Experience Off- Course.
The most consequential matters rarely fit neatly within a single area of law. Adam Sanders brings experience across military leadership, federal prosecution, litigation, corporate counsel, and institutional governance, providing perspective shaped by an unconventional professional path.
Areas of Expertise
Our experience extends across litigation, transactions, governance, investigations, and matters that rarely fit into a single legal category. Explore selected areas below to understand the perspective Adam Sanders brings to complex situations.
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Adam served as a Special Assistant United States Attorney, leading federal criminal matters through trials, grand jury proceedings, sentencing, and other stages of prosecution. His work also included rebuilding prosecution processes and developing a felony prosecution program to address a jurisdictional gap.
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Adam has led counsel teams in contested estate and trust matters, including will contests, fiduciary disputes, and related litigation. His experience includes resolving complex probate questions while navigating the interests of multiple beneficiaries.
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Adam has represented companies and owners in disputes involving governance, member relationships, derivative claims, and collection matters involving complex corporate structures.
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As interim Chief of Contracts and Fiscal Law for a major Army command, Adam advised leaders responsible for a multibillion-dollar annual budget on acquisition strategy, fiscal compliance, contract disputes, investigations, and remediation.
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Adam has served as a church elder, board chair, and legal advisor on matters involving organizational formation, leadership succession, property transactions, fundraising, internal investigations, church judicial processes, and child-protection systems.
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Adam's fiduciary litigation background informs his approach to estate planning and administration. His experience includes probate matters and preparing more than 1,000 estate-planning documents, including wills, powers of attorney, healthcare directives, and trusts.
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Adam has advised through urgent, high-stakes situations that cut across legal disciplines, including organizational disputes, investigations, threatened litigation, regulatory issues, and sensitive institutional decisions. He brings a coordinated, strategic perspective when the problem is larger than a single practice area.
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Adam's military legal experience includes courts-martial, commander advice, administrative boards and investigations, and successful petitions to the Army Board for Correction of Military Records.
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Adam has represented an agency before the EEOC and negotiated resolutions of employment disputes involving former employees.
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As deputy chief of administrative and civil law for a major Army command, Adam worked extensively with the drafting, interpretation, and application of policies and regulations.
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Adam has handled a wide range of transactions and agreements involving real estate, services, intellectual property, and dispute resolution, including matters requiring unusually tailored terms.
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Adam served as legal advisor on a high-profile Army Reserve investigation involving overlapping criminal, civil, administrative, employment, information, and oversight issues. He also oversaw administrative investigations and trained attorneys and investigating officers.
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Adam has advised on matters involving security clearances, military administration, and criminal proceedings with national security implications, including helping service members pursue restoration of revoked clearances.
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Adam has advised on business formation, acquisition, and reorganization, with attention to governance, ownership structures, and long-term business objectives.
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As in-house general counsel for a closely held corporation, Adam developed legal strategies spanning corporate matters, employment, contracts, intellectual property, data privacy, technology, education, religious freedom, and disputes, always in the context of business decisions.
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Adam has handled nuanced property matters, including commercial dispositions, land acquisitions involving fiduciary concerns, and utility easements.
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Adam has litigated property access and easement disputes, including obtaining an easement by necessity at trial for a landlocked parcel.
*These are areas of experience, not a representation that the firm accepts every matter in each category.
Deliberate by Design.
The firm approaches each engagement with care, valuing preparation, candor, discretion, and the trust that develops through meaningful professional relationships.
The measure of counsel is not the volume of matters undertaken, but the quality of judgment brought to those that are.

