Attorneys

Mr. Callister is a Director of the Firm and has extensive experience in commercial and business litigation with an emphasis on antitrust, unfair competition, and complex contract disputes. After graduating from law school in 1984, Mr. Callister practiced in Los Angeles, California with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher before returning to Utah in 1993. He served as Vice Chairman of the State Action Immunity Committee of the American Bar Association Antitrust Section and on the Board of the Utah Chapter of the Federal Bar Association. He served as Special Assistant Attorney General for the State of Montana from 1996 – 2006 to advise the Attorney General on healthcare antitrust matters. He has represented clients in antitrust investigations before the United States Federal Trade Commission and the Utah Attorney General’s Office. He has been recognized by his peers as one of Utah’s “legal elite” and was listed in Mountain States Super Lawyers Magazine in 2010. He is rated AV by Martindale – Hubbell.

PUBLICATIONS

• Price Fixing – An Antitrust Trap for the Unwary, Zions Bank Community Magazine October 2005.
• State Action Practice Manual, Co-author, Section of Antitrust Law, American Bar Association, Chicago, 2000.
• Proving Antitrust Damages, Co-author, Section of Antitrust Law, American Bar Association, Chicago, 1996.

PUBLISHED CASES / COURT DECISIONS

• Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints v. Lindberg, 238 P.3d 1054, 2010 UT 51 (Utah 2010)(denying petition for extraordinary writ challenging the constitutionality of court ordered management of large land trust)
• West Charleston Lofts I, LLC v. R & O Const. Co., 2010 WL 4128144 (9th Cir. 2010)(reversing expungement of general contractor’s mechanics lien on condominium project)
• Orchard Park Care Center v. Utah Dept. of Health 2009 Ut App 284 (Utah App. 2009)(reversing agency denial of intervention in healthcare licensing matters)
• Trace Minerals Research, L.C. v. Mineral Resources Int’l, Inc., 505 F.Supp.2d 1233 (D. Utah 2007)(granting summary judgment on trademark infringement and unfair competition claims)
• Wilcox v. Anchor Wate, Co. 164 P3d 353 (Utah 2007)(reinsurance coverage dispute)
• Mardanlou v. Ghaffarian 135 P3d 904 (Utah App. 2006)((partnership dispute)
• American Ad Management v. GTE Corp., 92 F.3d 781 (9th Cir. 1996)(antitrust standing)
• Zions First Nat’l Bank v. Fox & Company, 931 P.2d 142 (Utah 1997)(trust administration dispute)
• American Ad Management v. General Te. Co. of Cal., 190 F.3d 1051 (9th Cir. 1999)(rejecting application of per-se rule in antitrust conspiracy action)

MEMBERSHIPS

• Utah Supreme Court
• California Supreme Court
• U.S. Court of Appeals, 10th Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit
• U.S. District Court, Utah
• U.S. District Court, Central District of California
• U.S. District Court, Northern District of California
• Utah Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, Director

EDUCATION

• University of Utah College of Law, Order of the Coif, 1984
• Executive Editor, Utah Law Review
• Traynor Legal Writing Award
• University of Utah, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 1981

PRACTICE AREAS
Litigation