Adam Gillette focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation. Before joining the firm, he served as a law clerk to Judge Thomas L. Ambro of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and Judge Susie Morgan of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. 

Adam graduated with high honors and Order of Coif from the University of North Carolina School of Law, where he received a full-tuition merit scholarship as a Chancellors Scholar. He served as Editor-in-Chief of Volume 27 of the North Carolina Banking Institute Journal. While part of the school’s Supreme Court Clinic, Adam co-authored a successful cert petition to the Supreme Court of the United States in McElrath v. Georgia, which resulted in a unanimous victory for the petitioner. 601 U.S. 87 (2024). 

Before law school, Adam held a number of strategy and operations roles in the finance and technology sectors and worked on political campaigns at the state and federal levels. He graduated from the University of Chicago with a bachelor’s degree in history, with honors. 

A proud native of Newport News, Virginia, where his parents were public-school teachers, Adam is the first lawyer in his family. He and his wife, a composer of new music, live in DC with their rescue dog, Haydn, who is named after another composer.