Mr. Adams is a partner in Rutan & Tucker’s Trial Department. His practice focuses on business and intellectual property litigation, with particular emphasis on trade secrets, trademark and copyright infringement, fraud, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, unfair competition, defamation and other business torts. He also has substantial experience defending construction defect and product liability claims.

Mr. Adams has tried more than a dozen cases to jury verdict. Most recently, he obtained a complete defense verdict for his client in an action in which plaintiff sought $2.5M in compensatory damages, plus punitives. In addition to his trial practice, Mr. Adams represents clients in various forms of alternative dispute resolution, including arbitrations, mediations and statutory prelitigation dispute resolution procedures such as SB 800.

REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS

• Representation of Internet Service Provider in case alleging domain name conversion.
• Representation of national organization prosecuting trademark infringement claims.
• Representation of various technology companies prosecuting and defending claims for trade secret misappropriation and unfair competition.
• Representation of homebuilder in claims brought against joint venture partner for breach of contract.
• Representation of real estate LLC manager against claims brought by members alleging fraud and breach of fiduciary duty.
• Representation of digital media distribution company with respect to claims alleging breach of warranty and fraud.
• Representation of various building materials manufacturers against construction defect and product liability claims.
• Representation of e-commerce company against claims for violation of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act and Stored Communications Act.
• Representation of mortgage client against insurer to obtain coverage for claims alleging violation of the Telephone Communications Privacy Act.
• Representation of technology company in patent mismarking and patent infringement actions.

PUBLICATIONS

• “Truncated Proof” Class Actions & Derivative Suits, American Bar Association, Spring 2000
• “Using Statistics to Circumvent Evidentiary Problems” Daily Journal, August 6, 1999

PRACTICE GROUPS

• Business Litigation
• Intellectual Property/Technology

EDUCATION

• Stanford Law School (J.D. 1996)
• University of California at Santa Cruz (B.A. 1993 with honors)

MEMBERSHIPS/ADMISSIONS

• California Supreme Court
• U.S. District Courts for the Central, Northern and Southern Districts of California
• State Bar of California