About Dan Witte

In June 2014, Dan became an equity member of Pearson Butler, where he provides a wide range of legal support, including general counsel services for mid-sized businesses, entrepreneurs, and small businesses needing legal support but lacking full-time in-house counsel. He collaborates with other firm specialists to provide a range of support in relation to business planning, financial planning, business formation, business transactions, leases, property issues, fraud, probate resolution, interstate commerce regulation, government regulatory enforcement resolution, non-competition agreements, intellectual property disputes, tax issues, and family/domestic law.

Dan also litigates as needed on behalf of the firm’s clients. Dan has over twenty years of litigation experience in numerous federal and state jurisdictions before administrative tribunals as well as various trial and appellate courts. In many instances, these efforts have involved sensitive, confidential matters for various high-profile companies, most of which are subject to strict confidentiality restrictions. Some of Dan’s recent publicly disclosed successes include a $23.4 million dollar fraud judgment secured in Jameson Stanford Resources Corp. v. Stanford (Utah 5th Dist. Ct. 2014), and drafting the successful brief for Veysey v. Nelson, 2017 UT App 77, cert. denied, 397 P.3d 846 (Utah 2017).

From 2009-2014, Dan worked for McCormick Barstow LLP, focusing on complex fraud, business emergency, intellectual property, and complex insurance matters in locations such as San Francisco, Los Angeles, Sacramento, Seattle, and Salt Lake City. He investigated, litigated, and/or settled numerous highly sensitive and confidential difficulties for clients, including the prosecution of multi-million dollar disputes on behalf of some of the largest companies in the world.

Dan believes that attorneys have a responsibility to remember that they are often helping clients with the most important unresolved issues in each client’s life, regardless of the client’s wealth or societal status. The most satisfying professional moments come when Dan sees clients secure satisfying outcomes for their crucial transactions or disputes and then move forward.