Adam S. Herman is a partner with Adams, Lattiboudere, Croot & Herman. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Herman served as senior associate counsel for the Newark Public Schools’ Office of the General Counsel. Prior to his service at the Newark Public Schools, Mr. Herman worked as an associate in a firm specializing in the representation of school districts and municipalities in labor and employment law, and a firm specializing in litigation and insurance defense.
For the firm, Mr. Herman handles a broad spectrum of legal matters and cases, including labor and employment, tenure arbitrations, civil service, withholding of increment, student discipline, public contracts, construction, and public procurement and bidding. Mr. Herman also has extensive experience with real estate transactions on behalf of the firm’s clients, including the sale and lease of buildings, and has negotiated leases with various landlords and property managers, including the Archdiocese of Newark.
Mr. Herman routinely appears before arbitrators, the Public Employment Relations Commission, the Office of Administrative Law, the New Jersey Superior Court and the United States District Court. He has also successfully handled matters in the New Jersey Appellate Division and briefed and successfully argued a No Child Left Behind case in Federal District Court and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.
After graduation from law school, Mr. Herman clerked for the Honorable Frank A. Buczynski, Jr., J.S.C. in Ocean County. Mr. Herman earned a Bachelor of Science, summa cum laude, from Towson State University in 1995 and a Juris Doctor, with honors, from Rutgers University School of Law—Camden in 1998. He is admitted to practice in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, the United States District Court of New Jersey, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He has been admitted to practice in the State of New Jersey since 1998.