Meet Burlington VT Attorney Thomas H. Somers

Thomas H. Somers

Tom practices labor and employment law in Vermont, Maine and throughout New England. During his twenty-plus years of practicing law, Tom primarily has represented management clients, including non-profit organizations and municipalities. Tom also represents executives in the negotiation of executive employment agreements, severance agreements and other exit packages. Tom is experienced in class actions, wrongful discharge, labor arbitration, collective bargaining, wage and hour, ADA, civil rights, sexual harassment litigation, union elections, unfair labor practice, and representation and other proceedings before the NLRB, VLRB and OSHA.

Primary Areas of Practice

• All aspects of Labor and Employment counseling and litigation
• Class Actions
• Complex Civil Litigation

Education

• Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
• Catholic University of America (B.A./J.D.)

Bar Admissions and Affiliations

• Member of the bars of Vermont, Maine and the District of Columbia, United States Courts of Appeals for the First and District of Columbia Circuits and the United States Supreme Court
• Contributing author to The Fair Labor Standards Act, a comprehensive treatise on wage and hour law published by the American Bar Association