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Thomas M. Susman
Retired Partner
Ropes & Gray
One Metro Center
700 12th Street, NW, Suite 900
Washington, DC 20005-3948
T + 1-202-508-4620
F + 1-202-383-7770
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Practice
Tom Susman was formerly a partner in the Washington, DC office of Ropes & Gray, where he conducts a diverse legislative and regulatory practice. He retired from the firm on April 30, 2008.
Professional Experience
Tom handles legislative matters on behalf of both large and small clients – businesses, trade associations, and nonprofit organizations – in a variety of industries. He has been active in seeking enactment of legislation, in obtaining appropriations for specific projects, in blocking or amending legislative proposals, and in counseling targets of congressional investigations. Typical projects have involved homeland security, energy, tax code amendments, regulatory reform, intellectual property protection, environmental protection, access to government information, Native American issues, and antitrust law reform.
Tom's regulatory practice extends to a wide variety of matters, including freedom of information and privacy issues, healthcare, energy efficiency, maritime safety, and regulation of organ procurement. He also counsels clients on antitrust and trade regulation matters, with an emphasis in the health care area, and represents clients responding to federal and state antitrust investigations.
Before joining Ropes & Gray in 1981, Tom served on Capitol Hill for over 11 years. He was Chief Counsel to the Senate Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure and General Counsel to the Antitrust Subcommittee and to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Honors & Awards
- The Best Lawyers in America (2007)
- United States Court of Federal Claims, "Golden Eagle Award” for Outstanding Service to the Court (Sept. 2002)
Professional & Civic Activities
Tom is in the House of Delegates of the American Bar Association, is past chairman of the ABA Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Section, and served on the Board of Governors of the ABA. He is President of the D.C. Public Library Foundation, a Trustee and chair-elect of the National Judicial College, and on the Board of the National Conference on Citizenship. He is also on the Advisory Boards of the National Security Archive and the NFIB Legal Foundation, and a member of the American Law Institute. Tom is chair of the Ethics Committee of the American League of Lobbyists, co-editor of the ABA’s Lobbying Manual (2005), and coauthor of the BNA Portfolio on “Business Uses of the Freedom of Information Act." He teaches Lobbying and Legislative Process at the American University’s Washington College of Law, has frequently been called upon to testify before Congress, and has consulted with the governments of Shanghai, China and Peru on open government information and lobbying disclosure laws.
Memberships & Affiliations
- American Bar Association
- American Law Institute
Bar Admissions
- Massachusetts, 1985
- Washington, D.C., 1968
- Texas, 1967
Courts
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, 2002
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 1991
- U.S. Court of Federal Claims, 1983
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit, 1982
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, 1980
- Supreme Court of the United States, 1973
- U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, 1972
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1968
Clerkships
- Honorable John Minor-Wisdom, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit
Education
- 1967,
J.D., high honors, University of Texas School of Law; Editor-in-chief of the Texas Law Review
- 1964,
B.A., Yale University
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