Overview
With over 20 years of litigation experience, Adam has successfully litigated and tried high-exposure and high-profile cases throughout the United States. His practice covers a broad spectrum of defense litigation, including product liability, pharmaceuticals & medical devices, and professional liability and healthcare litigation, among various business disputes.
- American Bar Association
- Products Liability Committee, Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section, Vice-Chair, 2023-2025
- Missouri Lawyers Weekly, “Up and Coming Attorneys”
- The Kansas City Business Journal, “Best of the Bar”
- Product Liability; Commercial Litigation
- Inn Master for the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association, Ross T. Roberts Inn of Court Program
- Inn Master for the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law
- Successfully defended in excess of one hundred high-exposure corporate cases around the United States
- Successfully negotiated settlements and dismissals in mediations and settlement conferences in complex litigation
- Taken hundreds of complex depositions of various parties, engineers, health care providers and expert witnesses
- Defended complex corporate representative depositions of key employees
- Represented clients in complex federal multi-district litigation
- Obtained summary judgment for automotive product manufacturers and medical device manufacturers
- Represented clients in complex punitive damages cases, including obtaining relief from a punitive award post-trial
- Works with various jury consultants including with mock trials and other jury research
- Defended high-document cases involving millions of client documents produced during the litigation
- Provided counseling and training to in-house counsel on management of litigation portfolios
- Provided counseling to manufacturers for drafting of product documents including warnings and disclosures
- Provided counseling to manufacturers and distributors for industry risk assessment
