Mark S. Adams focuses his practice on business litigation, including, contracts, products liability, corporate and partnership disputes, and hospitality litigation. On behalf of hotel and resort owners, Mark has successfully litigated the termination of long-term, no-cut, hotel management agreements, franchise agreements, fiduciary duty issues, investor-owner disputes, TOT assessments, and more. He also has significant litigation experience in representing real estate developers and real estate investors.
Mark has wide-ranging trial experience in commercial disputes, including complex multi-party litigation and class actions. He has tried numerous cases in state courts, federal courts, and in domestic and international arbitrations, and is a frequent author and speaker on trial practice. Mark's trial wins have been covered by Forbes, Reuters, Life Science Weekly and other publications. He has obtained two of California's annual 50 largest jury verdicts in the same year. Mark has taken or defended nearly 1,000 depositions throughout North America, Europe and the Middle East. He has been quoted as an expert on noncompete agreements in the Wall Street Journal.
- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- General Civil
- California
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- U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit
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- U.S. Court of Federal Claims
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- U.S. District Court, Central District of California
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- U.S. District Court, Northern District of California
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- U.S. District Court,Eastern District of California
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- U.s. District Court, Southern District of California
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- English
- Partner
- Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP
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- Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
- J.D. (1986)
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- Baylor University
- MBA (1983)
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- University of California - Los Angeles
- B.S. (1979)
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- Orange County Bar Association
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- Federal Bar Association
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- Association of Business Trial Lawyers
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- State Bar of California
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- The Shrinking Terms of Hotel Management Agreements
- Hotel News Resource, Hotel Online and Hotel Executive
- Expert Testimony, a Trial Lawyer’s Checklist
- The Trial of a Federal Court Case (Pennsylvania Bar Institute)
- Employers (and Employees) Beware: Defamatory Statements on the Internet Can Be Actionable in a Court of Law
- Orange County Business Journal
- The Director’s Friend: The Business Judgment Rule
- Orange County Business Journal
- Hospitality Asset Managers Association Fall 2013 Meeting
- Hospitality Asset Managers Association
- Dos and Don’ts of the Testifying Expert, National Association of Document Examiners Conference
- National Association of Document Examiners
- April 27-29, 2012
- Paralegal Ethics: Focus on the Fuzzy Stuff, Orange County Paralegal Association Litigation Section Seminar
- Orange County Paralegal Association
