John P. Ball is a shareholder at Parsons Behle & Latimer and works in the firm’s Financial Institutions practice group and Litigation practice group. He concentrates his practice in the areas of litigation and transactions in banking, commercial law, and corporations and with mortgage service providers. He represents creditors, developers, and national and local banks in large transactions and commercial litigation. Examples of litigation include dismissal by summary judgment of five lender liability claims and receiving $44 million summary judgment for 45 participant banks on a loan guaranty. Representative clients include JP Morgan Chase N.A., BankFirst, FDIC, First Utah Bank, Pacific Western Bank, and Mountain America Credit Union. He is the past president of the Utah State Bar Banking & Finance section.
Mr. Ball graduated, cum laude, from West Virginia University with a bachelor of science in business administration concentrating in the area of finance. He worked for several years as a financial analyst with Electronic Data Systems and was later commissioned as an officer in the United States Air Force. While in the Air Force, Mr. Ball served as a navigator on the C-130 Hercules and flew missions in theaters throughout the world. In 1991, he was deployed with his squadron to the United Arab Emirates in support of the Persian Gulf War.
After leaving the Air Force, Mr. Ball graduated in 2002 from the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah. He served as a judicial intern for the Honorable Chief Justice Richard C. Howe of the Utah Supreme Court. While in law school, he served as editor-in-chief of the Utah Law Review.