Tom Brown, a strategic thinker and skilled advocate, represents insurers, technology companies, transportation companies, and individual professionals across a wide range of complex civil litigation matters.
Tom understands both the practical ramifications of business disputes and the legal strategies necessary to achieve their favorable resolution. He has handled matters involving every stage of litigation, from early-stage case assessment and planning, through discovery and dispositive motions, to trial, post-trial motions, and appellate briefing. He identifies and deploys legal arguments that can resolve matters at early phases of a case, before discovery or trial.
Tom represents insurers of all sizes in sophisticated third-party coverage and bad faith matters, frequently involving eight-figure healthcare professional liability, long-term care facilities liability, commercial general liability, and directors-and-officers liability coverage disputes. He has also represented local and national transportation companies in multiple matters in Pennsylvania state and federal courts and in arbitration. He has been listed multiple times by peer-reviewed The Best Lawyers in America as “One to Watch” for Commercial Litigation, in recognition of early-career professional excellence in private practice.
Before joining the firm, he clerked for the Honorable Anthony J. Scirica of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Tom was Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, where he provided high-level policy, operational and strategic advice, and worked as a business consultant for Fortune 500 clients at McKinsey & Company before he began his legal career.
Representative Matters
- Prevailed on summary judgment on behalf of Liberty Mutual Insurance Company in cutting-edge insurance coverage dispute, generating what Law360 called “a much-needed boost to insurers in the ongoing battle” over interpretation of “bump-up” provisions in directors-and-officers policies.
- Secured summary judgment on behalf of a law firm and lawyer clients in a decade-long multi-million-dollar legal malpractice lawsuit in Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas.
- Secured unanimous victory before Superior Court of Pennsylvania on behalf of appellee transportation company in contentious personal injury dispute, with the court rejecting appellant’s arguments about adequacy of jury verdict and evidentiary rulings.
- Successfully defended a complex insurance coverage action brought against Twin City Fire Insurance Company, prevailing before the Eighth Circuit in a unanimous, precedential opinion.
- Second-chaired trial in a dispute over an alleged oral contract in Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas.
- Litigated and successfully resolved contract dispute with radiology group practice on behalf of outpatient radiology center and minority shareholder doctor.
- Obtained substantial recovery of disability benefits for homeless veteran in pro bono appeal of Department of Veterans Affairs determination regarding service connection.