Callister Nebeker & McCullough | Law Firm | Utah

Scott estate planning chair

kamron.keele — Wed, 09 May 2012 20:06:47 +0000

Scott McCullough has been elected to serve as the Chair of the Utah State Bar Estate Planning Section for 2012-2013. Scott’s practice includes tax, estate and business planning – including the creation of wills and trusts, probate, creation of business entities, asset protection strategies and charitable or tax exempt organizations. Scott assists clients in a broad range of situations to minimize taxes, protect business and personal assets, and plan for the needs of their businesses and families in the future.

Mark Morrise estate planning section

kamron.keele — Wed, 02 May 2012 21:23:51 +0000

On May 8, 2012, Mark Morrise will speak to the Estate Planning Section of the Utah State Bar. His topic will be “10 Ways to Add Flexibility to Irrevocable Trusts.”

kamron.keele — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:45:35 +0000

On Friday, May 4th, 2012, Mike Stanger will be a panelist at the Fifth Annual Southern Utah Federal Law Symposium to be held in St. George. The title of the panel presentation will be “How to File and Defend a Charge of Discrimination.” Mr. Stanger will address employer defense strategy when faced with a Charge of Discrimination. The firm is also a sponsor of the symposium; agenda and additional information on the symposium can be viewed here.

Jim Gilson election

kamron.keele — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:21:51 +0000

Congratulations to Jim Gilson on his reelection as a Commissioner for the Utah State Bar. We really appreciate Jim’s good work and the time he donates to serve the Bar.

Mark Morrise What Clients Want

kamron.keele — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:15:18 +0000

On Tuesday, May 1, 2012, Mark Morrise will speak to the Salt Lake Chapter of the Society of Financial Service Professionals. The title of his presentation is “What Clients Want: The Flexible Irrevocable Trust.”

Estate Planning Seminar

kamron.keele — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 21:03:05 +0000

Laurie Hart and Scott McCullough were presenters at the Utah State Bar’s Intermediate Seminar on Estate Planning held on April 12, 2012. Scott and Laurie are frequent speakers to both professional and public groups regarding estate planning, probate and business creation issues. Laurie and Scott also write extensively about these topics.

UBI Seminar- Damon E. Coombs

kamron.keele — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:24:37 +0000

On March 26, 2012, Damon E. Coombs will be a speaker at the NBI Seminar for Helping Your Client Buy or Sell a Small-to-Medium Sized Business. Damon will be speaking on tax savings strategies during acquisitions covering the following agenda: allocation of purchase price; use of consulting agreements; personal goodwill and entity level goodwill; tax-free reorganizations; deductibility of acquisition expense; preserving tax characterization on Audit.

Damon is a shareholder with the firm where he provides general representation for both publicly held and privately held business entities. His practice also includes business finance, real estate, tax and estate planning, and labor and employment.

Mark Morrise Conference

kamron.keele — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:52:19 +0000

On March 9th and 10th, Mark Morrise attended a Leadership Development Conference for the Society of Financial Service Professionals held in Phoenix, Arizona. Mark is a third-year Board Member of the Utah Chapter of the Society of Financial Service Professionals.

On March 13th, Scott McCullough and Mark Morrise presented at a half-day seminar, “Estate Planning Basics,” hosted by LawReviewCLE in Salt Lake City.

10th Cir. MERS Case

kamron.keele — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 19:41:56 +0000

Jim Gilson, Mark Callister and Tayler Fox drafted and submitted a brief on behalf of MERS (Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.) that substantially assisted in a favorable decision for MERS by the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in December 2011. The Court ruled that the securitization of mortgage loans does not prevent the holder of a trust deed, or its agent, from enforcing its security interest in a borrower’s property, including through foreclosure.

In Commonwealth Property Advocates, LLC v. Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. et al., — F.3d —-, 2011 WL 6739431, the Tenth Circuit consolidated three similar appeals brought by Commonwealth Property Advocates, LLC (“CPA”) seeking to prevent certain banks, or their agent, MERS, from foreclosing on borrowers who had defaulted on their loans. CPA argued that the banks and MERS lost any enforceable interest in the mortgage loans once they had been pooled and sold as mortgage-backed securities. The Tenth Circuit rejected CPA’s arguments and upheld the rights of the banks and MERS to foreclose on securitized mortgage loans. The brief on behalf of MERS was filed in one of the three consolidated cases decided by this case, which has now set a precedent in the Tenth Circuit on this developing legal issue. You can read the Court’s decision here.

Jim Gilson and Tayler Fox have substantial experience in lender liability and foreclosure litigation defense at both the district and appellate court levels and have successfully represented national and local banks against claims of wrongful foreclosure and lending practices related to sub-prime loans, securitized mortgages, transfers of debts, loan workouts, and servicing of loans.

2012 Utah legal elite

kamron.keele — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:51:32 +0000

We are pleased to announce that the following attorneys have been chosen by their peers as one of Utah Business magazine’s 2012 Utah Legal Elite:

Brian W. Burnett, Energy/Natural Resources
Cass C. Butler, Construction
Mark L. Callister, Civil Litigation
James D. Gilson, Civil Litigation
Andrew L. Howell, Estate Planning
W. Waldan Lloyd, Corporate Law and Transactions
Leland McCullough, Estate Planning
Jeffrey L. Shields, Bankruptcy/Workout
Zachary T. Shields, Bankruptcy/Workout