ArentFox Schiff

Complex Litigation

Partner

Adam helps clients resolve disputes involving: ownership and control of privately held businesses, including derivative and direct claims, breach of fiduciary duty claims, requests to inspect books and records, and breach of shareholder agreements and LLC agreements; sports, media, and entertainment law; restrictive covenants (noncompete and nonsolicitation agreements), trade secrets, and confidential information; and business torts and complex contract claims.

His experience also includes drafting restrictive covenant agreements, representing professional associations, Freedom of Information Act requests, student discipline hearings, professional liability (malpractice) claims, trust and estate litigation, and animal law.

Adam strives to understand each client’s business to help advance their legal and business interests. He helps his clients solve problems through advice and counseling, mediation, arbitration, and litigation in state and federal courts. He has experience representing plaintiffs and defendants at all stages of litigation, from temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions to summary judgment, arbitration hearings, bench and jury trials, and appeal.

Before beginning his law career, Adam taught fourth grade as a Teach For America corps member.

Member, Board of Directors of Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law American Bar Association Chicago Bar Association

University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, JD, California Law Review, Member Order of the Coif, 2011 University of Wisconsin-Madison, BA, Political Science and History, with comprehensive honors, 2006