Adam Teitelbaum
Adam is a fierce consumer advocate with a track record of bringing complex, precedent-setting cases on behalf of state and local governments.
Adam is a fierce consumer advocate with a track record of bringing complex, precedent-setting cases on behalf of state and local governments.
Adam Teitelbaum is a seasoned litigator who has devoted his career to protecting consumers from deceptive and unfair business practices. With more than a decade of experience ideating and leading complex matters, he focuses on novel and emerging consumer protection issues across industries, representing state and local governments in cases that level the playing field for consumers.
Most recently, Adam served as director of the Office of Consumer Protection in the District of Columbia Office of the Attorney General, where he led and supervised hundreds of litigation and pre-suit investigation consumer protection matters. In that role, he oversaw high-profile, boundary-pushing actions, regularly taking on the world’s largest companies, including Big Tech and Big Oil. He led and supervised the District’s lawsuits against TikTok, alleging that the company operated an intentionally addictive platform that harmed children and ran an illegal virtual currency system in violation of District law, and against Meta, alleging that it designed addictive features that harmed young users. He also supervised the District’s landmark $15.2 million settlement with Juul—the largest litigated recovery under the District’s consumer protection law at the time. Also while at the Office of the Attorney General, Adam served as Lead Counsel in the housing discrimination case against DARO Management Services that resulted in a $10 million civil penalty, the largest in a housing discrimination case in U.S. history.
Under Adam’s leadership, the Office of Consumer Protection pursued matters spanning data privacy, deceptive fees and pricing, dark patterns, predatory marketing and lending practices, and other consumer fraud actions. He led case development and strategy, argued key motions and led settlement negotiations in high-profile cases, reviewed and edited hundreds of pleadings, and testified before the D.C. Council on legislation affecting consumers. He also supervised a mediation program that resolved thousands of consumer complaints annually and has returned millions of dollars to D.C. residents.
Before joining the District of Columbia Office of the Attorney General, Adam served as a deputy city attorney in Los Angeles, where he led consumer fraud, data privacy, and wage theft actions, including a novel privacy case against IBM related to location tracking and a wage theft case that resulted in a record $1.6 million stipulated judgment with full restitution for workers. He previously practiced complex commercial litigation at global firms and clerked at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.