Marianne Adams is an associate whose practice focuses on complex commercial litigation. She earned her Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from the University of Miami School of Law. During law school, Ms. Adams served as the Digital Editor of the University of Miami Law Review and competed on UM Law Moot Court and Trial Team. She also served as a Dean’s Fellow, where she assisted in teaching civil procedure and legal writing and advocacy to first-year law students. Ms. Adams was also inducted into the Iron Arrow Honor Society, the highest honor that the University of Miami can bestow upon someone.
Areas of Experience
- Complex Commercial Litigation
Awards and Recognitions
- Iron Arrow Honor Society
- Order of Barristers
- Moot Court Champion and Best Oral Advocate Award in Final Round Before Florida Supreme Court Justices, 2025 Robert Orseck Moot Court Competition
- Trial Team Semifinalist & Best Non-Movant’s Memorandum of Law Award, 2025 National Pretrial Competition
- Honorable Stanford Blake Award, Litigation Skills Program
- CALI Excellence for the Future Award in Legal Communication & Research I
- Dean’s Certificate of Achievement Awards in Property, U.S. Constitutional Law I, Evidence, and Salvage, Treasure, & Protection
- Dean’s List (Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026)
- Assisted former United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida Marcos D. Jiménez in drafting amicus curiae brief for the Supreme Court of the United States in Havana Docks Corporation v. Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd.
Bar Admissions
- Florida
Published Works
- Marianne Adams, Reforming the Limitation Act: We’ll Cross That Bridge When We Get There? Well, We’re Here and That Bridge Has Already Fallen, 80 U. Mia. L. Rev. 799 (2026).
Education
- University of Miami School of Law (J.D., May 2026) – Dean’s Merit Scholarship
- University of Florida (B.S., Business Administration, Finance, December 2022) – Florida Bright Futures Scholarship
