Tom received his Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School and his B.A. and M.A. from New York University. During law school, he served as an editor for the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law and externed for Judge Laura Taylor Swain of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Tom clerked for Judge Richard C. Wesley of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit prior to joining Williams & Connolly in 2020.