Adam Polk

Adam Polk is a partner at Girard Sharp. His experience covers all aspects of civil litigation, from initial case investigation and complaint preparation through settlement or trial. Adam’s practice encompasses a range of class action matters, including products liability, consumer finance, securities, antitrust, corporate governance, life science, and sexual abuse. Adam is respected among his peers for his leadership, preparation, and client-centered decision-making.

Adam currently serves as co-lead counsel in In re Meta Browsing Tracking Litigation (an action filed on behalf of Facebook users who allege their online activity was surreptitiously tracked without their consent); In re Maxar Technologies Inc. Shareholder Litigation (an action alleging violations of the Securities Act of 1933); the Accellion Data Breach Litigation (litigation following a data breach incident the led to the theft of sensitive information in files loaded to Accellion’s File Transfer Appliance system); and the In re Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. Shareholder Litigation (a securities case alleging Hewlett Packard misled investors when it merged with Computer Science Corporation Inc. to form DXC Technology Company). He also serves as on the co-lead counsel teams in In re California Gasoline Spot Market Antitrust Litigation, In re Pacific Fertility Center Litigation, and In re PFA Insurance Marketing Litigation and is an executive committee member in In re Allergan Biocell Textured Breast Implant Products Liability Litigation.

Recently, Adam served as part of the trial team in the first In re Pacific Fertility Center Litigation trial. In a landmark result, the jury awarded approximately $15 million for the loss of four families’ eggs and embryos.

Adam also led several recent cases that resolved favorably for his clients, including In re Subaru Battery Drain Litigation (a consumer protection action concerning defective batteries in Subaru vehicles); Bentley v. LG Electronics U.S.A., Inc. and Sosenko v. LG Electronics U.S.A., Inc. (class actions alleging that LG’s refrigerators are defective and prone to premature failure); and In re Nexus 6P Products Liability Litigation and Weeks v. Google LLC (two consumer class actions against Google relating to defective mobile phones, which resolved for a combined $17 million); and In re Sears Holdings Corporation Stockholder and Derivative Litigation ($40 million settlement).

Adam is the current co-chair of the ABA’s National Institute on Class Actions and the previous chair of the ABA’s Class Action and Derivative Suits committee, where he has been a frequent contributor of written and verbal content regarding emerging issues in class action litigation.

Adam has been selected by his peers as a Northern California Super Lawyer, Rising Star every year since 2013, and has been recognized as a National Trial Lawyers “Top 40 Under 40” every year since 2019. Adam was named to Best Lawyers’ “Ones to Watch” list in 2021 and 2022, and honored in 2022 as a “Rising Star of the Plaintiffs Bar” by the National Law Journal. In 2023, he was named one Lawdragon’s “500 Leading Consumer Plaintiff Lawyers.”