Adam R. Pulver joined the firm as an Associate in 2010. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Pulver served as a law clerk in the United States District Court for the Central District of California in Los Angeles and Riverside, California, for the Honorable Christina A. Snyder, Stephen G. Larson, and Virginia A. Phillips. He has also previously worked at Altshuler Berzon LLP, a union-side labor law firm in San Francisco; a New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, a civil rights non-profit; and the ACLU LGBT Rights and HIV/AIDS Projects.

In 2008, Mr. Pulver received a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a James Kent Scholar and Dean’s Public Interest Law Fellow and was awarded the Allan Morrow Award for excellence in gender and sexuality law. While at Columbia, Mr. Pulver was an active member of the public interest community, serving as Vice President of the Columbia Public Interest Law Foundation and as Student Coordinator for Columbia’s participation in the City Bar Justice Center’s Legal Clinic for the Homeless. He participated in the Sexuality and Gender Law Clinic, directed by Professor Suzanne Goldberg, through which he successfully represented a gay prisoner alleging discrimination in the parole process in a lawsuit brought in the District of Massachusetts. Also in law school, he served as Executive Editor of the Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems, and externed for the Honorable Gerard E. Lynch, then United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York.

Prior to law school, Mr. Pulver worked in a variety of capacities relating to children’s health.

Mr. Pulver is admitted to practice law in New York and California.

Columbia Law School, J.D., 2008

Tufts University, B.A., magna cum laude, Political Science and Community Health, 2005

U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; New York; California

(with Catherine L. Fisk) First Contract Arbitration and the Employee Free Choice Act, 70 LA. L. REV. 47 (2009)

Gay Blood Revisionism: A Critical Analysis of Advocacy & the “Gay Blood Ban”, 17 TUL J. L. & SEXUALITY 107 (2008) (Winner, Michael Greenberg National Lesbian& Gay Law Association Student Writing Competition)

An Imperfect Fit: Obesity, Public Health & Disability Rights, 41 COLUMBIA J.L. & SOC. PROBS. 365 (2008)