Adama Law
Adama Law
Means Business.

Civil litigation driven by strategic thinking and confident execution, forged in the toughest situations — courtrooms, boardrooms, and negotiations where the outcome is critical. We represent businesses, families, and individuals in complex disputes in Utah state and federal courts.

Relentless. Trial-ready. Built different. We mean business.

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385-213-8800
South Jordan, Utah

Preparation wins cases. Strategy wins them faster.

Contract & Business Disputes

When a counterparty walks away from a deal, stops performing, or rewrites the terms after signing. Breach of contract, failed acquisitions, earnout disputes, and purchase agreement litigation.

Ownership & Governance

When the people who built the business together can no longer run it together. Partnership breakups, shareholder disputes, fiduciary duty claims, and business divorce.

Fraud & Business Torts

When someone lied to get the deal done or acted to destroy what you built. Fraudulent inducement, misrepresentation, tortious interference, and conversion.

Injunctions & Emergency Relief

When waiting for a trial date means the damage is already done. TROs, preliminary injunctions, and expedited proceedings for situations where timing is the entire case.

Restrictive Covenants & Trade Secrets

When a departing employee or competitor takes what isn't theirs. Non-compete enforcement and defense, non-solicitation disputes, and trade secret misappropriation under state and federal law.

Appeals

When the trial court got it wrong and the stakes justify a second look. Appellate briefing and oral argument in state and federal courts, including interlocutory and post-trial appeals.

We know your business, not just your case number.

Litigation is more effective when your counsel understands the commercial reality that produced the dispute. These are the sectors where we bring firsthand operational and transactional experience to the representation.

Energy & Infrastructure

Offtake agreements, JV governance, EPC contracts, royalty disputes, and operator/non-operator conflicts. Built on over fifteen years of experience at Aramco, Shell, and Wood Mackenzie spanning capital projects, strategy, and commercial operations.

Cross-Border & International

Governing law disputes, international arbitration, enforcement of foreign judgments, and the commercial behavior of international counterparties. Fluency in the business dynamics of the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas.

Technology & Software

SaaS disputes, licensing and IP conflicts, vendor contract failures, and partnership disputes in the tech ecosystem. Prior career includes corporate development and strategic planning roles at enterprise software companies.

Construction & Projects

Delay claims, change order disputes, lien enforcement, and EPC/design-build litigation. Practical understanding of project economics and milestone-driven performance structures.

Litigation managed like the business problem it is.

1

Your Attorney, Start to Finish

Your case is handled by the attorney you hired, not delegated down a chain. You get direct access to the person making the strategic decisions and the one who will stand up in court.

2

Strategic Assessment

Before spending a dollar on discovery, we build a complete picture of the dispute — the stakes, the dynamics, the realistic paths to resolution, and what it will take to get there. You get a written assessment before the meter starts running.

3

Business-First Analysis

An MBA and over two decades in industry means we approach damages, settlement math, and risk quantification the way your CFO would. We model exposure, not just argue it. That changes how the other side evaluates the case.

4

Cost Discipline

We scope work in phases with defined budgets. No runaway discovery. No motion practice for its own sake. Every dollar spent should move the case toward resolution, and you should be able to see that in the bill.

5

Trial-Ready From Day One

We prepare every case as if it's going to trial, because the other side can tell when you don't. That preparation creates real settlement leverage and keeps the timeline honest.

Judgment applicable to every kind of litigation.

Adama Law was founded on a specific premise: understanding a problem from every angle — financial, operational, reputational, human — produces stronger litigation. Counsel who can read a balance sheet, model damages from first principles, assess contract economics, and think about resolution the way a decision-maker thinks about risk.

Erich Linder brings over twenty-five years of professional experience to the practice, including fifteen years in the international energy industry at Saudi Aramco, Shell, and Wood Mackenzie, spanning capital projects strategy, commercial negotiations, and operations across the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas. Earlier career roles in enterprise software, corporate development, and management consulting add depth in technology, valuation, and organizational dynamics — the operational and contractual realities that drive disputes before they become lawsuits.

If that sounds like the kind of counsel you need, let's talk.

Education
J.D., S.J. Quinney College of Law
MBA, INSEAD (France / Singapore)
B.A., Pomona College
Admissions
Utah State Courts
U.S. District Court, District of Utah
Prior Experience
Spencer Fane LLP
Saudi Aramco
Shell International
Wood Mackenzie
Ellucian
FedEx
PwC
Focus Areas
Complex Commercial Litigation
Energy & Infrastructure Disputes
Cross-Border Matters
Business Divorce & Governance

Talk to us about your dispute.

Adama Law, PLLC  ·  South Jordan, Utah

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