Stuart Adams, Esq, Partner
Stuart D. Adams is a partner of Adams Ferrone & Ferrone and has been practicing law for 18 years. Stuart specializes in the negotiation of labor contracts with either direct presence at the negotiating table or through back-up legal opinions and advice depending on the preference of the client. He also handles contract maintenance representation through the grievance process and provides legal advice to the boards of directors of the safety organizations that he represents including organizations as large as the California Correctional Peace Officers’ Association.
Stuart also handles clients facing internal affairs investigations by employers. He has managed hundreds of disciplinary appeal hearings including arbitrations and appeals before the State Personnel Board. He has represented more than a hundred public safety organizations throughout California. Stuart has significant litigation experience with mandatory injunctions and writs of mandate under the Public Safety Officers’ Procedural Bill of Rights.
Prior to Adams, Ferrone & Ferrone, Stuart spent 11 years representing public saftey associations. Stuart practiced law at Silver, Hadden & Silver, from 1990 to 1997, and then formed his own firm, Goyette & Adams from 1997 to 2001.
Stuart is a lecturer for the Peace Officers’ Research Association of California Internal Affairs seminars. He was the former Treasurer of the Sacramento County Bar Labor & Employment law section. Stuart received his law degree from the University of San Diego and passed the California Bar in 1989. Stuart graduated from Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia with a Bachelor of Arts in 1985.
