Thomas J.Piskorski
Partner
Labor & Employment
tpiskorski@seyfarth.com
Tom relentlessly focuses on achieving his clients’ goals with quality, efficiency, and value.
More About Tom
The legal risks facing employers are great in number and complex in substance. Tom wisely navigates the many federal, state, and local laws, while respecting and achieving the operational needs and goals of his clients. With over 40 years of experience, there are few labor, employment, or employee benefits issues Tom has not confronted. Further, he litigates cases in state and federal trial and appellate courts throughout the country.
Tom’s broad-based labor and employment experience includes traditional labor law (collective bargaining, labor contract administration, arbitrations, and National Labor Relations Board proceedings) and employment law (civil rights and employment discrimination; wage-hour matters; federal, state, and local leave laws; and state statutory and common law). Tom has appeared and litigated in administrative agencies throughout the country, with extensive experience with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the National Labor Relations Board, and state and federal Departments of Labor. Tom also has deep experience and knowledge in cases involving non-compete agreements, restrictive covenants, and trade secrets.
The breadth and depth of Tom’s practice makes him a valued counselor to his clients. Many of his client relationships have existed for years, through achieving outstanding results and exceeding expectations on cost and value. Tom's professional accomplishments are reflected by his membership in the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and his top-tier employment lawyer rating by Chambers USA (2002-2023).
Prior to joining Seyfarth, Tom served as a law clerk to Senior District Judge Robert A. Grant, United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana.
Tom’s broad-based labor and employment experience includes traditional labor law (collective bargaining, labor contract administration, arbitrations, and National Labor Relations Board proceedings) and employment law (civil rights and employment discrimination; wage-hour matters; federal, state, and local leave laws; and state statutory and common law). Tom has appeared and litigated in administrative agencies throughout the country, with extensive experience with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the National Labor Relations Board, and state and federal Departments of Labor. Tom also has deep experience and knowledge in cases involving non-compete agreements, restrictive covenants, and trade secrets.
The breadth and depth of Tom’s practice makes him a valued counselor to his clients. Many of his client relationships have existed for years, through achieving outstanding results and exceeding expectations on cost and value. Tom's professional accomplishments are reflected by his membership in the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and his top-tier employment lawyer rating by Chambers USA (2002-2023).
Prior to joining Seyfarth, Tom served as a law clerk to Senior District Judge Robert A. Grant, United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana.
- JD, University of Notre Dame
Member, Law Review - MBA, University of Notre Dame
High Honors - BS, Marquette University
Mathematics and Economics
Magna Cum Laude
Chick Evans Scholarship (Western Golf Association)
- Illinois
- US Supreme Court
- US Court of Appeals, First Circuit
- US Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit
- US Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
- US Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit
- US Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit
- US Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit
- US Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit
- US Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
- US Court of Appeals, DC Circuit
- US District Court, Northern District of Illinois (Trial Bar)
- US District Court, Northern District of Illinois
- Illinois Supreme Court
Related Services
- Class & Collective Actions
- Complex Discrimination Litigation
- Employment
- Employment Litigation
- ERISA & Employee Benefits Litigation
- OFCCP & Affirmative Action Compliance
- Wage Hour Audit, Assessment & Advice
