Civil Litigation | | | University | University of Idaho, B.S., 1969 | | | Law School | University of Utah, J.D., 1972 | | | Admitted | 1972, Utah and U.S. District Court, District of Utah; 1977, U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit | |
| Memberships | Utah State Bar (Member: Long Range Planning Committee, 1977-1979; Ethics and Disciplinary Committee, 1981-1984; Bar Examiners Committee, 1985-1988; Courts & Judges Committee, 1994-1998); American Bar Association. | | | Born | Idaho Falls, Idaho, November 27, 1946 | | | Biography | For more than thirty-eight years, Mr. Gesas has concentrated his practice in complex civil litigation; state and federal regulatory matters; municipal, county, and state land use planning; and condemnation. He spent more than seven years serving as lead counsel for plaintiffs In Re: The Salt Lake Tribune Litigation pending in the United States District Court for the District of Utah and the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, representing the McCarthey Family in a high profile and complex case involving the ownership of Utah's largest general circulation newspaper. Mr. Gesas served as Special Assistant Attorney General on behalf of the Utah Department of Transportation in a complex eminent domain action involving highway right-of-way acquisition and severance damage issues involving claims in excess of $20,000,000. He also served as Special Counsel to the Utah State Bar in disciplinary proceedings. In the past, Mr. Gesas served as outside Special Counsel to the Town of Alta, Utah in various land use and zoning development matters impacting the preservation of the Salt Lake City's primary watershed. He also served as Director of Utah Legal Services, Inc. (1975-1977) and Special Trial Counsel to Utah State Bar on Ethics and Disciplinary Matters (1995-1996). Mr. Gesas has represented public utility customer class action groups in challenging the rate practices and procedures of Utah's three major utilities including natural gas, telephone, and electrical utilities. This representation has included participation in lengthy evidentiary rate case hearings conducted before the Utah Public Service Commission and complex appeals to the Utah Supreme Court involving Utah's largest natural gas public utility. Mr. Gesas' awards and honors include the following: an award from Utah State Bar for serving as Special Counsel on ethics and disciplinary matters; listing among Utah Legal Elite in business litigation; naming as Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America; and has achieved the highest rating for legal ability in Martindale-Hubbell. Currently, Mr. Gesas is Chair of Clyde Snow's Litigation (Civil, Environmental, Intellectual Property, Insurance Defense) Practice Group. | | | Reported Cases | First Security Bank v. Banberry Crossing, 780 P.2d 1253 (Utah 1989) (multi-party contract and fraud case that established guidelines for commercial lending practices and elements of business fraud in Utah); Olympus Hills Shopping Center Ltd. v. Smith's Food & Drug, 889 P.2d 445 (Utah Ct. App. 1994) (a widely cited Utah case regarding breach of commercial leases that expanded the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing); Robert Winn, et al. v. University of Utah, et al., Third District Ct., Summit County, Utah, Civ. No. 0600105 (2000) (high profile case in Utah employment law dealing with medical professionals enforcement of their contractual rights, defeating a covenant not to compete, and the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing) | | | ISLN | 907128111 | |
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