Adam is a problem-solver. He focuses his practice on resolving disputes involving ownership and control of privately held businesses, restrictive covenants, business torts, and complex contract claims.
Adam helps clients resolve disputes involving:
- ownership and control of privately held businesses, including derivative and direct claims, breach of fiduciary duty claims, requests to inspect books and records, and breach of shareholder agreements and LLC agreements;
- sports, media, and entertainment law;
- restrictive covenants (noncompete and nonsolicitation agreements), trade secrets, and confidential information; and
- business torts and complex contract claims.
His experience also includes drafting restrictive covenant agreements, representing professional associations, Freedom of Information Act requests, student discipline hearings, professional liability (malpractice) claims, trust and estate litigation, and animal law.
Adam strives to understand each client’s business to help advance their legal and business interests. He helps his clients solve problems through advice and counseling, mediation, arbitration, and litigation in state and federal courts. He has experience representing plaintiffs and defendants at all stages of litigation, from temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions to summary judgment, arbitration hearings, bench and jury trials, and appeal.
Before beginning his law career, Adam taught fourth grade as a Teach For America corps member.
More Legal and Business Bylines From Adam Diederich
- Death, Disability, Divorce, and Disputes: Know What Your Key Documents Dictate in the Event of a Crisis - (Posted On Tuesday, July 18, 2023)
- Minority Business Owners and Trust Beneficiaries May Be Able to Obtain Otherwise Privileged Documents - (Posted On Tuesday, July 18, 2023)
- The Corporate Transparency Act: What Family Offices Need to Know - (Posted On Friday, June 09, 2023)
- The Corporate Transparency Act [PODCAST] - (Posted On Friday, May 12, 2023)
- Sliding Into Your DMs With a Court Summons - (Posted On Monday, May 01, 2023)
- Minority Owners May Be Able to Obtain Privileged Company Documents in Ownership Disputes - (Posted On Thursday, April 27, 2023)
- Hot Topics in Estate Planning for Owners of Private Companies - Part 2 [PODCAST] - (Posted On Thursday, April 27, 2023)
- Big Lie Means Big Payout in Defamation Lawsuit Against Fox News - (Posted On Friday, April 21, 2023)
- Hot Topics in Estate Planning for Owners of Private Companies - Part 1 [Podcast] - (Posted On Thursday, April 20, 2023)
- Private Company Strategies: Partnership Disputes and Business Divorces [PODCAST] - (Posted On Monday, January 23, 2023)
The National Law Review names ArentFox Schiff LLP a Go-To Thought Leader in the field of Election Law. In March of 2022, authors Adam Diederich and Kirstie Brenson authored the article “Big Lie Could Mean Big Trouble for Fox News in Defamation Case,” which discusses at length Smartmatic’s defamation lawsuit against Fox News for its coverage of Donald Trump’s “Big Lie.” The article gained significant traction for its timeliness and thorough coverage, and is but one example of the firm’s outstanding thought leadership.