With over twenty-five years of experience as a trial attorney, Adam specializes in litigation, white-collar defense, and sensitive internal investigations. Adam has represented clients across a range of industries, including technology, media and entertainment, food and beverage, amusement, and logistics, including several in the Fortune 200, as well as national universities, municipalities and individuals.  

As a federal prosecutor for seven years in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles, Adam served as Deputy Chief of the Office’s Government Fraud, Public Corruption and Civil Rights Section, where he supervised a wide range of criminal cases and trained federal prosecutors on trial advocacy, investigative techniques, and grand jury practice. Adam was lead counsel on multiple high-profile investigations and trials, including matters involving government fraud, corporate fraud, public corruption, organized crime, espionage, export control, tax and civil rights violations. Adam has been recognized by the Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Secret Service, Department of Defense, and Treasury Department for achieving outstanding results across a range of cases.

Before joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Adam was an Assistant District Attorney in New York City, where he served in the homicide investigations, trial, and appellate bureaus.

After leaving the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Adam was a partner at a leading national law firm, where he represented companies, board members, and executives in a wide range of matters, including securities fraud, FCPA, antitrust, RICO, and complex civil litigation.

Adam has served as lead trial counsel in more than thirty federal and state trials and argued numerous cases before both federal and state appellate courts. Adam has also represented clients before the SEC and in arbitration.

Adam’s approach to representing clients is enhanced by his business background. Adam served in several corporate leadership roles. His executive and board experience includes overseeing capital investment and fundraising, corporate and regulatory compliance matters, litigation strategy, and strategic negotiations.

Adam’s combined experience enables him to identify the key litigation and enforcement issues facing individuals and companies and translate them into actionable, goal-oriented strategy.  Moreover, Adam’s service on boards of directors and interaction with shareholders and investors, including venture capital and private equity, provide him first-hand insight into the various perspectives of the different constituencies within a business client, and the importance of accounting for those perspectives in case management and strategy.

Adam’s practice includes recent and ongoing matters concerning:

• Contract and securities litigation

• Executive, director and shareholder duties

• Employment and Employment Class Action defense litigation

• Federal criminal fraud defense

• Public corruption defense

• Internal investigations on behalf of corporations, universities and quasi-governmental entities regarding allegations of fraud, harassment and discrimination, and breaches of fiduciary duties

Adam’s extensive federal and state experience and winning trial record in both civil and criminal cases makes him a trusted resource for counsel and representation across a wide range of issues and high-stakes matters.

Adam practices in both California and New York federal and state courts.

EDUCATION
B.A., University of Pennsylvania

J.D., Cardozo School of Law
Law Review, Editor

EXPERIENCE
McDermott Will & Emery: Partner

United States Attorney's Office, Central District of California: Assistant United States Attorney, Deputy Chief of the Public Corruption, Government Fraud and Civil Rights Section

District Attorney's Office, Queens County, New York City: Assistant District Attorney

BAR ADMISSIONS
California State Bar

New York State Bar

RECENT HONORS
Lawdragons - 500 Leading Litigators in America - Complex Litigation; White Collar Defense and Internal Investigations (2024 and 2025)

Daily Journal - Top White-Collar Lawyer (2023)

Los Angeles Business Journal - Leaders of Influence: Litigators and Trial Lawyers (2024)

Recognized by Best Lawyers for Criminal Defense: White Collar (2024)