Tom is a partner and the practice coordinator of the business group in the Mobile office. He is a senior tax lawyer in the firm and has practiced before Probate Courts, State Courts, U. S. District Courts, and Tax Courts. His areas of practice include taxation, corporate and estate tax, estate planning, qualified retirement plan, corporate, mergers and acquisitions, foreign tax planning, securities, and health care. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in American in areas of Employee Benefits, Tax, and Trusts and Estates. He is also among a select group of lawyers listed in Alabama Super Lawyers. Tom has been awarded the "AV" rating by the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, which is the highest possible rating for legal ability and ethical standards. Tom was with Lyons, Pipes & Cook in Mobile before the firm joined Phelps Dunbar. Tom was an officer in the U.S. Navy from 1970-71, where he was stationed on the U.S.S. Lexington, CVT-16.

• New York University, LL.M in Taxation, 1975
• Samford University, Cumberland Law School, J.D., 1974
• University of Virginia, B.A., 1970

• Member: Alabama State Bar; Alabama Bar Examiner in Wills, Trusts and Estates and Federal Income Taxation (1981-1985); Mobile Estate Planning Council (President, 1991-1992); Annual Tax Institute; Alabama Bar Institute for Continuing Legal Education; Alabama Federal Tax Clinic (Former Board Member and President, 2002); A Fellow in the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel
• Admitted: 1974, Alabama; 1975, U.S. Tax Court and U.S. District Court, Southern District of Alabama

• Author, Conservation Easements: Preserving the Environment and the Family Estate
• Author, Deferred Charitable Giving
• Author, Section 529 College Education Savings Plans
• Author, Deemed Sale Election Can Reduce Capital Gain Tax