Lawyer Overview

Mark Dykes is a shareholder in the firm's Litigation and Environmental, Energy & Natural Resources Departments. He participates in business litigation, Chapter 11 bankruptcy related litigation, complex liability insurance coverage cases, advises insurers, TPA's and agents on compliance with insurance regulations, and has expertise in reinsurance. He also advises and represents the electric utility industry and entities with interests in that industry in a wide variety of matters, including the drafting of coal supply, transportation, and by-products agreements, extensive stray-voltage litigation, disputes over power-supply contracts, including all-requirements agreements, the rejection or attempted rejection of executory fuel and transportation contracts in Chapter 11, and the financial reorganization of electric utilities.

Mr. Dykes graduated with a J.D. degree in 1987 from the University of California at Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law. In 1983, he received a B.A. degree, summa cum laude, from the College of Idaho. Mark was admitted to the Utah State Bar in 1987 and the Colorado State Bar in 1989. He is a member of the litigation and bankruptcy sections of the Utah State Bar, and has served as an adjunct professor of law at the University of Utah College of Law, where he has taught insurance law. He has also lectured and published in the fields of bankruptcy and insurance law.

Related Activities and Skills:

• Member, Utah State Bar Litigation and Bankruptcy Sections

• Recipient, Scott M. Matheson Award for Outstanding Service to Law-Related Education (1998).

• Adjunct Professor, University of Utah College of Law (2000-2002, Insurance Law)

Areas of Practice

• Litigation & Appeals
• Electric Utilities
• Bankruptcy Law & Litigation
• Insurance Law & Coverage

West Practice Categories

Bankruptcy Law, Public Utilities, Insurance Law, Litigation & Appeals

Bar Admissions

• Utah, 1987
• Colorado, 1989

Classes and Seminars

• Lecturer, "Treatment of Nonresidential Real Property Leases in Bankruptcy", National Business Institute, 2005 (Salt Lake City, Utah).
• Lecturer, "Insurance Litigation in Utah," National Business Institute, 2004 (Salt Lake City, Utah).
• Lecturer, "Bankruptcy Litigation in Utah," National Business Institute, 2003 (Salt Lake City, Utah).

Education

• University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, Berkeley, California, 1987
  J.D., Doctor of Jurisprudence
  
  Law Review: International Tax and Business Lawyer, Associate Editor, 1985 - 1987
• The College of Idaho, Caldwell, Idaho, 1983
  B.A., Bachelor of Arts
  Honors: summa cum laude

Published Works

• Author: Do Insurance Companies Buy Insurance?, Utah Bar Journal, May/June, 2009
• Well, What Did You Expect? The Utah Supreme Court Discusses "Accidents", Utah Bar Journal, May, 2008
• Fuller Up: The California Court of Appeal Addresses 11 U.S.C.524(g)and Insurance Law, Coverage, January/February, 2007
• Parduhn Me: the Utah Supreme Court and the Insurable Interest Requirement, Utah Bar Journal, July/August, 2006
• Occurrences, Accidents and Expectations: A Primer of These (and Some Other) Insurance Law Concepts, 2003 Utah L. Rev. 831
• Co-author, with Kenneth L. Cannon II, Germain v. Connecticut National Bank: Granfinanciera and Langenkemp Correctly Understood, Norton Bankruptcy Law Advisor, May, 1994
• Injunctions Under Revised Utah Rule of Civil Procedure 65A, Utah Bar Journal, Aug./Sept., 1991

Address

201 South Main Street
Suite 1800
Salt Lake City, UT 84111-2218

Phones

801-532-1234

Faxes

801-536-6111

Emails

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Websites

http://www.parsonsbehlelaw.com