William E. Adams

Experience

Mr. Adams chairs the firm's Litigation Practice Group. He specializes in complex business disputes, partnership and corporate dissolutions, real estate litigation, and trademark copy right infringement litigation. Mr. Adams represents individual and business clients in state and federal court proceedings, binding and non-binding arbitration and mediation in matters involving breach of contract, fraud, statutory violations, business torts and inverse condemnation. He has also litigated environmental claims, bankruptcy adversary proceedings, partition, unlawful detainer and judgment enforcement proceedings.

Mr. Adams serves as a judge pro tem for Santa Clara Superior Court and a judicial arbitrator for Alameda Superior Court.

He served as an Extern Clerk to the Honorable Ronald S.W. Lew of the United States District Court for the Central District of California during 1989.
Education

J.D., Pepperdine University School of Law, 1990

B.A., University of California at Berkeley, 1986
Admissions

All California Courts; United States District Court (Northern, Eastern, Southern and Central Districts of California); United States Circuit Court of Appeals (Ninth Circuit)
Affiliations

Alameda County Bar Association, Board of Directors, 2008 - Present

Earl Warren Inn of Court
Speaking & Teaching Experience

California Construction Law: What to do if..., National Business Institute, San Jose, California, January 2002.

William E. Adams Partner wadams@fablaw.com