Legal Experience That Stands Out
Tom’s practices include a wide range of healthcare, business torts, employment, contract, and civil rights disputes. He has represented plaintiffs and defendants in healthcare disputes relating to alleged fraud, upcoding, ERISA, and contractual disputes; private educational institutions in federal civil rights actions; and private and public corporations in contract and other complex commercial disputes. Tom has represented clients at both the trial and appellate stage of litigation, and in both state and federal courts.
Prior to joining the firm in 2016, Thomas clerked for the Hon. Thomas I. Vanaskie in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He assisted with legal research and opinion drafting on many notable cases, including Binderup v. AG of United States, 836 F.3d 336 (3d Cir. 2016) and the dissenting opinion in NCAA v. Governor of N.J., 832 F.3d 389 (3d Cir. 2016) (en banc), rev’d Murphy v. NCAA, 138 S. Ct. 1461 (2018).
While in law school, Thomas served as Research Editor for Temple Law Review and as Research Assistant for Professor Tom C.W. Lin, assisting Professor Lin with the publication of five research papers concerning financial regulation, behavioral finance, and emerging innovations in legal services. In the Fox School of Business, Thomas participated in the Global Immersion program in China and worked for the International Finance Corporation under a management consulting externship.
Representative Matters
- Plaintiff and appellate counsel to a private equity company in a breach-of-contract and fraudulent transfer actions relating to the sale of its interests in a specialty finance company, in which the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania granted summary judgment in favor of plaintiff and entered a multimillion-dollar judgment, which was upheld by the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
- Defense and appellate counsel to a private residential boarding school in several related actions alleging that the school’s enrollment and housing policies violated the Americans with Disabilities Act and Fair Housing Act, in which the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania granted summary judgment in favor of the school in all cases, which were upheld by the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
- Defense and appellate counsel to a health insurer in an action brought by multiple private emergency medical practices, in which the trial court granted a motion to dismiss with prejudice, which was upheld by the state appellate court.
- Defense counsel to national residential real estate company in an action brought by former agent in which the trial court granted a defense motion to compel arbitration, and in an action relating to an alleged breach of an agreement of sale in which the trial court granted summary judgment in defendant’s favor.
- Appellate counsel to a bi-state agency in an action brought by a disappointed bidder, in which the Third Circuit vacated the District Court’s order granting summary judgment to the disappointed bidder and ordered the District Court to dismiss the case with prejudice.
- Appellate counsel to a packaging machinery supplier and distributor in the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, in which the Third Circuit reversed the District Court’s grant of a new trial and reinstated a multimillion-dollar jury verdict for breach of contract.
- Defense counsel to an international video surveillance and systems technology company in an employment dispute, in which the court granted preliminary objections and dismissed the case with prejudice for lack of personal jurisdiction.
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