- Business Disputes
The Sipos Firm has represented numerous clients with complex business disputes, including:
- Breach of Contract
- Breach of Fiduciary Duty
- Corporate Theft
- Minority Shareholder Rights
- Embezzlement
- Misappropriation of Trade Secret
- Misappropriation of Business Opportunity
- Fraud
- Dissolution of Corporate Entity
- Shareholder Dissolution
- Non-compete Agreements
- Personal Injury
The Sipos Firm has represented numerous clients in simple and complex personal injury actions, including:
- Auto Accidents
- Truck Accidents
- Dog Bites
- Hunting Injuries
- Slip & Fall
- Assault & Battery
- Rape and Sexual Abuse
- Invasion of Privacy
- Unlawful Video
- Securities Fraud
The Sipos Firm has represented many clients in high profile cases involve securities and investment fraud. Click here to learn more.
- Employment & Wages
The Sipos Firm has represented clients in employment and wage disputes, including:
- Unpaid Wages
- Unpaid Overtime
- Wrongful Termination
- Sexual Harassment
- Discrimination based on Age, Race, Religion, National Origin, Gender
- Violation of Non-Compete Contracts
- Violation of Non-Solicitation Contracts
- Government Whistleblower
The Sipos Firm has represented several whistleblowers of government fraud, othewise known as Qui Tam actions, or claims arising under the False Claims Act. The law requires whistleblowers to hire a lawyer for such claims, which can easily be lost unless the claims are presented according to statutory requirements that must be followed precisely to ensure proper handling.
- Crime Victim Law
The Sipos Firm represents crime victims in civil lawsuits. Crime victims often feel disappointed by the criminal law system that is designed more to punish a criminal than to benefit a victim, but which often does neither. Crime victims can learn more about the powerful rights they have in the civil law system at our dedicated website: www.victimrecoverylaw.com
- Post-Bankruptcy Litigation
The Sipos Firm represents clients in specialized lawsuits, called adversary proceedings, that often follow bankruptcy. Once a debtor files bankruptcy, creditors often pursue adversary proceedings to establish the amount of debt they are owed or to exclude their debt altogether from a bankruptcy discharge.
- Real Estate Lawsuits
The Sipos Firm has represented clients in a broad range of disputes involving real estate transactions, including claims related to the enforceability of real estate purchase contracts, lease agreements, fraud in connection with such contracts, and situations where real estate agents breach their duties by placing their own interests ahead of their customers.
- Collections
The Sipos Firm has represented numerous clients in recovering debts owed to them by others. The goal of many civil lawsuits is to obtain a judgment, but often that’s the easy part. After a judgment is obtained, additional litigation might be required to find debtors’ assets and recover them through supplemental proceedings, garnishments, writs of execution, and other available legal remedies.
- Local Counsel
The Sipos Firm acts as local counsel for out-of-state attorneys who need to practice within the Utah state or federal courts.
Business Disputes.
The Sipos Firm has represented individuals and corporations in a wide variety of complex business disputes, including the following:
- Breach of Contract
- Breach of Fiduciary Duty
- Corporate Theft
- Minority Shareholder Rights
- Embezzlement
- Misappropriation of Trade Secret
- Misappropriation of Business Opportunity
- Fraud
- Dissolution of Corporate Entity
- Shareholder Dissolution
- Non-compete Agreements
Some of our recent success include:
- Prevailing before the Utah Supreme Court to have summary judgment dismissal reversed in a class action lawsuit alleging violation of minority shareholder rights. See Torian v. Craig, 2012 UT 63, 289 P.3d 479 (Utah 2012). This is the first reported decision in Utah analyzing facts where a minority shareholder was found to have direct claims against corporate management for engaging in self-dealing actions that diluted the ownership interest of minority shareholders. The Court also ruled that corporate managers cannot hide behind the Utah Dissenter's Rights Statute to cover such self-dealing acts.
- Obtaining a complete dismissal of claims for client who had been sued for breaching a non-compete agreement.
- Compelling the opposing plaintiff to pay client's attorneys fees. The plaintiff had sued client for breach of contract that contained an attorney fee provision. After Sipos Law established that case had been filed without merit, plaintiff agreed to pay defendants' attorney fees.
- Obtaining more than $1.6 million for minority shareholder after his employer attempted to terminate him without providing him the equity he had earned through employment.
- Obtaining dismissal of lawsuit for client who had been sued for breach of contract.
