Adam Berger represents individuals who have suffered wrongful death or serious personal injury due to medical malpractice and other causes; employment class actions for wage and hour violations, and consumer class actions arising from deceptive advertising and unfair business practices.
Background and Experience
Adam has been an attorney with Schroeter Goldmark& Bender since 1999. Prior to joining the firm, he was an attorney with the non-profit law firm Earthjustice for more than eight years, representing clients in environmental lawsuits throughout the Pacific Northwest. Adam has volunteered as an attorney with the World Wildlife Fund in Vietnam, has been a frequent instructor at National Institute for Trial Advocacy workshops in Seattle, and was a law clerk for the Honorable Mark L. Wolf of the federal district court for Massachusetts. He obtained his J.D. from Yale Law School and his bachelor’s degree magna cum laude from Harvard College.
Accolades
Along with three other SGB attorneys, Adam represented the Governor of Washington on a pro bono basis in litigation defending the constitutionality of federal health care reform, an effort for which the SGB attorneys received the Washington State Bar Association’s Award of Merit. Adam and his partners also successfully defended the Washington Department of Labor & Industries’ increase in the State minimum wage in 2011. Adam was profiled in a chapter of Alan B. Morrison & Diane T. Chin, Beyond the Big Firm: Profiles of Lawyers Who Want Something More (2007), and has been named a Washington Super Lawyer since 2004.
Professional and Civic Involvement
- Member, American Association for Justice and Washington State Association for Justice
- National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) Instructor
- Northwest Consumer Law Center, Board Member (2013-present)
- Sacajawea Elementary PTA, Executive Committee (2007-2010)
- William L. Dwyer American Inn of Courts, Executive Committee (2005-2007)
- Washington Environmental Council, Board Member (2001-2007)
- Washington Trout Conservation Award for Professional Excellence, 1998
- Speaker at numerous continuing legal education seminars on wage and hour law, class actions, and wrongful death cases
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