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G. Thomas Curran, Jr.

Senior Counsel

About Tom

Tom helps individuals, businesses, professional service providers, health care providers, and municipalities with complex disputes, contract negotiations, and legal strategy. He has extensive experience in litigation, commercial contracting, and advising on high-stakes legal matters, including multi-million-dollar lawsuits involving complex construction and engineering issues, bankruptcy matters, breaches of contract, and other disputes.

Before joining Underberg & Kessler, Tom held a senior legal role with a large, global, publicly traded architecture, engineering, and consulting company, where he was responsible for managing litigation and professional liability claims, professional services agreements, and risk management. This background helps him approach legal solutions with a practical understanding of business operations, cost/benefit analysis, compliance obligations, and organizational priorities.

At a prior law firm, Tom gained valuable experience helping financial institutions, bankruptcy trustees, sureties, homeowners’ and condominium associations, and other business clients handle numerous bankruptcy and creditors’ rights and commercial litigation cases. Tom has also provided various in-house training programs on due diligence, contracts, ethics, risk management, and other topics.

Professional & Community Involvement

  • Monroe County Bar Association, member, Health and Wellbeing Committee and Ethics Committee, Co-Chair of Ethics Committee
  • Rochester Engineering Society, member
  • Highland Park Conservancy, Board member
  • JustCause, Volunteer attorney
  • Hillsborough County Bar Association, Bar Leadership Institute Class of 2015, former member and past Co-Chair of Community Service Committee and Member Services Committee
  • Hillsborough Education Foundation, former member and past Vice Chair, Teaching Tools Committee

Awards & Recognitions

  • 2017 Florida Super Lawyers Rising Star Honoree
  • Recipient of the 2013-2016 Pro Bono Lapel Pin Award from the 13th Judicial Circuit Pro Bono Committee, H.A.V.E a Heart Program

Education

  • Western Michigan University,
    Cooley Law School, J.D., (cum laude)
  • SUNY Brockport, B.S., (magna cum laude)

Admissions

  • Florida
  • New York State
  • US District Courts – Western District of New York
“As a former in-house counsel for a large corporation, I’ve been in the client’s shoes as well as the lawyer’s. It’s important to me to be responsive, efficient, and effective in delivering legal solutions that align with the client’s strategic goals.”
G. Thomas Curran, Jr.

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