His initial exposure to a document intensive case came several years later when he assisted several public interest firms in Boston with a class action voting rights suit brought on behalf of patients at state hospitals. Over the years he has been involved in asbestos litigation, the Keating case, the San Diego Civic Center construction litigation, California class actions against crematoriums, national breast implant litigation, tobacco litigation on behalf of the Attorney General of Texas and various phases of the Enron litigation.

Tom's involvement with large cases led him to become familiar with dozens of various software applications for litigation support and he has both designed databases and trained legal staffs in their use on many of the cases mentioned above. This work has involved both public and private law firms of all sizes across the nation and, over the past several years, has expanded to include issues involving electronic discovery.

A frequent lecturer on the subject of legal technology, Tom has been on the faculty of numerous national CLE providers and has taught college level courses on legal technology. He is currently a member of the American Bar Foundation and former member of the Governing Council of the Law Practice Management Section of the ABA and the ABA TechShow Planning Board. A prolific writer on the subject, with articles in numerous legal publications, Tom has been the Editor of several legal newsletters as well as author of The Automated Law Firm, a guide to computer systems and software published by Aspen Law & Business and The Lawyers Guide to Summation, published by the ABA. In addition, he is currently a member of the Advisory Board of Law Technology News, the award winning technology newspaper published by American Lawyer Media.

Sometime over the past 20 years, Tom also found time to return to law school and acquire a J.D. He and his best friend Gayle hope someday to have their own float with their nineteen year old son, Seamus, in a Mardi Gras parade down the Mississippi down in New Orleans, where Tom now resides.