Experience & Qualifications
A Career in the Courtroom
Decades of trial and appellate experience, with the preparation and judgment the bench demands.
Years of legal experience
Appellate courts argued before
Parishes served in the 4th JDC: Ouachita and Morehouse
Trial & Appellate Practice
Adam is a partner at Hudson, Potts & Bernstein, Northeast Louisiana's oldest and largest law firm, founded in 1875, and a former president of the 4th Judicial District Bar Association. He has extensive courtroom experience, handling cases not only throughout Louisiana, but nationwide, from Texas to North Carolina. He has represented everyone from individuals, families, and local municipalities to national corporations and firearms manufacturers. Those cases have spanned everything from multimillion dollar class actions and constitutional litigation to boundary disputes and misdemeanors.
Adam also maintains an active appellate practice, having argued before eight different state and federal appellate courts. A member of the United States Supreme Court Bar, he persuaded the nation's highest court to grant a writ of certiorari for a local client, a step the high court takes in less than 1% of cases brought before it.
Admitted to Practice
- United States Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- United States District Courts for the Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of Louisiana and the Western District of Arkansas
- Louisiana Supreme Court
- Arkansas Supreme Court & Arkansas Court of Appeals
- Admitted pro hac vice in courts across the country
Education
2008
University of Arkansas School of Law
Juris Doctor
- • Magna cum laude
- • Winner and Best Oral Advocate – W.H. Sutton Trial Competition
- • Note & Comment Editor, Arkansas Law Review
- • Phi Delta Phi legal honor fraternity
2005
University of Louisiana Monroe
Bachelor of Arts, English
- • Cum laude; Most Outstanding Senior, Department of English
- • Who's Who Among Students in American Universities & Colleges
- • Phi Kappa Phi & Alpha Lambda Delta honor societies
Honors & Leadership
- Obtained a writ of certiorari from the United States Supreme Court for a Morehouse Parish business
- Past President: 4th Judicial District Bar Association
- Board of Directors: Louisiana Bar Foundation
- Charter Fellow: Northeast Louisiana Bar Foundation
- Immediate Past President: ULM Athletic Foundation
- Magna cum laude, University of Arkansas School of Law
- Winner and Best Oral Advocate – W.H. Sutton Trial Competition
- Note and Comment Editor – Arkansas Law Review