About Tad
Tad Thomas built his legal foundation in the late 1990s. He graduated from Georgetown College in 1997 with a B.A. in political science and earned his J.D. from Salmon P. Chase College of Law at Northern Kentucky University in 2000. Fresh out of law school, he moved quickly into practice and into the classroom.
His early career combined private practice and teaching. In 2000 he opened a solo practice under the name Tad Thomas, Lawyer At Law and took a post as an adjunct professor at Salmon P. Chase College of Law. Those parallel roles gave him immediate exposure to both courtroom work and legal education. In 2008 he joined the Office of the Kentucky Attorney General as an Assistant Deputy Attorney General, a position that added government litigation to his résumé. In 2012 he became a partner at Thomas Law Offices, a firm he remains affiliated with today.
Throughout his career Thomas has been active in professional organizations. He has been a member of the Kentucky Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Louisville Bar Association and the Kentucky Justice Association since 2000. He joined the Southern Trial Lawyers Association in 2007. He has also maintained a long relationship with the American Association for Justice, where he has served in multiple roles. Those roles have included committee leadership, participation on the Board of Governors and service on finance and retirement oversight panels. He held the chairperson role for an AAJ committee from 2010 to 2011 and earlier served on convention and law school committees in the mid-2000s.
Peers and colleagues have seen him shift between private practice and public service. The move to the Attorney General’s office broadened the types of matters he handled and exposed him to state-level litigation strategy. Returning to private practice and joining a partnership in 2012 allowed him to combine those government-law perspectives with civil trial experience earned in his solo years.
Outside the office Thomas has remained engaged in the legal community through continuing education and committee work. He has been listed as an education coordinator and has participated in AAJ political action and small-firm sections. His activity in those groups reflects ongoing involvement rather than a single area of volunteer work.
He is licensed in Kentucky and New York and continues to practice at Thomas Law Offices. His current work centers on trial practice and civil litigation at Thomas Law Offices.
