Adam is the Attorney Advocate for the Student Press Law Center in Arlington, Virginia. The SPLC is the nation's only legal assistance agency dedicated to helping high school and college journalists, advisers, and those working on their behalf. Since Sept. 2003, he has responded to over ten thousand legal requests.

Currently, he is also an instructor for Michigan State Unversity's Spring 2010 online course in Student Media Law. Some of his contributions also appear in the SPLC's textbook, Law of the Student Press.

Adam graduated from Fordham University School of Law and Fordham College at Lincoln Center.