Adam Florek serves as Of Counsel at Werner, Hoffman, Greig & Garcia, bringing a strong background in complex commercial litigation and providing counsel to businesses ranging from individual entrepreneurs to startups to lower-middle market businesses on a wide array of corporate and commercial matters.
Before joining Werner, Hoffman, Greig & Garcia, Adam was Counsel at Peiffer Wolf Carr Kane Conway & Wise, LLP, where he led the firm’s Biometric Information Privacy practice group and represented clients in civil and class-action litigation in various state and federal courts. Earlier in his career, he was an Associate in Blank Rome’s Chicago office in the Commercial Finance Litigation group.
Adam also served as a judicial clerk to the Honorable William J. Bauer of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and the Honorable Charles R. Norgle of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
He earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Illinois Chicago’s John Marshall Law School, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Information Technology & Privacy Law. During law school, he also studied Transnational Legal Negotiation and Mediation at the University of Strathclyde Law School in Glasgow, Scotland, and competed in the school’s International Moot Court Competition in Information Technology and Privacy Law.
Adam is a partner at Crassus Partners, LLC, a mergers & acquisitions brokerage and consultancy. He is Counsel for The Coalitions Opposing Government Secrecy, a non-partisan 501(c)(3) focused on shedding light on government activities; an Advisor for GazaPassage, a non-partisan working group focused on helping non-combatants leave Gaza; and a member of the board of re:UNITED Travel Inc., a 501(c)(3) organization that provides immersive overseas travel opportunities for youth in underserved communities.
