Jason M. Adams

Jason is a leading litigator whose practice focuses on insurance law and risk management, construction law, and business and civil litigation.

Insurance Recovery & Risk Management

Jason is a leader of Cox Castle’s Corporate Insurance Recovery & Risk Management Practice. He represents policyholders against insurance companies in the pursuit of coverage. He also provides strategic counsel regarding contractual risk transfer and the structuring and implementation of complex insurance programs. Jason has extensive experience with residential and commercial owner controlled (OCIP) and contractor controlled (CCIP) insurance programs and other nuanced liability and property insurance programs. He is also a licensed property and casualty insurance broker and certified Construction Risk & Insurance Specialist (CRIS).

Construction Law

Jason has extensive experience representing developers, contractors, subcontractors, designers, and other construction professionals through all phases of the construction process. He has a wealth of expertise in contract negotiation, procurement and evaluation of insurance programs, project delays, defects, insurance claims, and disputes.

Jason is a published author and highly sought-after speaker at seminars on topics relating to construction and insurance risk and management. Jason also serves as a mediator and arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association (AAA). He has significant trial and arbitration experience and serves as outside counsel to a variety of corporate clients on business and construction matters. 

First chaired trial against a major corporation represented by an international law firm leading to favorable interpretation of complex partnership agreement which resulted in tens of millions in recovery to developer client. 

Secured a jury verdict against the nation’s largest health insurance company for wrongful denial of a liver transplant.

Secured a judgment in a Federal Court trial on behalf of one of the world’s largest agricultural processors

Honors & Recognitions

Leaders of Influence: Litigators & Trial Attorneys, Los Angeles Business Journal, 2024

Leaders in the Law Award, Los Angeles Business Journal, 2020

Top 100, The National Trial Lawyers Association

Top 40 Under 40, The National Trial Lawyers Association

Southern California Super Lawyer, 2019-2024

Southern California Super Lawyers, Rising Star in Construction Defect Litigation

Invitee of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum

Professional Affiliations

Fellow, Construction Law Society of America

Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) 

Provisors – Westlake Village 3

Southern California Contractors Association – Legal Committee

Community Associations Institute (CAI)

California Legislative Action Committee (CLAC)

Department of Consumer & Business Affairs – Court Mediator (Los Angeles Superior Court)

Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (CAALA) – Mandatory Settlement Conference Settlement Officer

Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles

American Trial Lawyers Association

Consumer Attorneys of California

Ventura County Bar Association

Calabasas Chamber of Commerce

South Coast Homeowners Association

South Coast Mediation Association

Encino Lawyers Association

Association of Surfing Lawyers (founding member)

Licenses & Certifications

California Property & Casualty Insurance Broker License

Construction Risk & Insurance Specialist (CRIS)

Tennessee State Bar (Voluntary Inactive)

Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation – Mediation and Conflict Management

Mediation Certification – American Institute of Mediation

US District Court – Central District of California