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Education & Honors
  • The University of Texas School of Law, J.D., with honors, 1999; Order of the Coif; Member, Texas Law Review; Member, American Journal of Criminal Law
  • University of Chicago, B.A., Political Science, 1990
Bar & Court Admissions
  • District of Columbia and Texas
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
  • United States District Courts for the District of Columbia and District of Colorado
  • United States Court of Federal Claims
 
 
  Thomas H.L. Selby
Partner
TEL: 202-434-5066
FAX: 202-434-5029
tselby@wc.com
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Williams & Connolly LLP
725 Twelfth Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20005

   

Tom Selby maintains a broad-spectrum national litigation practice, with particular focus on patent litigation, professional liability defense, and other civil trial and arbitration matters.

Mr. Selby has represented clients in intellectual property disputes over biotech, pharmaceutical, and communications technologies. Mr. Selby has appeared on behalf of a national audit and accounting firm in a number of litigation matters, including arbitration hearings, government investigations, and major civil litigation.  Mr. Selby has also represented clients in investigations by the United States Congress, the Securities & Exchange Commission, and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.  

His recent trial matters include Hatch-Waxman patent litigation on behalf of a major pharmaceutical client, an arbitration hearing on behalf of a public accountancy firm, a successful appearance on behalf of a biotech firm in patent infringement litigation, and a trial with a defense verdict on behalf of a real estate investment trust.

In his pro bono practice, Mr. Selby represents a client on Louisiana's death row in post-conviction proceedings, and tried to a jury a criminal case through the firm's partnership with the Montgomery County Public Defender's office.

Mr. Selby lives in Arlington, Virginia with his wife, Deirdre Doyle, and their two children.


PUBLICATIONS
  • A Primer on Litigating Patent Infringement Claims, 34 Litig. 15-19 (2007).