Thomas Converse Bright

Thomas Bright concentrates his practice on antitrust class action litigation involving price fixing and securities class action litigation involving fraud.  He is also one of the Partners who oversees the firm’s new matter department.

Before joining the firm in 2002, Mr. Bright worked for an antitrust, intellectual property and business litigation firm in San Francisco whose clients were small to medium-sized businesses including publicly listed companies.

Prior to his relocation to San Francisco, Mr. Bright engaged in complex business and insurance litigation for four years in the Southern California office of a national firm based in New York.  In addition to litigating primarily commercial liability coverage disputes, tort, employment and business matters, Mr. Bright was an entertainment lawyer and assumed various roles in attorney fee matters, ranging from performing internal audits to serving as counsel in litigated matters.

After law school, he worked in the motor sports division of International Management Group, the country’s largest sports agency.

Mr. Bright graduated from Vanderbilt University in Nashville Tennessee with a Bachelor of Arts degrees in History.  He received his Juris Doctorate from the Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu, California.  During his final year of law school, he was an extern under Justice Mildred Lillie for the California Court of Appeals, Second Appellate District, Division Seven.

Mr. Bright is a member of the State Bar of California, the State Bar of New York and the District of Columbia Bar.  Mr. Bright is also admitted to practice in the Southern District of California, Central District of California, Eastern District of California and Northern District of California.