Adam Hoeflich

Adam Hoeflich has a national reputation as a courtroom lawyer and strategic advisor to public and private companies and prominent individuals facing complex challenges both within and outside of the litigation process. In the courtroom, Adam has been lead counsel in high-profile individual cases and in multi-jurisdiction litigation, with the unifying factor among diverse subject matters being the significance and complexity of the issues. Outside the courtroom, Adam has advised corporations, executives, and individuals on their most important matters, ranging from personal disputes affecting families and privately held companies to complex commercial issues that domestic and international companies or individuals sought to resolve without publicity and/or litigation.

Adam's accomplishments have been broadly recognized. Chambers and Partners noted his "expertise handling sophisticated litigation matters across diverse areas such as securities, insurance and product liability," referred to him as a "force in multidistrict litigation," and quoted sources calling him a "phenomenal strategist" and a "go-to legal mind on complicated litigation." Benchmark Litigation has listed him as a national "litigation star." And LMG Life Sciences has stated that Adam "is thought of by peers as 'a master courtroom strategist.'"

Adam's practice benefits from his deep understanding of complex litigation and legal ethics. Adam is a Professor of Practice at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and previously was a Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School. Adam is an elected member of the American Law Institute (ALI).

Active in the civic community, Adam is Chair of the Civic Federation Board of Trustees, a Trustee of Northwestern University, a member of the Northwestern Memorial Hospital Quality Committee, and a member of both the Commercial Club and the Economic Club.

After graduating first in his class from the University of Illinois College of Law, where he was Articles Editor of the Law Review, Adam clerked for Honorable Thomas J. Meskill on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Honorable Milton I. Shadur on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Adam joined Bartlit Beck in 1994 and became a partner in 1997.