Thomas Starks is an Associate in Freeman Mathis & Gary’s Pittsburgh office. Mr. Starks’ practice focuses on defense claims in the areas of Labor & Employment and Commercial Litigation.
Before coming to FMG, Mr. Starks interned with Judge Julie R. Rubin in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland during which time he drafted the court’s opinions addressing various topics, including class certification, personal jurisdiction, exhaustion of administrative remedies, failure to state a claim, and other legal issues. These matters were part of a wide range of topics from antitrust, banking, contract, employment, tort, and class actions. After that, he interned at a Hawaii firm where he played a substantive role in a defamation trial and identified a matter of first impression that was adopted by the court. Mr. Starks spent over a decade as an entrepreneur producing educational workshop series across the world and operating a distribution company.