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 Bob
Thomas is a 1980 magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University
and a 1985 cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School. He is a member
of the bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the State of Maryland,
and the District of Columbia. After a judicial clerkship for U.S. District
Judge Walter E. Black, Jr. in the District of Maryland in 1985-86, Mr.
Thomas began his career at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C.
From 1989 to 1997, he served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District
of Maryland, where he concentrated on the criminal prosecution of white-collar
fraud matters. He was awarded the E.P.A. Bronze Award for outstanding
contribution to the government's efforts in United States v. Wilson
& Interstate General Company, a federal Clean Water Act prosecution.
In 1997, Mr. Thomas returned to private practice.
Since
establishing Thomas & Associates in Boston in 2000, Mr. Thomas
has continued to concentrate in areas of law involving fraud-related issues.
The practice is comprised of whistleblower (qui tam) litigation,
white-collar defense, and special prosecution of labor racketeering cases
as part of a government-mandated clean-up effort. Mr. Thomas was recently
appointed to the Criminal Justice Act panels for both the federal District
of Massachusetts as well as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
SUMMARY
Practice
Areas: Whistleblower Litigation; Medicare Fraud and Abuse; Health
Care Fraud; Qui Tam
Litigation; False Claims Act; White Collar Criminal Defense; Grand Jury
Practice; Government
Contracts; Litigation.
Admitted:
1986, Maryland; 1987, District of Columbia; 2000, Massachusetts
Law
School: Harvard University, J.D., cum laude, 1985.
College:
Princeton University, B.A., magna cum laude, 1980.
Career
Highlights :
Law Clerk to Hon. Walter E. Black, Jr., U.S. District Court, District
of Maryland, 1985-1986.
Assistant
U.S. Attorney, District of Maryland, 1989-1997.
Formerly with: Covington & Burling, 1986-1989; Comey, Boyd & Luskin,
1997-1999; Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, 1999-2000.
E.P.A. Bronze Award for outstanding contribution to the government's efforts
in United States v. Wilson & Interstate General Company
Founder, Thomas & Associates, 2000.
Panelist, Criminal Justice Act for both the federal District of Massachusetts
as well as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
ISLN:
903179551.
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