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
- Private Company Strategies: Partnership Disputes and Business Divorces [PODCAST] - (Posted On Monday, January 23, 2023)
- FinCEN Issues Final Rules & Regulations for CTA - (Posted On Wednesday, October 12, 2022)
- Attorney-Client Privilege Issues: Illinois Corporations and Other Jurisdictions - (Posted On Wednesday, May 25, 2022)
- Attorney-Client Privilege Issues: Three Ways Companies Can Shield Privileged Communications From Their Directors - (Posted On Wednesday, May 04, 2022)
- Attorney-Client Privilege Issues: When Directors Can Access Privileged Corporate Records - (Posted On Wednesday, April 27, 2022)
- When Do Minority Shareholders Owe Fiduciary Duties? What Jurisdictions Across the Country Say - (Posted On Tuesday, April 12, 2022)
- Crime-Fraud Exception to Attorney-Client Privilege Applies to Trump’s Attempt to Overturn Election - (Posted On Wednesday, March 30, 2022)
- Big Lie Could Mean Big Trouble for Fox News in Defamation Case - (Posted On Tuesday, March 15, 2022)
- Minority Shareholders and Their Fiduciary Duties: Other Jurisdictions - (Posted On Tuesday, January 11, 2022)
- Two Common Threshold Issues in LLC Ownership Disputes: Choice of Law and Subject Matter Jurisdiction - (Posted On Friday, October 22, 2021)
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.