Mr. Stirba focuses his practice on representing clients in complex civil and criminal litigation. Mr. Stirba is presently an Associate Adjunct Professor at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, where he has taught the Pretrial Practice course. Mr. Stirba has also been a frequent lecturer on various topics of trial and appellate advocacy including having taught civil advocacy techniques at the Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark Law School, and in numerous presentations before many organizations including the Utah State Bar and the Texas State Bar. Mr. Stirba also is one of only a handful of Utah lawyers who have had the privilege of arguing before the United States Supreme Court. He successfully argued the 2009 case of Pearson v. Callahan, which was a unanimous decision in his clients’ favor. That case established important precedent concerning the defense of qualified immunity in federal civil rights litigation. Since the decision in 2009, the Pearson decision had been cited in case law over 13,000 times.
