Adam Alba is an associate at Magleby Cataxinos & Greenwood whose practice consists of complex commercial litigation and white collar criminal defense in state and federal courts.

Mr. Alba has been practicing as a trial attorney since graduating from law school, and has obtained favorable results for his clients at jury trials and with motions before the court. For example, in 2014 Mr. Alba prevailed on a motion for summary judgment in federal court which effectively dismissed all claims against his client in a suit for employment discrimination and other related claims. Additionally, before Joining Magleby Cataxinos & Greenwood, Mr. Alba was a trial attorney with the Salt Lake Legal Defender Association where he chaired more than twenty jury trials and obtained not guilty verdicts and dismissals in all types of criminal cases.

Mr. Alba graduated from the University of Utah in 2006 with a degree in philosophy. He obtained his J.D. from The George Washington University Law School in 2010 where he attended on full scholarship. While in law school, Mr. Alba clerked in the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice. Mr. Alba was also a member of the Moot Court Board and the Journal for the American Intellectual Property Law Association.

Mr. Alba is active in the legal community. He has served on the boards of the Young Lawyers Division, the Utah Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and the Utah Minority Bar Association. He is currently serving as a member of the Advisory Committee on the Utah Rules of Evidence. Recently, Mr. Alba was voted by his peers throughout the state as one of Utah’s 2017 "Legal Elite," as published in Utah Business Magazine.