“My trial practice brings me exhilarating and demanding challenges every day. The greater the obstacles, the higher the risk, the more enjoyment I get from helping people solve their problems. My enthusiasm for my work translates into a strong dedication to my clients.”
Tom has provided extensive litigation advice and trial representation to major national and international companies for many years. In this capacity, he has handled significant cases involving antitrust claims, commercial fraud, contract disputes, business torts, and other matters covering a wide variety of his clients' litigation and trial needs. Tom is also lead counsel representing a major out of state medical research institute defending against multiple, complicated medical professional liability claims.
An experienced trial attorney, Tom has defended and won cases in state and federal courts in Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. He is also licensed in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Illinois, and represents clients throughout New England in both federal and state courts.
Tom lives with his family in Cape Elizabeth, Maine.
REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS:
MacVane v. S.D. Warren Co, 641 F.Supp 2d. 54 (D. Me. 2009)
Town of Farmington v. Tudor Ins. Co., 1994 U.S. App. LEXIS 24103 (1st Cir. 1994)
Murphy v. Maine, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 62783 (D.R.I. 2007)
Aumand v. Dartmouth Hitchcock Med. Ctr., 2007 DNH 95 (D.N.H. 2007)
Connors v. Town of Brunswick, 2000 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 12253 (D. Me. 2000)
Geary v. Stanley, 2007 ME 133, 931 A.2d 1064
York Golf & Tennis Club v. Tudor Ins. Co., 2004 ME 52, 845 A.2d 1173
Mallar v. Penn-America Ins. Co., 2003 ME 143, 837 A.2d 133
Decker v. New England Public Warehouse, 2000 ME 76, 749 A.2d 762
PUBLICATIONS:
Contributing Author, Unfair-Weather Friends: Social Networking and Pretrial
Discovery, Defense Research Institute, For the Defense, 2010
Contributing Author, Fifty-State Compendium on the Law Governing the
Duty to Warn, Defense Research Institute, 2008
Contributing Author, Understanding the New E-Discovery Rules, Defense Research Institute, 2006
Can—Should—FDIC v. Singh Survive the Amendments to the Federal Rules of
Civil Procedure, Maine Bar Journal, Vol. 22 No. 2, Spring 2007
A Proposal for Broader Access to Treating Physicians During Litigation, Maine
Bar Journal Vol. 19 No. 2, Spring 2004
Death Knell for the Lockstep Doctrine? 21 Loy. U. Chi. L.J. 693, 1989
