Tom represents individuals, businesses, and municipalities in all of the state and federal courts of Massachusetts. He has represented clients in a wide variety of business, employment, environmental, and civil rights matters, among other types of disputes. He focuses on counseling businesses in commercial litigation, including contract and employment cases. Tom has also worked with educational and non-profit entities on a range of matters including internal governance and litigation issues.

Published work

• A Primer on Sentencing Concepts for District Court Practitioners, Thomas P. Campbell and Lee J. Gartenberg, Massachusetts Bar Association Section Review, Winter 2000.

Representative appellate cases

• Mandel v. Town of Orleans, 326 F.3d 267 (1st Cir. 2003).
  • In an appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, Tom obtained the reversal of a federal court injunction barring a Town, its Police Chief, and two officers from enforcing child custody orders issued by Maryland and Massachusetts courts. The federal trial court judge later recused himself, and Tom obtained dismissal of the entire case against his clients.
• Fisher v. Lint, 69 Mass. App. Ct 360 (2007).
  • In a case before the Massachusetts Appeals Court, Mr. Campbell successfully obtained dismissal of a civil rights lawsuit against his client, who had been sued by a former co-worker. The Appeals Court ordered the other party to pay the legal costs incurred by Mr. Campbell’s client.
• Grieco v. Williams, 99 Mass. App. Ct. 1107 (2021).
  • In a case concerning the production and marketing of a documentary film, Tom obtained the dismissal of the defendant’s counterclaims before trial. At trial he won a verdict awarding more than $1 million to his client. On appeal, the Court dismissed the defendant’s arguments and awarded costs and fees to Tom’s client.
• Barron v. Kolenda, 491 Mass. 408 (2023).
  • Tom co-wrote his client’s brief in this appeal of a Superior Court judgment. The case involved a citizen’s constitutional right to petition the government. After the brief was filed in the Appeals Court, the Supreme Judicial Court took the case to render its own decision. The Supreme Judicial Court reversed the judgment, struck down the Town’s rules for public participation in Town government meetings, and ordered the claims against a defendant Select Board member to go forward, in a significant extension of the free speech rights of Massachusetts citizens.