- Wage Hour Class & Collective Actions
- Wage Hour Government Compliance & Enforcement Actions
- Workplace Privacy & Biometrics
- Trial
Related Key Industries
Blogs
Tom has obtained favorable judgments in a wide variety of individual and class action claims. Representative court decisions include:
- Misclassification of independent contractors - Lubinski v. Hub Group Trucking, Inc., Case No. 15-6095 (6th Cir., June 8, 2017) (class action claims under Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act, alleging misclassification of employees as independent contractors, dismissed based on contractual choice-of-law provision; case earlier transferred from Illinois federal district court to Tennessee federal district court based on contractual choice-of-venue provision)
- Violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act and state wage-hour laws - Grosswiler, et al. v. Freudenberg-NOK Sealing Technologies, Case No. 15-4024 (6th Cir., March 2, 2016) (summary judgment affirmed in Fair Labor Standards Act collective action alleging “off-the-clock” overtime claims) and Barefield v. Village of Winnetka, 81 F.3d 704 (7th Cir. 1996) (summary judgment awarded in favor of employer in a 38-plaintiff lawsuit seeking overtime pay, under Illinois and FLSA law, for police officer roll call time during a ten year time period)
- Discrimination and retaliation - Davis, et al. v. Ricketts, et al., No. 2388 (8th Cir., Aug. 27, 2014) (affirming summary judgment finding no integrated enterprise between Opportunity Education and Hugo Enterprises and dismissal of intentional interference with employment claim against Joe Ricketts) and Greviskes v. Universities Research Association, Inc. (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), 417 F.3d 752 (7th Cir. 2005) (affirming dismissal of discrimination lawsuit following evidentiary hearing establishing plaintiff’s discovery misconduct; client awarded $69,000 in sanctions and costs at district court level; client also awarded sanctions for Plaintiff’s appeal)
- Employee benefits - Burke v. Zurich American Insurance Company, 2012 IL App (2d) 111320-U (Sept. 12, 2012) (summary judgment in employer’s favor affirmed in “earned bonus” claim under Illinois law)
- Enforcement and violation of restrictive covenants - Beasley v. Hub City Texas, L.P., 2003 WL 22254692 (State of Texas First District Court of Appeals, September 29, 2003) (temporary injunction issued against former company president for violating non-competition agreement affirmed; additionally, recovered $412,500 in settlement)
- Union Relations - LCF, Inc. and Sprint Corp. v. NLRB, 129 F.3d 1276 (D.C. Cir. 1997) (successfully overturned NLRB finding, 322 N.L.R.B. No. 137, that plant closure was motivated by union organizational campaign; handled the case on appeal) and Amoco Corp. v. NLRB, 217 F.3d 869 (D.C. Cir. 2000) (overturned NLRB finding that employer had committed unfair labor practice by amending medical benefit plan; court rejected application of “waiver” doctrine and agreed with our position that the case was controlled by the “covered by the contract” doctrine)
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- Listed in Best Lawyers in America (Woodward/White Inc.) Employment Law - Management (2006, 2011-2024); Labor Law - Management (2006, 2011-2024); Litigation - Labor and Employment (2006, 2017-2024)
- Recognized as a Leading Lawyer and ranked Band 1 for Labor & Employment (Illinois) (2002-2020) and Band 2 for Labor & Employment (Illinois) by Chambers USA (2021-2023)
- Ranked Band 2 for Labour & Employment (USA) by Chambers Global (2015-2022)
- Inducted into the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers (2006)
- Listed in Illinois Leading Lawyers for Management Labor Law (Law Bulletin Media)
- Best Attorneys Network (Labor and Employment)
- American Bar Association, Section of Labor and Employment Law
- Chicago Bar Association (Labor and Employment Law Committee; Federal Civil Procedure Committee)
- Illinois State Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section Council
- Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Bar Association
Tom has published many articles in various journals and law reviews, including:
