Adam is a Director and the Chair of McLane Middleton’s Administrative Law Department where he has been a practicing attorney for over 15 years.  Adam’s practice focuses on environmental and energy issues, where he assists clients in matters involving environmental permitting and compliance counseling, energy facility siting, and defense of enforcement actions.

Adam helps businesses, municipalities, and individuals navigate the intricacies and complexities of federal, State, and local environmental laws and regulations, including, the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, Comprehensive Environmental Responsibility, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), Federal Power Act, Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act (EPCRA), Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OSHA).  Adam has been at the forefront of the ever-developing regulations regarding emerging contaminants, including PFAS.  Adam also defends national, regional, and local clients facing administrative or civil enforcement actions and citizen suits.

Adam received his J.D. from Vermont Law School, magna cum laude, and B.A. from Providence College. While in law school, he served as an article editor on the Vermont Law Review and was a Judicial Intern for the Honorable Peter W. Hall of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Additionally, Adam was a Legal Intern for the United States Environmental Protection Agency in Region 1 and the Environmental Protection Unit of the Office of the Vermont Attorney General.

Before joining McLane Middleton, Adam served as an Assistant District Attorney for the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office in Boston, Massachusetts and was a judicial law clerk for the New Hampshire Superior Courts. Prior to law school, Adam was an environmental claims adjuster for Travelers Insurance.