Rebecca Adelman, Esq.

Rebecca Adelman, Esq. has spent more than three decades at the forefront of claims and risk management — and over time, her work has evolved from defending claims to helping organizations prevent them. Today she advises clients on enterprise risk strategy, claims management, and proactive risk reduction, and serves as general counsel to multiple organizations. She founded Adelman Firm, PLLC in 2001 and built it into a certified Women's Business Enterprise, drawing on a litigation-defense foundation that spans long-term care and aging services, medical malpractice, professional and management liability, labor and employment, and alternative dispute resolution. Licensed across Arkansas, Illinois, Mississippi, and Tennessee, she is widely recognized as a thought leader on risk, regulatory compliance, and quality improvement — with roots deepest in healthcare and senior living and a reach that increasingly extends into other regulated and high-stakes sectors.

Convinced that the most effective risk strategy begins long before a claim is ever filed, Rebecca founded Guide Path, a national and international certification and training platform that aligns expectations among residents, families, and providers in senior living communities — work that now includes a global pilot program. She also created and hosts the Senior Living Empower Hour, a monthly webinar advancing innovation, empathy-based leadership, and operational excellence in aging services, and is a sought-after speaker and podcast guest across the healthcare, insurance, and senior care sectors.

Rebecca holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, a Master's in Economics from the Université d'Aix-Marseille II in France, and a Bachelor's in Economics and French from the University of Michigan. Her work reaches well beyond healthcare: she is a mediator and arbitrator with American Health Lawyers Association and National Arbitration and Mediation, associate faculty with Ariadne Labs, and a certified NBA players' agent — reflecting a career that has consistently moved past the conventional boundaries of legal practice.

That same human-centered conviction shapes how Rebecca views work itself. She coined the term "work-life being" — a deliberate reframing of the familiar "work-life balance" that rejects the idea of a perfect, teetering equilibrium in favor of presence, integration, and sustainability. Through her writing, including for Thrive Global, and her ongoing speaking and advocacy, she champions well-being and mental stamina in high-pressure professions, encouraging leaders to build careers and organizations that people can genuinely sustain over a lifetime.

Her honors include Lawyers of Distinction (2026), recognition as one of Senior Housing News' Executives to Watch, America's Top 100 Civil Defense Litigators, one of the 100 Most Influential Memphians, Memphis Business Journal's Super Women in Business, and CIO Views' Top 10 Empowering Women Leaders, among many others. Across every role, her message stays consistent: real risk management — like a life well lived — is rooted in communication, trust, and human-centered care, and the organizations that lead with those values are the ones that endure.