Adam joined the firm as a lateral Partner in 2004. Drawing upon years of experience in senior legal and legislative positions on Capitol Hill, he has successfully lobbied and provided policy and administrative law support on behalf of a number of well-known clients at local, state and federal levels of government.
Recently, Adam played a principal role in securing favorable legislative language for clients in the two biggest legislative priorities of President Obama's first term: healthcare and financial services reform. In the healthcare bill, due to a prolonged educational effort on Capitol Hill, Adam helped prevent a $150 million, full-service community hospital in Nebraska from being effectively legislated out of existence. During final negotiations over Financial Services Reform legislation, Adam helped convince negotiators to modify language that would have otherwise gutted the highly successful Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Home Loan program. The program, which veterans earned the right to participate in through their service to our country, had never been subject to the types of abuses found elsewhere in the industry. Yet without Adam's involvement, and without his client's business interest in preserving the program, Congress would have effectively, and unintentionally, ended this highly successful program.
Adam is a frequent speaker and faculty member for Continuing Legal Education programs. He has become a regular guest on 980 KMBZ-AM radio's "Week in Review" political roundtable and a frequent political commentator on WSTX-AM 970. In addition to his six years of public sector legal and legislative experience on Capitol Hill, Adam has 15 years of private sector legal and/or government relations experience.
Before joining the firm in 2004, Adam held positions including:
- Vice President and General Counsel, Wheat Government Relations, 2002-2004
- Vice President, Aon Corporation, 1999-2002
- General Counsel and Staff Director, U.S. Congressman Jim Clyburn’s Veterans Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, U.S. House of Representatives, 1997-1998
- Associate, Shughart, Thomson & Kilroy law firm, 1992-1996
- Chief Counsel, former U.S. Congressman Alan Wheat’s 1994 campaign for the U.S. Senate
- Associate Counsel, U.S. Sen. Paul Simon’s Education & Labor Subcommittee on Employment and Productivity, 1992
- Legislative Assistant, U.S. Congressman Lane Evans, 1986-1989