Adams Hendon Carson Crow & Saenger, P.A. traces its beginnings to Joseph Shepard Adams, who first practiced law in 1872. In 1904 Mr. Adams founded the firm of Adams & Adams with his eldest son, John Sneed Adams, and in 1907 Mr. Adams' second son, Junius G. Adams, joined the firm.

The senior Mr. Adams retired from the firm in 1908 upon his election as Judge of Superior Court. Over the next sixty-five years, Mr. Adams' sons and their sons continued the practice until Junius G. Adams, Jr. joined with George Ward Hendon and Philip G. Carson in 1972 to form Adams, Hendon & Carson. The Adams firm represented E.W. Grove in the development of the Grove Park Inn and surrounding residential areas, and in the development of Battery Park Hill. The firm also represented the estate of George W. Vanderbilt and was instrumental in organizing Biltmore Forest Company, which developed the golf course and residential development now known as the Town of Biltmore Forest and the lands now making up the Biltmore Park planned community.

In the 36 years since Ward Hendon and Philip Carson joined with the grandson of the firm's founder, the firm has expanded to its current number of ten attorneys.