Randy Grimshaw is a shareholder in the Corporate and Tax department. His practice emphasizes federal, state and local tax planning; audit controversies and tax litigation; partnership, limited liability company, and corporate structuring and planning; and estate planning. Before joining Parsons Behle & Latimer, Randy was a tax accountant at Arthur Andersen & Co., an international accounting firm. He was previously licensed as a certified public accountant. Randy regularly teaches tax and business planning courses as an adjunct professor of law at the University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law.

During the Vietnam War era, Randy served as a jet fighter instructor pilot in the United States Air Force.

Related Activities and Skills:

• Martindale Hubbell - AV Rating
• Best Lawyers' 2011 Salt Lake City Tax Lawyer of the Year 
• Utah Business, Utah Top 100 Lawyers/Utah Legal Elite, Tax Law, 2005 - 2011 
• The Best Lawyers in America, Tax Law, 2007 - 2012 
• The Best Lawyers in America, 2011 Tax Lawyer of the Year
• Adjunct Professor of Law, Tax and Business Planning Courses, S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah
• Past Chair of the Tax Section, Utah State Bar
• Past Member of the Executive Board of the Tax Section, Utah State Bar
• Past Member of the Committee on Unauthorized Practice of Law, Utah State Bar
• Member of the Tax Section, American Bar Association
• Member of Real Estate and Probate Section, American Bar Association.

Published works

• Author, Chapter; Joint Tenancy and Co-Tenancy -Summary of Utah Real Property Law, Brigham Young University
• Contributing Author, Taxation of Exempt Organizations , National Business Institute, Inc.
• Author, Recodification of the Corporate Franchise Tax, 1995 Utah State Bar Annual Meeting
• Contributing Author, Seventh Annual Real Estate Tax Survey, American Bar Association
• Contributing Author, Eight Annual Real Estate Tax Survey, American Bar Association
• Contributing Author, Exempt Organizations and Charitable Activities in Utah, National Business Institute, Inc.
• Author, Having Your Cake and Eating It Too: State Taxation of Corporate Intangible Income Without Factor Representation, The State and Local Tax Lawyer, Vol. I, 1996
• Author, Reach Out and Tax Someone: State Taxation of Income From the Sale of Intangibles, Utah State Bar Journal, June/July 1995