Biography
Mr. Adams focuses his practice on advising and defending health care providers in matters involving patient care issues and other unique issues confronting risk managers. His guidance, whether during a strategic discussion or during a crisis, is based on his extensive trial and agency adjudication experience. Mr. Adams’ clients include physicians, hospitals, managed care organizations, medical colleges, nursing homes, self-insured health systems and other health care providers. He has spent over twenty-five years defending health care providers and has taken over seventy medical malpractice matters to verdict. Most of those matters involved catastrophic injury or death. He also represents health care providers before various boards of the Virginia Department of Health Professions.
Mr. Adams frequently lectures on bioethics, clinical research regulation, mental health law, medical record management, and risk management to such groups as the American College of Surgeons, American Society of Risk Management, Virginia Health Care Association, and VCU/Medical College of Virginia departmental grand rounds.
Legal Experience
- LeClairRyan, Richmond, Virginia, 1996 – present
- Wright, Robinson, McCammon, Osthimer & Tatum, Richmond, Virginia, 1991 – 1996
- Lord Bissell & Brook, Chicago, Illinois, 1985 – 1991
Memberships and Affiliations
- Defense Research Institute
- Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys
- American Health Lawyers Association
- American Bar Association: Co-chairman, Subcommittee on Medical Ethics
- Virginia State Bar Association
Distinctions
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Listed among The Best Lawyers in America® in Medical Malpractice Law - Defendants
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AV Rating, Martindale-Hubbell
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Listed in Virginia Business magazine's "Legal Elite" in Health Law from 2003 to present
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Matters listed in Virginia Lawyer’s Weekly top ten "Biggest Defense Verdicts" in 2003 to present
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Listed by Law & Politics magazine as a Virginia "Super Lawyer" in 2007 to present
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National Board of Trial Advocacy, Civil Trial Advocacy Certificate*
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Rotary International Graduate Scholar, 1981-1982
*There is no procedure in the Commonwealth of Virginia for approving certifying organizations. Rule 7.4(d)
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Education
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J.D., University of Illinois College of Law, 1985
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LL.M., Forensic Medicine, University of Glasgow Faculty of Law, 1983
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B.A., Political Science, with highest honors, Millikin University, 1981
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