About Us - Firm Overview

As one of Utah's largest law firms, Kirton & McConkie provides its clients with a full range of legal services both in the United States and internationally. The firm takes pride in providing quality legal work at a reasonable price to all of its clients, whether they are individuals, small businesses, large corporations, or multinational institutions. Kirton & McConkie has received the highest rating for professional and ethical standards by Martindale-Hubbell, and is listed in the prestigious Bar Register in its list of "preeminent law firms" in the United States.

Philosophy

Kirton & McConkie's prime objective is to provide quality legal services ethically, efficiently and to its clients' satisfaction. The firm endeavors to achieve and maintain this standard by carefully selecting, training, and supervising attorneys and other professionals, and by encouraging continuous legal education. The firm also emphasizes the need to effectively use legal assistants, staff, and technologies, helping to minimize costs to its clients, maintain good client communications, and respond in a timely manner to client needs for legal services. The firm also has instituted state-of-the-art computer technology that provides for thorough research, timely communication with clients, and detailed billing statements -- all to increase efficiency. The firm also encourages our attorneys to become involved in improving the community, locally and nationally, through involvement in community, bar, and service organizations.

Overview of Practice

As a full-service law firm, Kirton & McConkie offers legal services in a wide range of legal disciplines. The firm is organized into specialty sections, allowing our attorneys to develop focused expertise, while having those experienced in other areas of the law available to provide consultation as needed. Specifically, the firm has a substantial practice in corporate, corporate taxation, finance, banking, and lender liability; intellectual property law, including patents, trademarks, and copyrights; creditor rights and bankruptcy law; construction law, real estate, real estate finance, and land use and development; healthcare law and medical malpractice defense litigation; insurance defense litigation; business litigation; environmental law; international and immigration law; probate and estate planning, including wills and trusts; legislation and lobbying; workers' compensation; employment law and labor relations; public utilities and administrative law; pension and profit-sharing plans; mergers and acquisitions, private and public offerings, and constitutional, religious and appellate law. Attorneys in the firm are also skilled in effective use of alternate dispute resolution practices, including arbitration and mediation, workouts, and negotiation, handling such matters for clients throughout the United States and abroad.

Throughout the years, clients of the firm have come to rely on the expertise, judgment, and professional integrity of attorneys of the firm in strategic planning as well as day-to-day operation of their business or enterprise. Many large and medium-sized corporations have chosen to involve the services of the firm, rather than employ their own in-house counsel. This has allowed them the personal relationship and reliance upon a "lead or coordinating attorney," while providing access to lawyers with a wide range of legal expertise, based upon their needs at various stages of business growth and development.

Although based in Salt Lake City, Utah, the firm has many lawyers who have practiced and/or lived throughout the world and who speak a variety of languages, including Spanish, German, French, Russian, Portuguese, and a number of Asian languages. The firm represents many multinational corporations as well as representing foreign corporations in connection with their business interests in the United States. Through our international representation, attorneys in the firm work closely with an established network of law firms and legal professionals in all 50 states and throughout the world, including Canada, Latin America, Asia, the former Soviet Union, and Western and Eastern Europe.