Adam Hepburn

Proven Verdicts
San Diego, CA10 years experience

About Adam Hepburn

Adam Joseph Hepburn is a Founding Partner of HHJ Trial Attorneys (Hepburn, Hernandez & Jung) and the Managing Partner of the firm's Personal Injury Division, focusing on catastrophic injuries, brain injuries, and wrongful death in San Diego County. He handles the firm's most complex injury cases, typically car-accident, motorcycle, and serious-injury matters valued at more than $1 million. Adam was hand-picked to work with the U.S. Navy JAG Corps in San Diego, helping defend service members facing serious criminal charges, and earlier worked with the San Diego Public Defender's Office, where he successfully litigated multiple jury trials and posted one of the highest acquittal/dismissal rates in an office of more than 200 attorneys.

Just two years after opening his firm, Adam was named a Super Lawyer; HHJ has also been voted Best Litigation Firm by peers in the San Diego Union-Tribune. He graduated from U.C. Berkeley and earned a full-tuition merit scholarship to California Western School of Law, where he ranked in the top 5% of his class, wrote for the Law Review, and competed on the school's Trial Advocacy Team.

Proven verdicts and settlements

$1 millionSettlement

San Diego County paid $1 million to the family of Ivan Ortiz, a 26-year-old with schizophrenia who died by suicide in Central Jail the day after staff documented a prior attempt and failed to remove the item he used to take his life.

U.S. District Court, Southern District of California · 2021Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

California Western School of Law
J.D.
University of California, Berkeley
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of California
California Western Trial Advocacy Team (alumnus)

Awards & recognition

Super Lawyers (Personal Injury)
San Diego Union-Tribune "Best Litigation Firm" (firm award)

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