Utah Trial & Appellate Lawyer Profile

Trial and appellate lawyer with experience acting as lead counsel from case inception to jury verdict and through appellate process as necessary. Areas of practice include personal injury, wrongful death, catastrophic injury, trucking, products liability, medical malpractice, and, appellate practice. Regularly invited speaker/lecturer multiple CLEs.

Experience – Employment

Eisenberg Lowrance Lundell Lofgren – 2021-Present: Of-counsel, trial lawyer. Wrongful death/catastrophic injury in products liability, trucking, auto, and, medical malpractice cases.

Dewsnup / King / Olsen / Worel – 2015-2021: Shareholder, trial lawyer. Wrongful death/catastrophic injury in products liability, trucking, auto, and, medical malpractice cases.

Law Offices of Peter W. Summerill – 2014-2015: Wrongful death, medical malpractice, civil rights, governmental immunity claims, products liability, auto accident, and appellate work.

Hasenyager & Summerill — 2000-2014: Partner. Medical malpractice, civil rights, governmental immunity claims, products liability, auto accident, and appellate work.

Solo Practitioner — 1998-2000: Personal injury, minor criminal, intellectual property, small business, family law.

Experience – Trial (25+ cases tried to verdict; example cases).

Farris v. SLRMC et. al., Third District, Salt Lake City

Wrongful death, medical malpractice.

Krambule v. IHC, Second District, Ogden City

Narcotics over-prescribed, wrongful death, medical malpractice.

Iverson v. State of Utah, Utah Department of Transportation

Faulty road design, head on collision, double wrongful death.

Miller v. Ogden City, d.b.a. Mt. Ogden Golf Course, Second District, Ogden City
Golf cart rollover, premises liability case.. 

Appellate (18+ appellate cases; examples).

Archuleta v. St. Mark’s Hospital, 2010 UT 36, 238 P.3d 1044
Medical malpractice. Established negligent credentialing as cause of action, overturning trial court dismissal. 

Bybee v. Abdulla, 2008 UT 35, 189 P.3d 40
Medical malpractice Arbitration agreement unenforceable in medical malpractice wrongful death case.

Dexter v. Bosko et. al., 2008 UT 29, 184 P.3d 592
Unreasonably harsh treatment, unnecessary exposure to increased risk of serious harm violates inmate rights.

Spackman v. Board of Education, Box Elder County et. al., 2000 UT 87, 16 P.3d 533.
Establishing Utah Constitution’s Due Process and Education clauses as self-executing rights. 

Professional/Speaking/Publishing

Utah Supreme Court – Ethics and Discipline Committee, 2006-2012 (Member)
Utah Supreme Court – Advisory Committee on Model Utah Jury Instructions (Member)

Utah State Bar – Office of Professional Conduct Ethics School – 2014-2019 (Invited Speaker)

Utah Association for Justice – Technology, Strategy, Trial, Civil Procedure (Regularly Invited Speaker)

Utah Bar Journal/Utah Trial Journal – 15+ articles published; recurring columnist on civil procedure.

Education

University of Utah — Juris Doctorate
University of Utah — Bachelor of Science, Philosophy
Weber State University – Associates Degree, General

Let’s get to work.