Tom advises corporations, institutions, and individuals facing complex and politically-sensitive government investigations and related criminal, civil, and regulatory proceedings.

Tom’s practice focuses on advising clients in all aspects of congressional investigations and other government inquiries, including extensive document and information discovery, the defense of interviews with regulators and congressional committee staff, the drafting of congressional testimony, the preparation of witnesses in advance of congressional hearings and other proceedings, and the coordination of related public messaging. Tom draws on his experience representing clients facing complex and high-profile government oversight to assist companies and individuals in all manner of other sensitive criminal investigations, civil litigation, and critical negotiations. He has also actively advised clients in connection with parallel internal investigations, compliance matters, and in inquiries led by the Department of Justice, federal financial regulators, inspectors general, and state attorneys general.

Tom serves as an adjunct professor at Fordham Law School, where he teaches a course on congressional oversight and investigations. He has also served as an adjunct professor on the same subject at Georgetown University Law Center.

Before joining Akin as an associate, Tom served for several years as a policy consultant and a public policy specialist in Akin’s lobbying & public policy section, focusing on congressional investigations. In this capacity, he provided strategic research, analysis, and media visibility for clients in numerous congressional investigations and other federal and state inquiries, including a prominent major league baseball team in connection with investigations into stadium financing and multiple clients in investigations related to the 2008 financial crisis.

Tom received his J.D. cum laude in May 2012 from William & Mary School of Law where he was a member of the William & Mary Law Review.