Tom is well known for his legal work and professional contributions in the area of health care law. He is the immediate past chair of the firm's Health Care Section, which he led for the prior 15 years. He also served on the firm's Board of Directors for a number of years.

Tom has represented many clients in merger or affiliation matters, including Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, the University of Pennsylvania Health System, Conemaugh Health System and Montgomery Hospital Medical Center. He was one of only 176 attorneys throughout the United States, Canada, South America and Europe to be named by clients on the 2009 Client Service All-Star Team, a list compiled by BTI Consulting Group, the leading provider of strategic market research to law firms and professional services firms.

He has lectured and written extensively on a variety of legal issues in the health care field. He has spoken at meetings of the American Health Lawyers Association, National Association of Home Care, the Hospital Association of Pennsylvania Society of Healthcare Attorneys, the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, the Healthcare Financial Management Association, the Pennsylvania Homecare Association and the Dickinson Law School Forum. Tom co-wrote a chapter titled "Retroactive Versus Contemporaneous Reviews," for the book Monitoring & Auditing Practices for Effective Compliance, published by the Health Care Compliance Association. He has been quoted in the media on health care-related legal matters. For more than 10 years, Tom has served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where he teaches health care law and advanced fraud and abuse law.

In addition to his professional memberships, Tom has served on a variety of nonprofit boards of directors.

Formerly associated with the Los Angeles office of a national health law firm, Tom has regularly been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America in the health care law area. In 1994, he also received the Presidents Award from the Pennsylvania Association of Home Health Agencies for outstanding contributions to the home health field. Tom was awarded the 2001 Excellence in Healthcare Law Award by the Pennsylvania Bar Association. In 2002, he was recognized by the Pittsburgh Regional Healthcare Initiative for his service as volunteer legal counsel. Since 2005, he has been consistently selected to the Pennsylvania Super Lawyers^® list,  ranking him among the top 5 percent of Pennsylvania lawyers. Tom was also listed in Legal Media Group's 2005 Guide to the Leading U.S. Healthcare Lawyers.