20 Feb 2026
BakerHostetler Expands West Coast Team, Adds PFAS and Mass Torts Litigator Adam Baas in San Francisco
"BakerHostetler has hired Adam Baas as a partner in its San Francisco Litigation Practice Group and on the firm’s Environmental and Product Liability and Toxic Tort teams. Baas joins from an Am Law 10 firm with more than 20 years’ experience in high‑stakes toxic tort, product liability and environmental litigation, and is a leading litigator on emerging contaminants such as PFAS, ethylene oxide and 6PPD. His addition furthers BakerHostetler’s West Coast expansion, where the firm has added over 120 attorneys in the past five years."
Transaction summary: Adam Baas has joined BakerHostetler’s San Francisco office as a partner in the firm’s Litigation Practice Group and as a member of its Environmental and Product Liability and Toxic Tort teams. He joined BakerHostetler from an Am Law 10 firm and brings more than two decades of experience in toxic tort, product liability and environmental litigation, compliance and enforcement counseling and defense, including over a decade working on emerging contaminants such as PFAS, ethylene oxide and 6PPD. The hire is presented as part of BakerHostetler’s continued West Coast growth (more than 120 attorneys added over five years, including seven laterals in 2025).
Lawyers named in the press release:
- Adam Baas — partner; Litigation Practice Group; member of the Environmental and Product Liability and Toxic Tort teams; practice areas include toxic tort, product liability, environmental litigation, environmental compliance and enforcement counseling and defense; noted experience with emerging contaminants (PFAS, ethylene oxide, 6PPD).
No other individual lawyers or named counsel from the Am Law 10 firm are identified in the press release; several other laterals are referenced generically (three trademark and brand protection partners and two real estate partners) but are not named.