Adam Wolfson

Practice Areas

Adam Wolfson is a partner in Quinn Emanuel’s San Francisco and Los Angeles offices, where he serves as Chair of the firm’s Plaintiff’s Litigation Practice. His work, however, focuses on both plaintiff and defense-side representations, in a wide variety of high-stakes complex commercial and intellectual property disputes. As lead counsel, Adam has tried multiple cases to verdict, and he has extensive experience in all types of complex litigation, with a particular focus in cases involving antitrust law, products liability, class actions, unfair competition, trade secret misappropriation, and patent and copyright infringement.

Adam is Co-Leader of the firm’s Tariff Refund Task Force, advising clients on potential refund rights both prior to and following the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Learning Resources Inc. v. Trump.

To date, Adam has helped our clients obtain more than $15 billion in recoveries, stemming from both trial verdicts and settlements. On the defense side, he has helped our clients avoid liability for multiples of that number.

Adam currently serves on the Board of Visitors for UCLA’s Political Science Department and regularly publishes on issues related to trial practice and the areas of law in which he practices. He has been recognized by Chambers and Partners in its Antitrust categories at both the National and California levels, and has been named both a Rising Star and MVP in class actions by national legal journal Law360, a Future Star by Benchmark Litigation, one of the top 500 plaintiffs’ attorneys in the nation by Lawdragon, as a Recommended Lawyer in the Antitrust Litigation category by Legal 500 USA, and as one the top Antitrust Lawyers in California by the Daily Journal.