Adam J. McNeile

Adam McNeile is a managing partner at the law firm of Kemnitzer, Barron & Krieg, LLP. Adam has experience litigating a wide variety of consumer protection actions, representing hundreds of individual consumers in their fight for justice against large corporations. His practice focuses on consumer financing and automotive issues, including door-to-door sales scams, warranty law, automotive dealership fraud, elder abuse, and civil rights violations. Adam has extensive experience with fraud related to the sale and financing of solar panels and other home solicitation issues.

Adam has been appointed lead counsel in dozens of class actions in both state and federal court. Adam has been class counsel in cases that have wiped out hundreds of millions of dollars in debt for California consumers. Adam also has broad experience litigating cases in arbitration, including trying cases to award in arbitral fora. His work has resulted in injunctions against multiple large corporations.

Prior to joining Kemnitzer, Barron & Krieg, Adam was an associate attorney at Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, where he focused on bankruptcy litigation.

Adam is a member of the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) and the National Association of Consumer Advocates (NACA).

Speaking Engagements

• 2024 Speaker at NACA/NCLC Spring Training, Solar Panel Fraud, Case Filing, Target Defendants, and Causes of Action, and Case Review
• 2023 PLI Consumer Financial Services 2023: Highlights, Speaker, Arbitration, Class Actions, and UDAP Update
• 2023 Public Law Center, Training on Solar Panel Sales Fraud
• 2022 NCLC Consumer Rights Litigation Conference, Speaker, The ABC’s of Auto Fraud
• 2022 NCLC Class Action Symposium, Panel Moderator, A Bitcoin for Your Thoughts: How Blockchain Technology is Changing Class Action Practice
• 2022 NACA Spring Training, Speaker, Resolution in Lemon Law Cases and Pre-Suit Investigation In A Dealer Fraud Case
• 2022 NACA Spring Training Co-Chair
• 2021 USC Gould School of Law Guest Lecture, Rees-Levering Automobile Sales Finance Act
• 2021 NACA Spring Training, Speaker, Lifecycle of an Auto Fraud Case
• 2020 NCLC Consumer Rights Litigation Conference, Speaker, Intro to Dealer Fraud
• 2020 NACA Spring Training, Speaker, Dealer Add-Ons Litigation
• 2020 Berkeley Law Lecture, Running Your Own Law Firm
• 2020 Housing and Economic Rights Advocates, MCLE training on the Rees-Levering Automobile Sales Finance Act
• 2019 Public Law Center, MCLE training on the Rees-Levering Automobile Sales Finance Act
• 2019 Bay Area Legal Aid, MCLE training on the Rees-Levering Automobile Sales Finance Act
• 2018 NACA Auto Fraud Conference, Speaker, Formal Discovery in Auto Fraud Cases
• 2017 Guest Lecturer at UC Hastings Law School Consumer Law Seminar
• 2015 Bay Area Legal Aid MCLE Negotiation Training

Publications

• Editor, NCLC Consumer Class Actions Treatise, 2023 ed.
• Editor, NCLC Consumer Warranty Law Treatise, 2020 ed.
• Law360, April 21, 2020, “California Auto Defect Law Makes the Roads Safer for Everyone“