Tom Nolan is co-chair of Skadden’s West Coast Litigation practice. He is widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading trial attorneys and has extensive trial experience representing corporations and individuals in both complex civil and criminal litigation in state and federal courts. Mr. Nolan is a former federal prosecutor and served as chief of fraud and special prosecutions in the Los Angeles United States Attorney’s Office. He has been a member of the defense bar since 1979.

Mr. Nolan’s extensive trial experience includes complex civil litigation matters. Mr. Nolan has represented clients, both plaintiffs and defendants, in matters involving antitrust and intellectual property issues, as well as in class action lawsuits and litigation involving a wide variety of contract disputes, unfair business practices and consumer fraud. He also has advised clients in matters involving the subprime mortgage industry. Over the years, he has obtained jury verdicts of more than one billion dollars for his clients as well as defeating claims exceeding two billion dollars asserted against his corporate clients.

Mr. Nolan also has represented corporations and individuals, including directors and officers, in criminal and SEC enforcement matters and in internal investigations involving FCPA allegations, securities fraud, money laundering, RICO, health care fraud and insider trading violations.

Mr. Nolan is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and a fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers (admission limited to 500 trial attorneys in the United States). Mr. Nolan has served as a lawyer representative to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference. As a frequent lecturer on trial advocacy issues, Mr. Nolan has served as an adjunct professor of law teaching trial advocacy at Loyola University School of Law at Los Angeles. Mr. Nolan has been recognized as a “leading lawyer” by Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business, and he is one of only 22 attorneys listed in the top tier of national trial attorneys by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, which also ranks him in its top band for general commercial litigation. Mr. Nolan has been named “Litigator of the Week” by The AmLaw Litigation Daily for his trial success in limiting damages awarded in the “Barbie v. Bratz” doll-war case and also has been named to The Best Lawyers in America for the last 10 years. Mr. Nolan’s litigation work was profiled in The American Lawyer in an article that named Skadden as a finalist for “Litigation Department of the Year.” In addition, Mr. Nolan has been profiled as one of the “Top 100” most influential lawyers in California in each of the past 12 years and one of the “Top 30 Securities Litigators” in California by the Daily Journal.