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Adam Augustine Carter
Washington, District of Columbia
Principal

Adam Augustine Carter, Principal

Adam Augustine Carter represents clients in civil and criminal litigation matters before federal and state courts, both at trial and on appeal. He regularly advocates for his clients before arbitration panels, as well as legislative and regulatory bodies. Mr. Carter is very experienced in cases involving wrongful termination, employment discrimination, securities, investment banking, health care, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), trademarks and trade secrets, insurance, antitrust, software development, construction, defamation, associations and telecommunications. He represents employees who bring claims against their employers for age, race, religious, ethnic, disability or sex discrimination, for violations of USERRA, SOX, FMLA, for retaliation, and for violations of other federal and/or state civil rights laws. Mr. Carter also has significant experience defending individuals in white collar criminal cases and investigations, and also represents qui tam whistle-blowers and witnesses in cases brought under the False Claims Act. Also, he has advised hundreds of executives on contractual matters, during compensation negotiations, and regarding both termination and non-competition restrictions. Not long ago, Mr. Carter helped a client win a significant discrimination case against her employer resulting in a considerable raise, various court ordered job protections for the employee, and a 100% fee recovery awarded by the court. Mr. Carter also won a $1 million jury verdict in the Circuit Court of Montgomery County for a client who had accused her employer of sexual harassment that took the form of a hostile work environment. Most recently, Mr. Carter has won an appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit involving an employee who wanted a federal court to review his SOX complaint.

Mr. Carter is a graduate of Georgetown University and Georgetown University Law Center. He served as law clerk to the Honorable Oliver Gasch of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. He is admitted to practice law before the District of Columbia, Virginia, and Maryland bars, and various federal courts. He is a member of the Barristers and is an active participant in the Archdiocesan Pro Bono Legal Network.

Areas of Practice:

Labor and Employment Law
Civil and Criminal Litigation
White Collar Criminal
Whistle-Blowers

Bar Admissions:

Virginia, 1991
District of Columbia, 1992
Maryland, 1998
U.S. District Court District of Maryland
U.S. District Court Eastern District of Virginia
U.S. District Court District of Columbia
U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois
U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit
Court of Federal Claims
U.S. Supreme Court

Education:

Georgetown Univ. Law Center, Washington, DC, 1991 J.D.
Law Review: American Criminal Law Review, 1989 - 1991

Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA, 1987 A.B.
Major: Economics

Representative Cases:

Breeden v. Novartis Pharm. Corp., 684 F. Supp. 2d 58 (D.D.C. 2010).

Kumar v. Hilton Hotels Corp., No. 2:08-cv-02689-BBD-tmp (W.D. Tenn. Jan. 5, 2010).

Stone v. Instrumentation Lab. Co., 591 F.3d 239 (4th Cir. 2009).

Inman v. Klockner Pentaplast Of Am., Inc., 347 F. App'x 955 (4th Cir. 2009).

Amos v. District of Columbia, 589 F. Supp. 2d 48 (D.D.C. 2008).

Kopff v. World Research Group, LLC, 568 F. Supp. 2d 39 (D.D.C. 2008).

Mace v. Domash, 550 F. Supp. 2d 101 (D.D.C. 2008).

U.S. ex rel. Fago v. M & T Mortg. Corp., 518 F. Supp. 2d 108 (D.D.C. 2007).

Francis v. Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Inc., 452 F.3d 299 (4th Cir. 2006).

Shaffer v. ACS Gov’t Servs, Inc., 454 F. Supp. 2d 330 (D. Md. 2006).

Booker v. Robert Half Int’l, Inc.,  413 F.3d 77 (D.C. Cir. 2005).

Goldstein v. Moatz, 364 F.3d 205 (4th Cir. 2004).

Cavalier Tel., LLC v. Verizon Va. Inc., 208 F. Supp. 2d 608 (E.D. Va. 2002).

Smith Barney Inc. v. Vogele, 967 F. Supp. 165 (E.D. Va. 1997).

U.S. ex rel. Windsor v. DynCorp, Inc., 895 F. Supp. 844 (E.D. Va. 1995).

Publications

Author: “Combating Claims of Computer Fraud and Abuse,” 7 Workplace L. Rep. (BNA) No. 1557 (November 20, 2009).

Past Employment Positions:

United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Hon. Oliver Gasch, Law Clerk, 1991 - 1992

Towey & Associates, Associate, 1992 - 1996

Kutak Rock, LLP, Associate, 1996 - 2000

Kelley Drye & Warren, LLP, Associate, 2000 - 2002