Tom is co-chair of the Creditors' Rights, Workouts & Bankruptcy Group at Ober|Kaler. He represents secured and unsecured creditors, debtors, guarantors and bankruptcy trustees in workouts and litigation. Tom's experience includes the first involuntary bankruptcy in Maryland under the 1978 Bankruptcy Code. He handles confessed judgment lawsuits, suits on guaranties, collections of judgments, loan workout agreements, Chapter 7, 11 and 13 bankruptcies for individuals and businesses, dischargeability, automatic stay, preference and fraudulent conveyance litigation, and bankruptcy sales and dischargeability litigation.

Tom represents clients in the purchases and sales of small businesses. He has been involved in the acquisition of $250 million in partnership interests from bankrupt relatives' creditors, the representation of general partners for settlement of $25 million in a partially secured bank consortium debt for a life care community, repossession and later sale of railcars from the North American Car Corp., Itel and other reorganizations in Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York City and California, the acquisition of tangible and intangible assets from retail clothing stores and mail order businesses, representation of trustee for operating and selling an apartment complex, representation of a bank for state court receivership of a television station, and representation concerning office buildings, shopping centers, subdivisions and warehouses from Philadelphia to Texas.

Court of Appeals of Maryland

United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Maryland

United States Courts of Appeal for the Third and Fourth Circuits

United States District Court for the District of Maryland

United States Supreme Court

University of Maryland School of Law, J.D., 1976

Maryland Law Review, Notes & Comments Editor, 1975-1976

Maryland Law Forum, Editor-in-Chief, 1974-1975

Student Bar Association Executive Counsel, 1973-1974

Harvard College, A.B., cum laude, 1973

Thesis, "Congress Responds to Planning, Programming and Budgeting Systems"

American Bankruptcy Institute

American Bar Association

Commercial Law League of America

Maryland Attorney Grievance Commission, Inquiry Committee, Member,1993-present

Maryland State Bar Association

Listed in Maryland Super Lawyers, Bankruptcy & Creditor / Debtor Rights, 2007-2010

Contributing author, "Estate Planning and Asset Preservation," MICPEL, 1993

Author, "Maryland's Local Property Tax Circuit Breaker Should Be A Local Income Tax," Maryland Law Forum, 1975

Co-author with The Honorable Harry J. McGuirk, "Medical Malpractice and the Maryland Legislature," Maryland Law Forum, 1976

Blum, Yumkas, Mailman, Gutman & Denick, P.A., Member

Villa Julie College, Paralegal Program, Collection Law and Bankruptcy, Instructor

Schwartz, Greenblatt & Rafferty, Partner

Piper & Marbury, Litigation Department, Bankruptcy Group; Associate, Labor and General Litigation

United States District Court, Law Clerk to The Honorable James R. Miller, Jr.

Maryland State Senate, Legislative Aid to The Honorable John Carroll Byrnes

Ober, Kaler, Grimes & Shriver, Law Clerk