Overview & Experience
Insights & Activities
Thomas P. Gorman is a partner in the firm's Litigation Department and chair of the firm’s Probate Litigation Practice Group.
Tom represents plaintiffs and defendants in a wide variety of matters. Tom’s litigation experience includes representing public bodies as well as private corporations, individuals, and associations in litigation matters such as probate and trust matters, insurance, personal injury, commercial disputes and torts, real estate, construction, and intellectual property.
Experience
- Four charitable beneficiaries who, with two of four trustees (separately represented) defended against claims that those two trustees should be removed from the trust at issue, and presenting claims for removal of the other two trustees
- Individual income beneficiaries, with the consent of the charitable remainder beneficiaries, for the removal of the trustee and in objections to his separate account as executor
- Charitable beneficiary for the rescission of trust amendments procured through undue influence and asserting breach of fiduciary duty claims against the trustee
- Defending against objections to the Executors’ First and Final Account, including as to the attorneys’ fees for the estate administration, in a $12 million estate
- Defended a will contest involving claims of undue influence against the named executor in a will entered into by the executor’s cousin
- Defending against an effort to modify a stock custodial agreement involving stock assigned to clients by a party in a preceding divorce action
Accolades
- Included in Massachusetts Super Lawyers
- Listed in The Best Lawyers in America©
- Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rated: A/V Preeminent®
Speaking Engagements & Publications
- 2017 Client Counseling Competition, judge, American Bar Association, February 2017
- “ADA and Other One Compliance for Real Estate Owners,” Americans with Disability Act Seminar, panelist, June 25, 2015
- “At crossroads of fiduciary, municipal law: ‘The Woodward School,'” Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, November 2014
- “Steps for trustees to avoid litigation from beneficiaries,” Boston Business Journal, November 2008
- Authored articles for the ABA Journal, the Massachusetts Bar Association’s Lawyers Journal, and the Boston Bar Journal
- Lectured in the areas of expert testimony, trial practice, consumer law and writing for lawyers for Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education and the Massachusetts Bar Association
- Spoken on public retirement issues for the Massachusetts Association of Contributory Retirement Systems
Related Blog Posts
Memberships
- Boston Bar Association
- Former Chair of the Litigation Section Appellate Committee
- Rhode Island Bar Association
Community Involvement
- Town of Boxborough Zoning Board of Appeals
- Former Member
- Town of Norfolk Board of Library Trustees
- Former Member
- Boxborough Chapter of the Boy Scouts of America
- Former Adult Committee Chair
