Paul Moxley

Paul T. Moxley is a shareholder with the law firm Cohne Kinghorn, P.C. Mr. Moxley has been engaged in the practice of law since 1973 and handles many types of complex matters including securities litigation, white-collar crime, products liability matters, intellectual property and a wide array of commercial litigation. He helps clients to resolve their most critical disputes.

Following law school, Paul was a law clerk to David T. Lewis who was Chief Judge of the Tenth Circuit for the United States Circuit Court. Paul Moxley was “Distinguished Lawyer of the Year” by the Utah State Bar for 2009-2010. Paul Moxley is rated “AV Preeminent” by Martindale Hubbell, which is the highest rating awarded to attorneys for professional competence and ethics. He is a past President of the Utah State Bar and the National Conference of Bar Presidents, and he has served in the House of Delegates of the American Bar Association. In 2015 the Utah State Bar recognized Mr. Moxley by naming a mentoring award after him. He was on the Board of Governors of the ABA representing four western states from 2012-2015. He is a past Chancellor of the Jackrabbit Bar Association, a group of eight State Bars from Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota and South Dakota. He is State Chair of the Utah Fellows of the American Bar Association. a group consisting of less than one-third of one percent of elite Utah lawyers. Mr. Moxley has been listed in Best Lawyers in America (commercial litigation) and has been recognized frequently among Utah’s “Legal Elite” according to Utah Business Magazine. Mr. Moxley was a member of the ABA Standing Committee on the federal judiciary for a term of three years, where he vetted potential federal judges for the country. He served as a commissioner for the Utah Judicial Conduct Commission and is a past member of the ABA Standing Committee on Judicial Independence. Paul has been a member of the Alta Town Council since 2002.

Paul has run marathons and competed in triathlons and is an avid skier and cyclist. He completed stages of the Tour de France (Alps, including Alps d’Huez to Paris) and Giro de’ Italia. He participated in bike tours and races throughout the United States including the ride around Mt. Ranier (205 miles), Logan to Jackson, (206 miles in one day), and in Europe. Mr. Moxley is interested in trekking and mountaineering and has been on mountain expeditions, including trekking peaks in the Himalayas (Manaslu, Island Peak), the Western United States (Mount Ranier and Mount Shasta), and numerous Utah peaks. He played football and ran track in college.