Adama Law
Adama Law
Means Business.

Civil litigation built on strategic thinking and confident execution, forged in the toughest situations — courtrooms, boardrooms, and negotiations where the outcome is critical. We represent corporate clients, family enterprises, and individuals in complex disputes throughout Utah, with a primary practice in Salt Lake City and the greater Wasatch Front.

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

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Preparation underpins leverage. Strategy steers that leverage toward a faster, more favorable resolution.

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 with intent 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 going to be irreparable: TROs, preliminary injunctions, and expedited proceedings for situations where timing is central to 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 and circumstances justify a second look. Appellate briefing and oral argument in state and federal courts, including interlocutory and post-trial appeals from final judgments.

We know business.
We get to 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 bear.

Energy & Infrastructure

Offtake agreements, JV governance, EPC contracts, royalty disputes, and the transactions behind them when disputes arise. 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 acts of international counterparties. First-hand 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/defense, and EPC/design-build litigation. Practical understanding of project economics and milestone-driven performance structures.

Litigation managed as a business problem.

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 and collaborate with 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'll know where the case stands on an ongoing basis and what the realistic options are before significant new work commences.

3

Business-First Analysis

An MBA and over two decades in interfacing with CXO / Board level in industry means we approach damages, settlement math, and risk management the way your CFO would and your stakeholders expect. We model exposure, not just argue it. That can shift the calculus on the other side.

4

Cost Discipline

We scope work in phases with ongoing communication about resources. No runaway discovery. No motion practice for its own sake. Every dollar spent should move the case toward resolution.

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.

Erich T. Linder, Founder of Adama Law
Erich T. Linder
Founder · Attorney

Adama Law was founded on a specific premise: understanding a problem from every angle — financial, operational, reputational, human — produces stronger litigation posture and outcomes. Counsel who can read a balance sheet, understand and make sense of complex evidence, model damages from first principles, assess economics, and think about resolution the way an executive decision-maker does.

Erich T. 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, infrastructure-level 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 lead to lawsuits.

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

Education
J.D., S.J. Quinney College of Law
Global Executive MBA, INSEAD (Singapore / France / UAE)
B.A. Mathematical Economics, 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
1895 East Rodeo Walk Drive, Suite B200
Holladay, Utah 84117
By appointment

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