- Co-Author, The Proper Role of Res Judicata and Collateral Estoppel in Title VII Suits, 79 Mich. L. Rev. 1485 (1981) (cited by the United States Supreme Court in Kremer v. Chemical Construction Corp., 456 U.S. 461, 486 n. 2 (1982)), the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Buckhalter v. Pepsi-Cola General Bottlers, Inc., 768 F.2d 842, 849 n. 49 (7th Cir. 1985), and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Moosavi v. Fairfax County Board of Education, 666 F.2d 58, 60 n. 1 (4th Cir. 1981)) (also cited in a number of journals and law reviews, including 84 Nw. U. L. Rev. 774 (Winter 1990), 65 Ind. L. J. 367 (Spring, 1990), 81 Nw. U. L. Rev. 220 (Winter 1987), 71 Iowa L. Rev. 1473 (July 1986), 70 Minn. L. Rev. 979 (May 1996), 57 S. Cal. L. Rev. 840 (September 1984), 51 Fordham L. Rev. 1374 (May 1993), 58 Ind. L. J. 59 (Winter 1982))
- Co-Author, Employment Discrimination Law in the Public Sector, Employment Discrimination (Ill. Inst. for CLE, 2019)
- Co-Author, NLRB Breathes New Life Into Employee Participation Committees, Vol. 27, No. 3 Employee Relations Law Journal at p. 127 (Winter 2001)
- Co-Author, Levitz Furniture: NLRB Rewrites the Book on Employer Efforts to Oust Incumbent Unions, Vol. 27 No. 2 Employee Relations Law Journal at p. 31 (Autumn 2001)
- Co-Author, Navigating Through the Final and New COBRA Regulations, Employee Relations Law Journal Vol. 25, No. 3 at p. 77 (Winter 1999)
- Co-Author, Geissal v. Moore Medical Corp. - The Supreme Court Resolves Dual Coverage Issue, Benefits Law Journal Vol. 11, No. 3 at p. 97 (Autumn 1998) (republished in the ISBA Employee Benefits Section Newsletter, April 1999 Vol. 17 No. 2)
- Author, O’Connor v. Consolidated Coin Caterers Corp. - Supreme Court Establishes New Prima Facie Burden For ADEA Plaintiffs To Satisfy, Vol. 22 No. 2 Employee Relations Law Journal at p. 95 (Autumn 1996)
- Co-Author, Managing the Risk and Liability of Wrongful Employment Practices through Insurance, Vol. 21 No. 2 Employee Relations Law Journal at p. 7 (Autumn 1995)
- Author, Minimizing Employee Benefits Litigation Through Effective Claims Administration Procedures, Vol. 20 No. 3 Employee Relations Law Journal at p. 421 (Winter 1994-95)
- Author, The Department of Human Rights’ Power to Issue Complaints, Illinois Bar Journal, Vol. 82 No. 2 at p. 78 (February 1994)
- Co-Author, Private Arbitration As The Exclusive Means Of Resolving Employment-Related Disputes, Vol. 19, No. 2 Employee Relations Law Journal p. 205 (Autumn 1993) (cited in 109 Harvard L. Rev. 1568 (May, 1996), 9 Admin. L. J. American U. 1007 (1996), 25 Seton Hall L. Rev. 1496 (1995), 23 Hofstra L. Rev. 913 (Summer, 1995), 47 Baylor L. Rev. 591 (Summer, 1995), 54 La. L. Rev. 1533 (July, 1994))
- Author, Electromation: A Setback To Employee Participation Programs, 9 The Labor Lawyer 209 (1993) (cited in 40 St. Louis L. Rev. 119 (Winter 1996), 63 U. Cin. L. Rev. 1379 (1995), D. Devaney (NLRB Member), Much Ado About Section 8(a)(2): The NLRB and Workplace Cooperation After Electromation and du Pont, Stetson Law Review, Vol. XXIII, No. 1 at p. 43 n. 21 (Fall 1993))
- Author, Reinstatement Of The Sexual Harasser: The Conflict Between Federal Labor Law And Title VII, Vol. 18, No. 4 Employee Relations Law Journal p. 617 (Spring 1993) (cited in 69 Temple L. Rev. 303 (Spring 1996), 21 Pepperdine L. Rev. 447 (1994), 73 Nebraska L. Rev. 812 (1994))
- Author, The Growing Judicial Acceptance Of Summary Judgments In Age Discrimination Cases, Vol. 18, No. 2 Employee Relations Law Journal p. 245 (Autumn 1992) (cited in 81 Cornell L. Rev. 530 (1996), 74 North Carolina L. Rev. 267 (1995), 93 Mich. L. Rev. 2229))
- Author, Fortino v. Quasar Co.: Are Japanese-Owned Companies Immune From Title VII?, Vol. 18, No. 1 Employee Relations Law Journal p. 61 (Summer 1992)
- Co-Author, The Civil Rights Act of 1991: An Overview And Analysis, 8 The Labor Lawyer 9 (1992) (cited in 39 Villanova L. Rev. 123 (1994), 24 New Mexico L. Rev. 89 (Winter, 1994), 42 Cleveland State L. Rev. 539 (1994))
- Author, A Comprehensive Review of Seventh Circuit Labor and Employment Law Decisions, 1981-82 Term, 59 Chi. Kent L. Rev. 625 (1983)
Thomas is a "go-to litigator" whose clients say "is very smart, fearless and tenacious—a total straight shooter and a fantastic lawyer;" as well as "very down-to-earth, approachable and accessible." —From Chambers USA
Tom relentlessly focuses on achieving his clients’ goals with quality, efficiency, and value.
