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Adam Friedman’s practice at Wolff & Samson is concentrated in the fields of fidelity and related insurance, surety, construction, and other complex commercial matters throughout New York and New Jersey.

Adam advises and represents fidelity insurers on all aspects of matters relating to financial institution bonds, commercial crime policies and other types of fidelity insurance involving both standard and proprietary forms. He counsels and represents sureties on all aspects of performance and payment bond claims, subdivision bond claims and claims against other types of bonds, including matters in litigation, arbitration, mediation and bankruptcy. He also advises and represents contractors in a variety of construction-related matters on both public and private projects throughout New York and New Jersey.

Adam is an active member of both the Fidelity and Surety Law Committee of the Tort Trial & Insurance Practice section of the American Bar Association and the Fidelity and Surety Committee of the Defense Research Institute. He also is a frequent author and lecturer on topics of fidelity and surety law. Recent engagements include:

• 2008 Northeast Surety and Fidelity Claims Conference, Fidelity Session chair and author of “The Year in Fidelity Law”
• 2008 FSLC Spring Meeting, participating author in The Surety’s Indemnity Agreement – Law & Practice, Second Edition.
• 2007 Fidelity Law Association Annual Meeting co-chair
• 2007 Northeast Surety and Fidelity Claims Conference, Fidelity Session co-chair and author of “The Year in Fidelity Law”
• 2006 Fidelity Law Association Annual Meeting, co-presenter/co-author of “The Rule of Contra Proferentem and the Interpretive Impact of Making Changes to Standard Fidelity Bond Forms”
• 2005 FSLC Mid-Winter Meeting, Fidelity Session co-chair

Adam was featured in the New Jersey Law Journal’s “40 Under 40” list in both August 2002 and September 2004. This distinction is given annually to 40 attorneys under the age of 40 in New Jersey who “are worth watching, not only for what they have achieved so far in their careers, but more so for the potential they show to be among the leaders of the New Jersey bar in the not-so-distant future.” He has an AV® rating from Martindale-Hubbell.

In 1992, Adam served as a law clerk to U.S. District Judge Arthur D. Spatt of the Eastern District of New York. He is a 1991 graduate of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, where he was an editor of the Cardozo Law Review.