Tom began at Holland & Knight LLP in Washington, D.C. — first as a full-time law clerk while attending law school at night, then as an associate. He worked on litigation arising from high-profile aviation disasters, including the crash of TWA Flight 800, and second-chaired jury and bench trials and arbitrations in multimillion-dollar commercial and casualty matters involving satellites, weapons defense systems, maritime shipping, and oil and gas pipelines and refineries. Those years taught him the mechanics of trial work and the art of telling a persuasive story to a jury.

He moved his practice to Colorado in 2004, where he tried multiple jury trials in Colorado state and federal court, argued eminent domain and governmental immunity appeals in both Colorado appellate courts, and obtained two multimillion-dollar judgments against on behalf of a satellite television provider.

In 2009 he became a partner at Lathrop & Gage LLP, representing oil and gas exploration and production companies, midstream pipeline operators, and natural gas utilities in commercial, construction, land use, right-of-way, and environmental disputes.

In 2015 he returned to Holland & Knight as a founding partner of the firm’s new Denver office. Over the next eight years he built a national practice representing pipeline and transportation companies, investor-owned and municipal utilities, oil and gas producers, government contractors in litigation and GAO bid protests, airlines, railroads, engine manufacturers and repair stations, and companies defending consumer class actions under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.

In 2023, Tom left big-firm practice to build a litigation boutique that focuses on winning trials and providing exceptional value to clients.