More About Tom
The legal risks facing employers are great in number and complex in substance. Tom wisely navigates the many federal, state, and local laws, while respecting and achieving the operational needs and goals of his clients. With over 40 years of experience, there are few labor, employment, or employee benefits issues Tom has not confronted. Further, he litigates cases in state and federal trial and appellate courts throughout the country.
Tom’s broad-based labor and employment experience includes traditional labor law (collective bargaining, labor contract administration, arbitrations, and National Labor Relations Board proceedings) and employment law (civil rights and employment discrimination; wage-hour matters; federal, state, and local leave laws; and state statutory and common law). Tom has appeared and litigated in administrative agencies throughout the country, with extensive experience with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the National Labor Relations Board, and state and federal Departments of Labor. Tom also has deep experience and knowledge in cases involving non-compete agreements, restrictive covenants, and trade secrets.
The breadth and depth of Tom’s practice makes him a valued counselor to his clients. Many of his client relationships have existed for years, through achieving outstanding results and exceeding expectations on cost and value. Tom's professional accomplishments are reflected by his membership in the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and his top-tier employment lawyer rating by Chambers USA (2002-2023).
Prior to joining Seyfarth, Tom served as a law clerk to Senior District Judge Robert A. Grant, United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana.
Tom’s broad-based labor and employment experience includes traditional labor law (collective bargaining, labor contract administration, arbitrations, and National Labor Relations Board proceedings) and employment law (civil rights and employment discrimination; wage-hour matters; federal, state, and local leave laws; and state statutory and common law). Tom has appeared and litigated in administrative agencies throughout the country, with extensive experience with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the National Labor Relations Board, and state and federal Departments of Labor. Tom also has deep experience and knowledge in cases involving non-compete agreements, restrictive covenants, and trade secrets.
The breadth and depth of Tom’s practice makes him a valued counselor to his clients. Many of his client relationships have existed for years, through achieving outstanding results and exceeding expectations on cost and value. Tom's professional accomplishments are reflected by his membership in the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and his top-tier employment lawyer rating by Chambers USA (2002-2023).
Prior to joining Seyfarth, Tom served as a law clerk to Senior District Judge Robert A. Grant, United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana.
- JD, University of Notre Dame
Member, Law Review - MBA, University of Notre Dame
High Honors - BS, Marquette University
Mathematics and Economics
Magna Cum Laude
Chick Evans Scholarship (Western Golf Association)
- Illinois
- US Supreme Court
- US Court of Appeals, First Circuit
- US Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit
- US Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
- US Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit
- US Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit
- US Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit
- US Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit
- US Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
- US Court of Appeals, DC Circuit
- US District Court, Northern District of Illinois (Trial Bar)
- US District Court, Northern District of Illinois
- Illinois Supreme Court
Related Services
- Class & Collective Actions
- Complex Discrimination Litigation
- Employment
- Employment Litigation
- ERISA & Employee Benefits Litigation
- OFCCP & Affirmative Action Compliance
- Wage Hour Audit, Assessment & Advice
- Wage Hour Class & Collective Actions
- Wage Hour Government Compliance & Enforcement Actions
- Workplace Privacy & Biometrics
- Trial
Related Key Industries
Blogs
Tom has obtained favorable judgments in a wide variety of individual and class action claims. Representative court decisions include:
