Perrin Robert Love is a Director at Clyde Snow. He received his juris doctor (J.D.) degree from the  University of Virginia School of Law, where he was a note & comment editor of the University of Virginia Law Review . He graduated from Yale College magna cum laude with departmental honors in English.  Mr. Love served a clerkship with Judge Francis D. Murnaghan, Jr., of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Baltimore, Maryland .

Mr. Love is a member of the Utah State Bar and the District of Columbia Bar (inactive).  He is licensed to practice before the U.S. District Court (Utah), the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United States .

Mr. Love's practice focuses on business, real property, intellectual property, and environmental litigation.  Mr. Love's business litigation experience includes antitrust claims brought under the Sherman Act and the Robinson-Patman Act (unfair competition, price fixing, price discrimination, concerted refusal to deal, horizontal and vertical restraints, and predatory conduct), intellectual property claims (trademark, trade dress, trade secret, unfair competition, and breaches of non-competition and non-disclosure agreements), and corporate, commercial, and securities litigation (insider self-dealing, minority shareholder disputes and valuation of minority shares, shareholder derivative claims, minority share valuation claims, securities fraud, RICO, and other business torts).

For more than a decade, Mr. Love has represented a major oil company and an interstate crude oil pipeline company, and other clients in connection with various environmental litigation claims (including CERCLA-Superfund claims, actions brought under the Utah State LUST Act, and the federal Oil Pollution Act).  He has represented both property owners and various condemning authorities (including an interstate natural gas utility, a water district, state agencies, and municipalities), in both state and federal eminent domain proceedings.  On behalf of many different clients, Mr. Love has litigated real estate claims involving title insurance, easements and rights of way, surveys and boundary disputes. 

Mr. Love has served as Special Assistant Attorney General on behalf of the Utah Department of Transportation in a complex eminent domain action.  He also served as Special Counsel to the Utah State Bar at trial in disbarment proceedings.

Mr. Love currently is a member of the Judicial Nominating Commission for Third District Court, and a Master of the Bench, Inns of Court (1991-Present).  He was a member of the Utah Supreme Court Advisory Committee, Rules of Civil Procedure (1991-2001), and the Executive Committee of the Salt Lake County Bar (1996-2001).  He served as co-chair of the 2002 annual convention of the Utah State Bar.

Mr. Love is also active in the Salt Lake City community. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Salt Lake City Library, and as a member of the And Justice for All Leadership Committee.  He formerly served as a member of the Salt Lake City Arts Council Executive Committee (1989 - 1997), and as a member and Chairman of Tree Utah , Board of Trustees (1991 - 1999).

Mr. Love's representative cases include:

Hentsch Henchoz & Cie v. Gubbay , 106 P.3d 718 (Utah 2005) (argued)