Adam Dougherty
Partner / Trial Attorney | Feller & Wendt, LLC
Adam Dougherty is a car accidents, trucking accidents and wrongful death trial lawyer and partner / trial attorney at Feller & Wendt, LLC in Mesa, Arizona. J.D., University of Akron School of Law (2003).
Meet Adam
Adam Dougherty is a partner and trial attorney with Feller & Wendt, LLC in Arizona, where he handles serious injury claims for people hurt in car, truck and motorcycle crashes, as well as wrongful death, nursing home abuse, sexual abuse, government vehicle, slip-and-fall and dog bite cases. He tries many of the firm’s most complex cases and is licensed in Arizona and Florida. He opened the firm’s Arizona office in 2021.
Before becoming a lawyer in 2004, Dougherty worked as a corrections officer and then as a parole and probation officer. He started his legal career at the Broward County Public Defender’s Office in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, trying serious felony cases, then moved to personal injury work and founded the Dougherty Law Firm in South Florida in 2012. In 2017 he and co-counsel won a $2.5 million verdict in Rojas v. Wolfson in Miami-Dade County, and in 2022 a Florida court awarded $5,135,500 to a family after he tried a drowning case.
He earned his law degree from the University of Akron School of Law in 2003 and a bachelor’s degree in justice studies from Arizona State University. A graduate of Gerry Spence’s Trial Lawyers College, he was also in the first graduating class of the KeenanBall Trial College, later joining its faculty and becoming an assistant dean.
Experience and Expertise
Qualifications
Timeline
- J.D., University of Akron School of Law, 2003
- B.S., Justice Studies, Arizona State University, 1999
- State Bar of Arizona
- State Bar of Florida
- U.S. District Court, District of Arizona
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida
- U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Florida
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Graduate, Gerry Spence's Trial Lawyers College, 2006
Practice Areas
- KeenanBall Trial College (Faculty; Assistant Dean)
- Melvin M. Belli Society
- The National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Personal Injury Lawyer, 2017-2023
- The National Trial Lawyers Top 10 Trucking Lawyer, 2017-2023
- Best Lawyers in America, 2024
- Litigator of the Year, Personal Injury Law, American Institute of Trial Lawyers, 2023
- Melvin Belli Society, inducted 2023
- AV Rated, Martindale-Hubbell, 2012-2023
- National Association of Distinguished Counsel, Nation's Top 1%, 2017-2023
- TopVerdict Top 10 Bench Award, Florida, 2022
- TopVerdict Top 50 Personal Injury Verdict, Florida, 2017
- Top Lawyers of South Florida, 2015-2021
- $5,135,500 Bench Award: Awarded by a Florida court to a family after he tried a drowning case in 2022; listed as a TopVerdict Top 10 bench award.
- $5.1 Million Settlement: 2023 settlement in a tractor-trailer crash case.
- $3.85 Million Settlement: Settlement in a traumatic brain injury case.
- $2.5 Million Verdict: 2017 verdict in Rojas v. Wolfson in Miami-Dade County, obtained with co-counsel Greg Ward after a $25,000 pre-suit offer.
- $1 Million Settlement: Settlement in a tractor-trailer crash case.
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