Adam Eckart

Biography

Adam Eckart is an Associate Professor of Legal Writing at Suffolk University Law School where he teaches Antitrust, Business Organizations, Legal Practice Skills, and Transactional Skills.

Professor Eckart's scholarship is focused on the intersection between law and business. His current work focuses on antitrust merger remedies and his previous work has analyzed how business entities influence and shape the law, including social policy. Two of Professor Eckart's recent articles were showcased at the American Association of Law Schools' Annual Meeting in 2021 and 2023. In 2025, Professor Eckart was awarded Suffolk University Law School’s Charles P. Kindregan Scholarship Award, a prestigious annual award recognizing outstanding faculty achievements in research and scholarship.

Professor Eckart serves on the Board of Directors of the Legal Writing Institute, the nation's largest organization dedicated to improving legal communication. Prior to teaching at Suffolk University Law School, Professor Eckart taught in the Lawyering Program at Boston University Law School and practiced at Ropes & Gray LLP as an associate in the antitrust mergers and acquisitions practice, where he counseled domestic and multinational business entities in a range of antitrust and business matters.

Education

• BS, University of Connecticut
• JD, Suffolk University Law School

Selected Publications

Articles

• Amicus Incorporated, 52 MITCHELL HAMLINE L. REV. 402 (2026)
• Big Deal: Using Transactional Assignments to Teach Persuasion in the Legal Writing Curriculum, 36 THE SECOND DRAFT, no. 3, 2024
• Contracting for Social Change, 32.3 UNIV. OF MIAMI BUS. L. REV 255 (2024)
• Transactional Skills for Tomorrow, 25 TENN. J. BUS. L. 769 (2024)
• In Business We Trust, 23 WAKE FORST J. BUS. & INTELL. PROP. L. 227 (2023).
• Litigation Bias, 101 OREGON L. REV. 51 (2022)
• Transactional Artificial Intelligence, 26:2 J. OF THE LEGAL WRITING INST. 273 (2022)
• Transactional Technology, 23 TENN. J. BUS. L. 361 (2021)
• Deal Me In: Leveraging Pedagogy to Teach Transactional Skills in the First Year Legal Research and Writing Program, 21 U.C. DAVIS BUS. L.J. 125 (2020)

Book Chapters

Chapter 13, Teaching Transactional Skills in First Year Doctrinal Courses (and Beyond), LAWYERING SKILLS IN THE DOCTRINAL CLASSROOM: USING LEGAL WRITING PEDAGOGY TO ENHANCE TEACHING ACROSS THE LAW SCHOOL CURRICULUM (Tammy Oltz, ed., January 2021)

Bar Admittance

Massachusetts