About Adam Rothey
Legal Assistant: Mindy Irvin | 469-421-6618 | mirvin@thompsonhorton.com
Adam is a trusted trial attorney and counselor who successfully guides his clients through their toughest legal challenges. Adam’s successes for his clients are driven by his attention to detail, strategic vision, and responsiveness to his clients’ concerns.
As an experienced trial attorney, Adam has won victories for his clients in a variety of matters, including bond election contests, civil rights and employment disputes, multimillion-dollar commercial and construction disputes, and federal criminal defense. He has also successfully represented educational clients facing complex regulatory audits and investigations brought by federal and state agencies like the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and Texas Department of Agriculture. A father of three, Adam made a lifelong commitment to education when he married his wife, a career educator, and now brings his broad trial and counseling experience to bear in representing the interests of educational institutions.
Selected Client Representations
- Defeated election contest challenge to community college client’s $1.1 billion bond measure after 11-day trial
- Settled multi-year Securities and Exchange Commission investigation of school district resulting in no fines or penalties against the district
- Guided large, urban school district through Texas Department of Agriculture audit regarding child nutrition programs and funding, saving the district from significant fines, penalties, and loss of funding
- Obtained a not guilty verdict in a federal criminal trial in the Western District of Texas
- Recovered breach of contract damages and attorneys’ fees in three-week trial in Dallas County involving the breach of an executive employment contract
- Successfully reversed dismissal by US District Court in appeal to the Sixth Circuit in multimillion-dollar professional malpractice suit
- Prepared and perfected multiple appeals and wrote related briefing in the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, Illinois Courts of Appeals, New York Appellate Division, and Texas Courts of Appeals
Representative Speeches & Presentations
- Bond Program Disputes: How to avoid litigation when possible but be prepared for disputes when they happen, TASBO Annual Conference, March 3, 2021
- Title IX Litigation Trends, Title IX Summer Seminars Webinar, August 4, 2020
- New Title IX Regulations: What Every Institution of Higher Education Should Know, Title IX Summer Seminars Webinar, May 27, 2020
- Preventing and Addressing Sex-Based Discrimination and Harassment at GISD, Garland ISD Training, November 7, 2019
- Use of Cellular Data and Cellular Data Experts at Trial, Midland/Pecos CJA Panel Training, 2018
- Sentencing Variance Arguments in Federal Drug Cases, Midland/Pecos CJA Panel Training, 2017
- Why Civil Lawyers Should Take Criminal Appointments, Waco CJA Panel Training, 2017
Education
- J.D., The University of Texas School of Law, 2005
- B.A., magna cum laude, Brigham Young University, 2002
Licensing & Court Admissions
- Licensed in the state of Texas
- Licensed in the state of Colorado (inactive)
- U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western District of Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
- U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
- U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
Memberships & Recognitions
- Texas Rising Star 2009, 2010, and 2014
- J. Reuben Clark Law Society
- Dallas Bar Association