Adam Cashman

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Adam Cashman is a leading trial lawyer and Partner at BraunHagey & Borden LLP. His practice focuses on high-stakes complex commercial disputes and intellectual property litigation. He has represented Fortune 500 companies, innovative start-ups, and individual clients in a broad range of industries and technologies, including structured finance and derivatives cases; trade secret, patent, and trademark disputes; insolvency, bankruptcy, and accounting malpractice matters; consumer class action defense cases; and litigation involving real estate partnerships, investment funds, and cryptocurrencies (among many others).

Adam was named Daily Journal's Top IP Lawyers (2024 and 2025), Daily Journal's Top Trade Secrets Lawyer (2022, 2023, 2024), Northern California Super Lawyer, and Chambers and Partners IP ranked (2024 and 2025). In 2022, Adam was featured in the Daily Journal and recognized by The American Lawyer for the complete jury trial victory he achieved on behalf of Eventbrite. The verdict was featured in the Daily Journal’s “Verdicts and Settlements” feature and landed Adam first runner up in Law.com’s “Litigator of the Week” feature.

Adam is active in the Bay Area legal community and serves on the Board of the Jewish Bar Association of San Francisco. He previously represented the African American Environmental Association in a pro bono capacity as amici in the New York Court of Appeals in a high-profile matter involving the licensing and decommissioning of a nuclear power plant in New York.

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