- Misclassification of independent contractors - Lubinski v. Hub Group Trucking, Inc., Case No. 15-6095 (6th Cir., June 8, 2017) (class action claims under Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act, alleging misclassification of employees as independent contractors, dismissed based on contractual choice-of-law provision; case earlier transferred from Illinois federal district court to Tennessee federal district court based on contractual choice-of-venue provision)
- Violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act and state wage-hour laws - Grosswiler, et al. v. Freudenberg-NOK Sealing Technologies, Case No. 15-4024 (6th Cir., March 2, 2016) (summary judgment affirmed in Fair Labor Standards Act collective action alleging “off-the-clock” overtime claims) and Barefield v. Village of Winnetka, 81 F.3d 704 (7th Cir. 1996) (summary judgment awarded in favor of employer in a 38-plaintiff lawsuit seeking overtime pay, under Illinois and FLSA law, for police officer roll call time during a ten year time period)
- Discrimination and retaliation - Davis, et al. v. Ricketts, et al., No. 2388 (8th Cir., Aug. 27, 2014) (affirming summary judgment finding no integrated enterprise between Opportunity Education and Hugo Enterprises and dismissal of intentional interference with employment claim against Joe Ricketts) and Greviskes v. Universities Research Association, Inc. (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), 417 F.3d 752 (7th Cir. 2005) (affirming dismissal of discrimination lawsuit following evidentiary hearing establishing plaintiff’s discovery misconduct; client awarded $69,000 in sanctions and costs at district court level; client also awarded sanctions for Plaintiff’s appeal)
- Employee benefits - Burke v. Zurich American Insurance Company, 2012 IL App (2d) 111320-U (Sept. 12, 2012) (summary judgment in employer’s favor affirmed in “earned bonus” claim under Illinois law)
- Enforcement and violation of restrictive covenants - Beasley v. Hub City Texas, L.P., 2003 WL 22254692 (State of Texas First District Court of Appeals, September 29, 2003) (temporary injunction issued against former company president for violating non-competition agreement affirmed; additionally, recovered $412,500 in settlement)
- Union Relations - LCF, Inc. and Sprint Corp. v. NLRB, 129 F.3d 1276 (D.C. Cir. 1997) (successfully overturned NLRB finding, 322 N.L.R.B. No. 137, that plant closure was motivated by union organizational campaign; handled the case on appeal) and Amoco Corp. v. NLRB, 217 F.3d 869 (D.C. Cir. 2000) (overturned NLRB finding that employer had committed unfair labor practice by amending medical benefit plan; court rejected application of “waiver” doctrine and agreed with our position that the case was controlled by the “covered by the contract” doctrine)
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08/17/2023
210 Seyfarth Attorneys Chosen as Leaders in Their Fields by Best Lawyers in America 2024
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Recognition
06/01/2023
2023 Chambers USA Names 81 Seyfarth Lawyers as Leaders in Business Law; 36 Seyfarth Practices Also Recognized as Leaders in Their Fields
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Aug 18, 2022
Seyfarth Attorneys Named in The Best Lawyers in America 2023
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- Listed in Best Lawyers in America (Woodward/White Inc.) Employment Law - Management (2006, 2011-2024); Labor Law - Management (2006, 2011-2024); Litigation - Labor and Employment (2006, 2017-2024)
- Recognized as a Leading Lawyer and ranked Band 1 for Labor & Employment (Illinois) (2002-2020) and Band 2 for Labor & Employment (Illinois) by Chambers USA (2021-2023)
- Ranked Band 2 for Labour & Employment (USA) by Chambers Global (2015-2022)
- Inducted into the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers (2006)
- Listed in Illinois Leading Lawyers for Management Labor Law (Law Bulletin Media)
- Best Attorneys Network (Labor and Employment)
- American Bar Association, Section of Labor and Employment Law
- Chicago Bar Association (Labor and Employment Law Committee; Federal Civil Procedure Committee)
- Illinois State Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section Council
- Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Bar Association
