Parsons Behle & Latimer

Alan Mouritsen leads the firm’s appellate practice group. His practice focuses on civil and criminal appeals in state and federal appellate courts. He also assists clients with all aspects of appellate preservation, including drafting and arguing motions to dismiss, motions for summary judgment and trial-related motions.

Capabilities

Biography

Alan Mouritsen is a member of the firm’s litigation practice group and concentrates his practice on appeals, constitutional law, administrative law and securities litigation.

As part of his appellate practice, Mr. Mouritsen has written briefs in the Tenth Circuit, the Ninth Circuit, the Eighth Circuit, the Sixth Circuit, the Second Circuit, the Utah Supreme Court and the Utah Court of Appeals. He has argued before the Tenth Circuit, the Utah Supreme Court and the Utah Court of Appeals. He served two terms as a member of the Advisory Committee for the Utah Rules of Appellate Procedure and is a member of the CJA panel for the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

Mr. Mouritsen grew up in, and recently returned to, Grantsville, Utah, where he currently serves as a member of the Tooele County Board of Education. He received his bachelor's degree cum laude from Pomona College. He graduated with distinction from Stanford Law School, where he was an articles editor on the Stanford Law Review and a member of the Stanford Supreme Court Litigation Clinic. Following graduation, Mr. Mouritsen clerked for Judge Jay S. Bybee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Experience

Bad Faith Insurance Prosecution

Obtained a jury verdict for a plastic surgeon client in a lawsuit against his insurance carrier for breach of the duty of good faith, then won on cross-appeal the right to pursue a punitive damages claim on his behalf. his medical malpractice insurer.

Nichols v. Jacobsen Construction Co., 2016 UT 9, 374 P.3d 3

On an issue of first impression in Utah, persuaded Utah Supreme Court in Nichols v. Jacobsen Construction Co., 2016 UT 9, 374 P.3d 3, that general contractor’s contractor-controlled insurance program entitled the contractor to immunity from injured worker’s tort suit under Utah law.

Barneck v. UDOT, 2015 UT 50, 353 P.3d 140

In Barneck v. UDOT, 2015 UT 50, 353 P.3d 140, we represented injured parties in case in which court held that “management of flood waters” exception in the Governmental Immunity Act did not apply to UDOT’s handling of a plugged culvert that resulted in a collapsed road.

Accomplishments

Academic

Stanford Law School (2009)

Articles Editor, Stanford Law Review

Pomona College (2006)

Phi Beta Kappa

Conversant in Russian

Professional

Mountain States Super Lawyers, Appellate, 2019-present

Utah Legal Elite: Civil Litigation, 2021; Up & Coming, 2020

Associations

Professional

Tooele County Board of Education
Member

Advisory Committee for the Utah Rules of Appellate Procedure
Member

American Bar Association

Salt Lake County Bar Association

Insights

Utah Business Magazine Names 20 Parsons Behle & Latimer Attorneys as Utah’s Legal Elite

Credentials

Licensed

U.S. Dist. Court, Dist. of Utah

Utah

U.S. Court of Appeals, 10th Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit

Education

Stanford Law School