Your forever firm.
Your forever firm.
A legal team that’s more like trusted family.
A legal team that’s more like trusted family.
Now and Forever.
Mission
Mission
Adelman Firm provides superior, professional, innovative services and delivers outstanding value with empathy, trustworthiness, and intelligence. By keeping open lines of communication with our clients and proactive strategic thinking, we can more easily work toward favorable, value-driven outcomes, which clear the path to success.
Promise
Promise
We take pride in our client relationships and desire to align our interests with our clients. With an understanding of the client’s business and goals, we are committed to a high degree of transparency about how legal work will be done, who will do it, strategies to be employed, the business and legal risks of each strategy, expected outcomes and flexible fee arrangements that meet the client’s needs.
We hold each other accountable to these principles, as well as to the mission of our firm and for the work ethic necessary to maintain them. We will embody the standards of competence, professionalism, and integrity and cultivate the trust and respect of our clients and colleagues.
Core Values
Social impact.
Thistle & Bee
Thistle & Bee offers women exiting prostitution and sex trafficking hope and healing through a two-year holistic residential and therapeutic clinical program that includes employment in a social enterprise and life skills training. Learn more.
Facing History and Ourselves
Facing History and Ourselves uses lessons of history to challenge teachers and their students to stand up to bigotry and hate. Since 1992, Facing History’s Memphis chapter has provided professional development and resources to more than 5,800 area teachers throughout the southeastern U.S. Learn more.
That's Caring
Founded in 2008, That’s Caring’s mission is to “Give Happiness, Help Hunger.” Through its partnership with Feeding America, That’s Caring helps supply food-insecure children with bags filled with enough food for the child to eat for the entire weekend. Every gift purchased from That’s Caring helps a child in need. Learn more.
Re+New+All Candle
Through its business model, RE+NEW+ALL Candle provides meaningful work in a safe and nurturing environment for women survivors of human trafficking in the United States. Social enterprise, RE + NEW + ALL employs a therapeutic work model to empower survivors by giving them an opportunity to earn an income, build their resume, obtain job skills, ignite their creativity, and grow professionally in a safe and nurturing working environment. All RE+NEW+ALL candles are hand-poured in Memphis by survivors of human trafficking. Each candle is personally signed by the woman who is being restored by your purchase. Learn more.
Grounded's Me and the Light Community Education and Empowerment Initiative
Grounded is an organization created by Memphis artists to harness the power of art to inspire healing. Grounded is currently working in Memphis neighborhoods, within youth detention facilities, alongside schools. Our work builds teams of student and community collaborators to creatively address youth violence in Memphis. Adelman Firm is a co-sponsor of Grounded’s Me and the Light Community Education and Empowerment Initiative. Learn more.
My Cup of Tea
My Cup of Tea is a non-profit, social enterprise located in the heart of Orange Mound, considered the oldest African American community in America. We import the highest quality tea from tea estates and gardens in the Far East to The House at Orange Mound, where it is weighed, re-formatted, and packaged for sale by women who impact the historic neighborhood.
The film reveals how art can help transform ourselves and our communities struggling with violence.
We’re working with Facing History and Ourselves, the goal is expose powerful learning experiences for students about resilience and conscious choices.
As part of the initiative, students will see the film in a theatrical setting, visit historic sites, and produce content revealing their ideas and and solutions for peace in our communities. Learn more.
Pets for the Elderly
The Pets for the Elderly Foundation helps pay the fees to participating animal shelters throughout the United States for senior citizens (age 60 and over) who adopt a companion dog or cat from a participating shelter – including pre-adoption veterinary exams and spay/neuter, if part of the adoption fee.In 2020, PFE announced that its program would also include funding for shelter programs that cover veterinary services, retention services, food shortage support, and other services for animal adopters aged 60 and over. That PFE funding is implemented through a certified PFE partner shelter and includes routine veterinary care, surgery, food, home visits and grooming. Learn more.
Why choose us.
Results Driven
Equitable & Empathic Work Culture
Flexible & Value-Driven Approach
Women’s Empowerment & Success
Adelman Firm is committed to recruiting, retaining, and advancing our female team members. Our firm focuses on enhancing their professional and personal development and fostering their success in the workplace, community, and lives. Through various programs, we exchange ideas, foster and expand business contacts and opportunities, and enhance development to fully realize our women team members.
Adelman Firm is also proud to be a certified Women’s Business Enterprise (WBE) by the Tennessee Governor’s Office of Diversity Business Enterprise and a certified member of the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council, the largest certifier of women-owned businesses in the U.S.