Adam Berger | Personal Injury Attorney | Schroeter Goldmark & Bender

Recently, along with other SGB attorneys, Adam has represented the Governor of Washington on a pro bono basis in litigation challenging the constitutionality of federal health care reform, and successfully defended the Washington Department of Labor & Industries’ increase in the State minimum wage in 2011. Adam was profiled in a chapter of Alan B. Morrison & Diane T. Chin, Beyond the Big Firm: Profiles of Lawyers Who Want Something More (2007), and has been named a Washington Super Lawyer since 2004.

$2.2 million class action settlements for owners of vehicles impounded by City of Seattle and Washington State Patrol.

$1.8 million medical malpractice settlement for woman who suffered permanent brain damage from undiagnosed intracerebral aneurysm.
$6.5 million in judgments and settlements in employee class actions for failure to pay overtime wages for drive time in company vehicles.
$1.2 million judgment for armored car messengers and drivers in employee class action for failure to provide rest and meal breaks.
$1.7 million settlement for individual suffering traumatic brain injury when his vehicle was hit by a stolen city bus.
Confidential medical malpractice settlements for delayed diagnoses of cervical cancer, lung cancer, and prostate cancer.

Education

Harvard University, A.B., magna cum laude, 1985
Yale Law School, J.D., 1989

Admissions

Washington State
U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Washington
U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals
U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
United States Supreme Court

Professional and Civic Involvement

Member, American Association for Justice and Washington State Association for Justice
National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) Instructor
Sacajawea Elementary PTA, Executive Committee (2007-2010)
William L. Dwyer American Inn of Court, Executive Committee (2005-2007)
Washington Environmental Council, Board Member (2001-2007)
Washington Trout Conservation Award for Professional Excellence, 1998
Speaker at numerous continuing legal education seminars on class action and wrongful death cases