Steven A. Adelman

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Steve Adelman speaking on "The Legal Implications of Risk Management" at the Academy for Venue Safety & Security, August 2007

Steve Adelman (second from right) with co-presenters Harold Hansen, Frank Poe and John Siehl at the IAAM annual conference in Salt Lake City on July 21, 2007

Steve Adelman (second from right) spoke on The Station nightclub fire (view PowerPoint) at the IAAM annual conference in Salt Lake City on July 21, 2007

Steve Adelman speaking on the legal implications of Arizona's smoking ban and other legal issues for entertainment venues at the January 22, 2007, meeting of the International Association of Assembly Managers

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PRACTICE AREAS

Venue Safety

Entertainment Law

Transportation

Products Liability

Commercial Litigation

 

EDUCATION

Boston College Law School, J.D., 1994

University of Massachusetts, M.A., History, 1989

Tufts University, B.A., American Studies, cum laude, 1985

PRESENTATIONS

"The Paper Chase: Documenting Threat Assessment in Anticipation of Litigation," Arizona Chapter of the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals, June 2008

"Settlement Negotiations: Everything a Lawyer Should Know," Lorman Seminar, April 2008

"Singing Off Key: ADA Compliance at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House," Performing Arts Managers Conference, February 2008 View PowerPoint

"Interpretations of Reality: Managing the Media," Performing Arts Managers Conference, February 2008
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"Risk Management, The Law, and You," Academy for Venue Safety & Security, February 2008

 "Trapdoors Everywhere!" United States Institute for Theatre Technology, January 2008

"Risk ... and Other Scary Concepts," Tempe Center for the Arts, December 2007

"Lawyers Love Paper: What Can Be Protected, What Must Be Preserved," Arizona Tourism Safety and Security Conference, November 2007 Press release

"Vulnerability Identification Self-Assessment Tool," International Association of Assembly Managers (IAAM) Conference, September 2007

"The Legal Implications of Risk Management," Academy for Venue Safety & Security, August 2007

"No Safe Harbor: The Station Nightclub Fire," International Association of Assembly Managers (IAAM) Conference, July 2007 (view PowerPoint)

"A Reasonably Good Time: The Legal Duty of Public Assembly Facilities," International Association of Assembly Managers (IAAM) Conference, May 2007

"Creative Performance and the Law," Scottsdale Community College Music Industry Club, March 1, 2007

"Bring Lawyers, Guns and Monday: Running a Public Assembly Facility in a Litigious Society," International Association of Assembly Managers, Arizona Chapter, Phoenix, January 22, 2007

ARTICLES

"Beyond Brinkmanship: Strategies for Conflict Resolution" (seminar text), Settlement Negotiations: Everything a Lawyer Should Know, April 2008 

"Helping the Disabled in an Emergency," Venue Safety & Security, Fall 2007

"A Sober Assessment: Rethinking Alcohol Sales after Josh Hancock," Facility Manager, August/September 2007

"To Serve and Protect: The Problem of Underage Drinking," Venue Safety & Security, Summer 2007

"Just a Matter of Time: The Duty to Address Reasonably Foreseeable Risks," Facility Manager, June/July 2007

"Protected Critical Infrastructure Information: Reducing the Risk of Risk Assessment," Facility Manager, April/May 2007

"Teenage Wasteland: Assumption of the Risk of Crowd Crush Injuries," Maryland State Bar Association "Bar Bulletin," November 2004

"Won't Get Fooled Again: Litigating Crowd Crush Cases," Trial, June 2004

BAR ADMISSIONS

Massachusetts, 1994

U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts, 1994

Arizona, 1997

U.S. District Court, District of Arizona, 1997

District of Columbia, 2001

U.S. District Court, District of Columbia, 2002

Maryland, 2002

U.S. District Court, District of Maryland, 2002