James G. Thomas joined Neal & Harwell in 1982. He served a two-year clerkship for The Honorable Thomas A. Wiseman, Jr., United States district judge for the Middle District of Tennessee, Nashville.

Mr. Thomas has experience in a broad range of civil and criminal litigation matters, primarily in the federal district and appellate courts. In addition to Tennessee state and federal courts, Mr. Thomas is admitted to the bars of the United States Supreme Court and the United States Courts of Appeals for the Fifth, Sixth, Ninth and Eleventh Circuits.

Mr. Thomas graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vanderbilt University with a B.A. in German in 1976. He earned his J.D. in 1980 from Vanderbilt University School of Law, where he was an associate editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review.

Notable Cases

Johnson v. Bell, Warden, 525 F.3d 466 (6th Cir. 2008)

Hamilton v. Carell, 243 F.3d 992 (6th Cir. 2001)

United States v. Stephens, 118 F.3d 479 (6th Cir. 1997)

In re Federal Grand Jury Proceedings, 89-10 (MIA), 938 F.2d 1578
(11th Cir. 1991)