Tom is an accomplished partner with many years of experience with difficult and complex litigation and with public-private partnerships, construction, and public procurement matters. His practice focuses on construction, public procurement, and general litigation. His substantive areas of experience include technology disputes, construction disputes, government contract disputes, bid protests, environmental claims, business disputes, real estate litigation, construction contracting, public procurement, and public-private partnerships.

He has provided legal services to a number of Virginia public entities on public procurement and construction matters, including the Counties of Arlington, Spotsylvania, and Roanoke, the City of Falls Church, the Town of Leesburg, the Alexandria City Public Schools, Stafford County Public Schools, Loudoun County Public Schools, Chesterfield County Public Schools, Warren County Public Schools and City of Manassas Public Schools.

Tom has assisted a number of Virginia jurisdictions with the Public-Private Education Facilities and Infrastructure Act of 2002 (“PPEA”), including one of the first large PPEA procurements undertaken in the Commonwealth, that by Stafford County and the Stafford County Public Schools, the Alexandria City Public Schools’ T.C. Williams Replacement Project, and projects for the Warren County Public Schools, the Chesterfield County Public Schools, the Frederick County Public Schools, the Northumberland County Public Schools, the Patrick County Public Schools, the County of Roanoke, the County of Spotsylvania, and The Winchester Parking Authority.

In addition, Tom has lectured and written extensively on public procurement, construction, and the PPEA. In 2006, Virginia Super Lawyers magazine named Tom a Super Lawyer for his General Litigation practice. Tom is a Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve - retired, Airborne and Ranger qualified.