Previously, Adam practiced law at Cooper & Kirk and served as a law clerk to Judge Richard Clifton on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and to Judge Janice Rogers Brown on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Adam received his J.D. from Yale Law School and his B.A. from the University of Virginia, where he majored in English and Music and minored in Religious Studies. Adam is a native of Washington, D.C., and grew up in Arlington, Virginia.