- Adoption
- Criminal Defense
- Corporate LawIn some cases, following full disclosure and client authorization, the firm may act as general counsel, functioning as the dedicated provider of company legal and corporate governance services, and as necessary coordinating the delivery of legal services through its network of special or local counsel associated for that purpose. By the same token, we accept appointment as special or local counsel for other firms and attorneys whose practices are, respectively, different in focus or geographically and jurisdictionally remote.
- Mergers and AcquisitionsFounder of Burningham Business Law, Brent M. Burningham concentrates his practice on providing strategic and tactical legal services to a wide range of business clients operating in domestic and foreign markets. As a registered patent attorney and former general counsel to multiple private corporations, Mr. Burningham structures entities and helps build shareholder value by acquiring, exploiting and enforcing intellectual property rights through prosecution of patent, trademark and copyright applications, and negotiating licenses and technology transfer agreements. The breadth of his legal practice spans transaction support, private financing, mergers and acquisitions, exit planning, international trade, and all customary dispute resolution methods.
- Business DisputesBurningham Business Law serves the needs of individual and corporate clients locally, nationally, and in many cases globally. We are licensed to practice in the state and US district courts in Utah, in the Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), and the various federal administrative and regulatory agencies.
- Business TransactionsWith the advent of cost-based managerial accounting, hourly fees are commonplace today, but that was not always the case. While counting time is good for measuring internal efficiencies and provider productivity, especially in "big-law" firms, time spent does not always correlate to value delivered to the client. Consequently, this firm applies "alternative billing practices" whenever practical. This means under appropriate circumstances we are comfortable hailing back to a simpler age when flat fees and fixed periodic retainers were the norm. Granted, there are projects and situations, like litigation or commercial transactions, where the full scope of the work is so uncertain, or the transaction so complex, that hourly billing is the most practical and reasonable fee arrangement.
- Intellectual PropertyPrior to founding his own practice, Mr. Burningham served as General Counsel to 3form, Inc., an industry pioneering manufacturer of architectural panels, and Albion Laboratories, Inc., a leading manufacturer of mineral nutritional supplements, mineral pharmaceutical ingredients, and food and agricultural fortificants. Previously, Mr. Burningham joined the accounting firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP ("PwC"), where he worked in the Technology, Information, Communication and Entertainment ("TICE") practice group in its Boston, Massachussetts office. Primary client assignments included Tyco International (NYSE:TYC) and Genzyme Pharmaceuticals (NYSE:SNY), as well as many lesser-known high-tech and bio-tech companies, allowing Mr. Burningham to be involved in several significant international mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and intellectual property licensing transactions and valuations. Operating in this abundantly intellectual property-driven practice led Mr. Burningham to become a registered patent attorney and return to corporate practice.
- Unfair Competition
- Antitrust
- Construction Litigation
- Personal InjuryContingent fee arrangements are perhaps the most well-known performance based fee arrangements. Personal injury and medical malpractice claims are commonly handled on a contingent fee basis. Contingent fee arrangements are best when liability is established or a high probability, and the main issue to be determined is the amount of damages. In such cases law firms frequently have financing in place to fund the litigation, allowing the case to move forward with minimal or no fees or costs paid by the plaintiffs except out of the amount recovered in the case. The firms are willing to operate on a contingent fee basis because of their confidence in obtaining a satisfactory and profitable result. In some cases contingency fees are prohibited. Such prohibitions vary by state, but commonly apply to domestic relations and criminal matters.
- Medical Malpractice
- Estate PlanningExamples of services provided by this firm that are well suited to Flat Fee arrangements include preparing and filing provisional patent applications, trademark and copyright applications, entity formation, implementing employee stock option plans, and basic executive estate planning using wills and trusts.
- Wills
- Trusts
- Bankruptcy
- Tax Law