Adam E. Lang, Partner at our Phoenix law office
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Adam E. Lang

Partner
Biography

Adam Lang has a varied general and complex commercial litigation practice. Adam is a seasoned litigator and trusted advisor whose practice spans the full spectrum of complex commercial disputes and strategic legal counsel. He is a co-chair of the firm’s Litigation, Investigations, and Trials (LIT) Practice Group. Adam supports clients navigating high-stakes challenges across a range of industries including real estate development and commercial tenancies, financial, mortgage, and lending services, insurance, credit reporting agencies, professional services, and technology. He routinely defends national mortgage companies, banks, real estate developers, landholders, commercial landlords and tenants, businesses and business owners, and individuals in matters involving partnership divorces, fiduciary duty claims, defamation, trade secret misappropriation, restrictive covenant violations, contract and fraud disputes, easement and use restrictions, and federal statutory claims. Adam’s experience ranges from assisting clients with business formation, engaging in pre-litigation solutions, and in extensive litigation towards resolution and trial. He also has ample experience in a wide array of internal investigations and regulatory enforcement actions on local, state, and federal levels.

Credentials

Bar Admissions

  • Arizona


Court Admissions

  • Supreme Court of Arizona
  • United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
  • United States District Court, District of Arizona
  • United States District Court, District of Colorado
  • United States District Court, Eastern District of Michigan
  • United States District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania
  • United States District Court, Western District of Michigan


Education

  • University of California at Los Angeles, School of Law (J.D.)
    • Co-Chief Submissions Editor, UCLA Entertainment Law Review
  • University of California at Los Angeles, School of Public Policy and Social Research (M.P.P., Public Policy, Health Care Policy Concentration)
  • Washington University in St. Louis (B.A., Psychology, summa cum laude, and Political Economy)
Experience

Awards & Recognition

  • Top Lawyers, Phoenix Magazine (2025)
  • The Best Lawyers in America®, Commercial Litigation (2019-2026)
  • Snell & Wilmer COACH Award (2023)
  • AZ Business Leader, AZ Business Leaders Magazine (2020)
  • Southwest Super Lawyers®, Business Litigation (2017-2022, 2024-2025)
    • Top 50 Attorneys (2024-2025)
    • Rising Stars Edition (2012-2016)
  • 40 Under 40, Phoenix Business Journal (2015)
  • Arizona’s Finest Lawyers

Representative Matters

Real Estate and Banking Litigation

  • Represented professional sports franchise in complex arena management and lease dispute
  • Advised cell tower company and wireless carriers in multiple lease and easement disputes with landowners
  • Defended and prosecuted matter on behalf of commercial property owner on sophisticated issues relating to wrongful recordation and quiet title claims
  • Represented homeowners in complex egress/ingress easement disputes and engaged municipality and third-party neighbors in working on a successful solution benefitting all parties involved
  • Represented 100-plus unit apartment complex owner in $25 million dispute over ownership of complex
  • Advocated for mobile home park owner in dispute relating to Schedule B exceptions
  • Represented banking institution in complex and sophisticated matters relating to alleged Ponzi scheme
  • Defended banking institution in matters involving the Fair Credit Reporting Act, Telephone Consumer Protection Act, Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act, the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, the Truth-in-Lending Act, various trade practices acts, customer fraud and conversion, chargebacks, and breaches of banking policy

Professional Malpractice

  • Defended law firms in matters relating to advice provided on issuing securities, sophisticated Ponzi scheme issues, and on bankruptcy estate recoveries
  • Represented national accounting firm in eight-figure arbitration relating to audit and actuarial services rendered for insurance company
  • Defended national accounting and actuarial firm relating to ERISA advice provided in the administration of pension and profitsharing plans

Electronic Discovery

  • Defended real estate company in matter arising out of sanctions stemming from the company’s response to subpoenas for electronically stored information
  • Managed the electronic discovery life cycle, including preservation, retention, collection, storage, search terminology, review, and production of electronic discovery, in several cases involving voluminous electronically stored information
  • Advised multiple clients on implementing electronic discovery policies, procedures, protocols, and best practices

Governmental Investigations

  • Advised corporation in multiple FBI investigations and subpoenas
  • Represented various national companies in SEC investigations
  • Represented company in allegations and investigations relating to voter fraud

Election and Political Law

  • Advised trade associations on matters including contribution solicitations, formation of PACs, ability of 501(c) organizations to engage in the political process, lobbying limits of elected officials, and conflict of interest concerns
  • Assisted political candidates on rules and laws relating to petitions, ballots, electioneering, and Clean Election issues
  • Litigated multiple referenda, initiative, and candidate-related matters in court and in front of the Federal Election Commission

Previous Professional Experience

  • United States District Court, Central District of California, Judicial Extern to Hon. J. Spencer Letts

Professional Memberships and Activities

  • American Bar Association
    • Business Law Section
    • Litigation Section
  • State Bar of Arizona
    • Business Law Section
    • Trial Practice Section
  • Maricopa County Bar Association
  • American Association of Justice
  • International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP)
  • Member of Central Arizona Estate Planning Council

Community Involvement

  • St. Joseph The Worker, Board of Directors (Present)
  • City of Phoenix, Audit Committee (2023-present)
  • Arizona Coyotes Foundation, Board of Directors (2018-2024)
  • Valley Leadership Institute, Class 38 (2016-2017)
  • Global Shapers Phoenix, Advisory Council (2016-present)
  • All Saints Episcopal Day School Tiger Dads Club
    • Charity Golf Tournament Chair (2016-2017)
  • Washington University in St. Louis, Alumni and Parents Admission Program (APAP)
  • Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (2009), Arizona’s Finest Couple and Spirit Award
  • New Pathways for Youth, Emeritus Council, Past-Chairman of Board
  • National Brain Tumor Society, Phoenix Brain Tumor Walk, Past Co-Chairman
  • Arizona Association of Defense Counsel, Executive Committee
    • Incoming President (2017-2018)
    • Treasurer (2016-2017)
    • Secretary (2015-2016)
    • Legislative Committee, Co-Chair (2013-2017)
  • Arizona State University, Dean’s Advisory Board to New College at West Campus (2012-2014)
  • Arizona Democratic Party, Copper State Leadership Council

Representative Presentations and Publications