| Biography | Mr. Love's business litigation experience includes antitrust claims brought under the Sherman Act and the Robinson-Patman Act (unfair competition, price fixing, price discrimination, concerted refusal to deal, horizontal and vertical restraints, and predatory conduct); intellectual property claims (trademark, trade dress, trade secret, unfair competition, and breaches of non-competition and non-disclosure agreements); and corporate, commercial, and securities litigation (insider self-dealing, minority shareholder disputes and valuation of minority shares, shareholder derivative claims, minority share valuation claims, securities fraud, RICO, and other business torts). For more than a decade, Mr. Love has represented a major oil company, an interstate crude oil pipeline company, and other clients in connection with various environmental litigation claims (including CERCLA-Superfund claims, actions brought under the Utah State LUST Act, and the federal Oil Pollution Act). Mr. Love has represented both property owners and various condemning authorities (including an interstate natural gas utility, a water district, state agencies, and municipalities) in both state and federal eminent domain proceedings. On behalf of many different clients, Mr. Love has litigated real estate claims involving title insurance, easements and rights of way, surveys, and boundary disputes. He has served as special assistant attorney general on behalf of the Utah Department of Transportation in a complex eminent domain action. He also served as special counsel to the Utah State Bar at trial in disbarment proceedings. He began his career as an associate at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., following a clerkship with the Honorable Francis D. Murnaghan, Jr., of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Baltimore, Maryland. He was a member of the Editorial Board for the University of Virginia Law Review (1978-1979) and was a Note and Comment Editor (1979-1980). He was also a member of the Utah Supreme Court Advisory Committee for Rules of Civil Procedure from 1991 to 2001 and a member of the Executive Committee of the Salt Lake County Bar from 1996 to 2001. And during 2002, he served as co-chair of the Utah State Bar Annual Convention. Currently, he is a member of the Judicial Nominating Commission for the Third District Court, chair of the Supreme Court Subcommittee on Model Jury Instructions for eminent domain, member of the Supreme Court Subcommittee on Model Jury Instructions for fraud & deceit, and Master of the Bench for the Inns of Court (since 1991). Mr. Love has received numerous awards for his law practice. A fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, he was also named among the Best Lawyers in America for commercial litigation and eminent domain. He has been consistently recognized as a Mountain States Super Lawyer for business litigation and among the Utah Legal Elite for business litigation, and he maintains highest rating for legal ability in Martindale-Hubbell. |