Tom is Barclay Damon’s Torts & Insurance Practice Group leader, overseeing more than 70 professionals throughout the firm. An experienced trial lawyer, Tom primarily focuses his practice on products liability, complex personal-injury, commercial litigation, and professional-liability litigation matters, including medical, legal, and accounting malpractice and directors’ and officers’ liability. He has tried numerous cases to verdict in both federal and state courts, including appellate practice, and has represented clients before the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
Tom’s representative clients include multinational, publicly traded manufacturing companies, large underwriters of commercial and specialty lines of insurance, and privately held and public companies. Tom defends products liability and personal-injury claims on behalf of manufacturers and retailers on a national and regional basis. Tom also provides counsel to small, mid-sized, and large privately held and publicly traded companies, including accounting firms; energy-supply (including renewable energy) companies; aggregate mining companies; food distributors, wholesalers, and processors; trucking and transportation companies; manufacturers; information technology companies; and real estate companies.
Tom is a certified federal court mediator for the US District Court for the Western District Court of New York, a member of the Local Rules Committee for the US District Court for the Western District of New York, and a certified continuing education provider for Florida and Texas. Tom has written and lectured on a number of topics, including professional liability, risk management, trial practice, and ethics.