Adam Doerr Email & Phone Number

Adam Doerr advocates for companies and individuals involved in significant business disputes, including financial services litigation, class actions, shareholder and corporate governance disputes, and appeals in state and federal courts.Adam litigates in state and federal courts in North Carolina and across the country. He also represents parties involved in litigation that spans multiple forums and jurisdictions, such as multidistrict litigation and simultaneous cases in state and federal court, and in arbitration proceedings.In addition to his business litigation practice, Adam handles political and governmental litigation. His experience includes representing a group of plaintiffs challenging partisan gerrymandering in litigation now pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, serving as counsel to the North Carolina governor in litigation over proposed constitutional amendments, and defending state government agencies in regulatory and licensing challenges.Adam co-chairs the firm's Class Actions and Appeals practice groups, and he serves as a member of the state Appellate Rules Committee.

Listed skills include Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Appeals, Civil Litigation, and 4 others.

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  Partner

  Robinson Bradshaw & Hinson

  Oct 2007 - Present - Charlotte, North Carolina Area

  Representative experience includes: - Representing a national bank in multiple putative class actions regarding what is alleged to be one of the largest Ponzi/pyramid schemes in U.S. history.- Representing a Fortune 500 retailer in a putative national class action brought by tens of thousands of individual store managers, including interlocutory appeal in the Fourth Circuit and petition for certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court. - Advocating for groups such as the N.C. Legislative Black Caucus and the Lawyer's Committee on Civil Rights, and the NC NAACP on issues including voter ID and racial and partisan gerrymandering in briefs submitted in state and federal appellate court.- Defending board members, corporations and private equity firms against shareholder lawsuits challenging public company mergers, including litigation over eight different public company transactions in recent years.- Representing Wachovia Corporation and its directors in successfully defending a suit challenging Wachovia's $15 billion merger with Wells Fargo. - Filing multiple briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court, including an amicus brief for the Cato Institute supporting the victim of a police shooting, a petition for certiorari in a major class action, and an opposition to certiorari in a case raising First Amendment issues. - Obtaining dismissal, without discovery, of four separate cases filed in three different courts by shareholders regarding the decline in Wachovia’s share price; successfully defended results on appeal. Rivers v. Wachovia, 665 F.3d 610 (4th Cir. 2011); Browne v. Thompson, 727 S.E.2d 637 (N.C. Ct. App. 2012); Rice-Marko v. Wachovia, 728 S.E.2d 301 (S.C. Ct. App. 2012); Harris v. Wachovia, 2011 NCBC 3 (N.C. Bus. Ct. 2011).- Defending Duke Energy Corporation in multijurisdictional litigation regarding its $32 billion merger with Progress Energy Corporation.