Tom has published many articles in various journals and law reviews, including:
- Co-Author, The Proper Role of Res Judicata and Collateral Estoppel in Title VII Suits, 79 Mich. L. Rev. 1485 (1981) (cited by the United States Supreme Court in Kremer v. Chemical Construction Corp., 456 U.S. 461, 486 n. 2 (1982)), the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Buckhalter v. Pepsi-Cola General Bottlers, Inc., 768 F.2d 842, 849 n. 49 (7th Cir. 1985), and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Moosavi v. Fairfax County Board of Education, 666 F.2d 58, 60 n. 1 (4th Cir. 1981)) (also cited in a number of journals and law reviews, including 84 Nw. U. L. Rev. 774 (Winter 1990), 65 Ind. L. J. 367 (Spring, 1990), 81 Nw. U. L. Rev. 220 (Winter 1987), 71 Iowa L. Rev. 1473 (July 1986), 70 Minn. L. Rev. 979 (May 1996), 57 S. Cal. L. Rev. 840 (September 1984), 51 Fordham L. Rev. 1374 (May 1993), 58 Ind. L. J. 59 (Winter 1982))
- Co-Author, Employment Discrimination Law in the Public Sector, Employment Discrimination (Ill. Inst. for CLE, 2019)
- Co-Author, NLRB Breathes New Life Into Employee Participation Committees, Vol. 27, No. 3 Employee Relations Law Journal at p. 127 (Winter 2001)
- Co-Author, Levitz Furniture: NLRB Rewrites the Book on Employer Efforts to Oust Incumbent Unions, Vol. 27 No. 2 Employee Relations Law Journal at p. 31 (Autumn 2001)
- Co-Author, Navigating Through the Final and New COBRA Regulations, Employee Relations Law Journal Vol. 25, No. 3 at p. 77 (Winter 1999)
- Co-Author, Geissal v. Moore Medical Corp. - The Supreme Court Resolves Dual Coverage Issue, Benefits Law Journal Vol. 11, No. 3 at p. 97 (Autumn 1998) (republished in the ISBA Employee Benefits Section Newsletter, April 1999 Vol. 17 No. 2)
- Author, O’Connor v. Consolidated Coin Caterers Corp. - Supreme Court Establishes New Prima Facie Burden For ADEA Plaintiffs To Satisfy, Vol. 22 No. 2 Employee Relations Law Journal at p. 95 (Autumn 1996)
- Co-Author, Managing the Risk and Liability of Wrongful Employment Practices through Insurance, Vol. 21 No. 2 Employee Relations Law Journal at p. 7 (Autumn 1995)
- Author, Minimizing Employee Benefits Litigation Through Effective Claims Administration Procedures, Vol. 20 No. 3 Employee Relations Law Journal at p. 421 (Winter 1994-95)
- Author, The Department of Human Rights’ Power to Issue Complaints, Illinois Bar Journal, Vol. 82 No. 2 at p. 78 (February 1994)
- Co-Author, Private Arbitration As The Exclusive Means Of Resolving Employment-Related Disputes, Vol. 19, No. 2 Employee Relations Law Journal p. 205 (Autumn 1993) (cited in 109 Harvard L. Rev. 1568 (May, 1996), 9 Admin. L. J. American U. 1007 (1996), 25 Seton Hall L. Rev. 1496 (1995), 23 Hofstra L. Rev. 913 (Summer, 1995), 47 Baylor L. Rev. 591 (Summer, 1995), 54 La. L. Rev. 1533 (July, 1994))
- Author, Electromation: A Setback To Employee Participation Programs, 9 The Labor Lawyer 209 (1993) (cited in 40 St. Louis L. Rev. 119 (Winter 1996), 63 U. Cin. L. Rev. 1379 (1995), D. Devaney (NLRB Member), Much Ado About Section 8(a)(2): The NLRB and Workplace Cooperation After Electromation and du Pont, Stetson Law Review, Vol. XXIII, No. 1 at p. 43 n. 21 (Fall 1993))
- Author, Reinstatement Of The Sexual Harasser: The Conflict Between Federal Labor Law And Title VII, Vol. 18, No. 4 Employee Relations Law Journal p. 617 (Spring 1993) (cited in 69 Temple L. Rev. 303 (Spring 1996), 21 Pepperdine L. Rev. 447 (1994), 73 Nebraska L. Rev. 812 (1994))
- Author, The Growing Judicial Acceptance Of Summary Judgments In Age Discrimination Cases, Vol. 18, No. 2 Employee Relations Law Journal p. 245 (Autumn 1992) (cited in 81 Cornell L. Rev. 530 (1996), 74 North Carolina L. Rev. 267 (1995), 93 Mich. L. Rev. 2229))
- Author, Fortino v. Quasar Co.: Are Japanese-Owned Companies Immune From Title VII?, Vol. 18, No. 1 Employee Relations Law Journal p. 61 (Summer 1992)
- Co-Author, The Civil Rights Act of 1991: An Overview And Analysis, 8 The Labor Lawyer 9 (1992) (cited in 39 Villanova L. Rev. 123 (1994), 24 New Mexico L. Rev. 89 (Winter, 1994), 42 Cleveland State L. Rev. 539 (1994))
- Author, A Comprehensive Review of Seventh Circuit Labor and Employment Law Decisions, 1981-82 Term, 59 Chi. Kent L. Rev. 625 (1983)
Thomas is a "go-to litigator" whose clients say "is very smart, fearless and tenacious—a total straight shooter and a fantastic lawyer;" as well as "very down-to-earth, approachable and accessible." —From Chambers USA