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colt / wallerstein LLP

Three Lagoon Drive, Suite 260
Redwood Shores, CA  94065
(650) 453-1980 (main)
(650) 472-8078 (fax)

info@coltwallerstein.com
www.coltwallerstein.com

Thomas Wallerstein
Partner
(650) 453-1982 (direct)
twallerstein@coltwallerstein.com

Education:

University of Pennsylvania Law School (J.D., cum laude, 1999)
    Keedy Cup Moot Court Finalist
    1999 Journal of Constitutional Law:
        Executive Articles Editor, 1998-1999
        Associate Editor, 1997-1998  

San Francisco State University (B.A., Philosophy 1996)
    Dean’s List

Butler University (1987-1989)
    Debate Scholarship
    Dean’s List
    Most Promising Political Science Major
    Most Promising Pre-Law Major

Prior Associations:

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, LLP, Associate, 2004 - 2009
Hangley Aronchick Segal & Pudlin, Associate, 2000-2004
Law Clerk to the Hon. Peter G. Verniero, New Jersey Supreme Court, 1999-2000

Presentations:              

California State Court Procedure, MCLE

Full Biography:

Tom is a 1999 cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he served as the Executive Articles Editor of the Journal of Constitutional Law. 

Tom was a finalist in the school’s moot court competition, resulting in an oral argument before U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito (then on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals), Ninth Circuit Judge A. Wallace Tashima and New Jersey Supreme Court Chief Justice Deborah Poritz.  Based on his performance, Tom was invited to serve as the first judicial law clerk for Justice Peter G. Verniero of the New Jersey Supreme Court.

Tom entered private practice as an associate in a prestigious Philadelphia firm where he gained extensive experience in a wide variety of high-profile matters, including representing two Philadelphia mayors and trying a federal jury trial.

In 2004, Tom moved back to the Bay Area where he had been living before law school, and joined the litigation powerhouse Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges.  Tom quickly gained effusive praise for his courtroom skills, and he was generally the lead or sole associate on a variety of cases in which the amount at stake reached into the tens of millions of dollars.

Tom attended Butler University from 1986-1989 on a debate scholarship, and studied philosophy, political science and Russian.  At Butler, Tom made Dean’s List every year, won numerous debate awards, and was awarded scholarships for “most promising prelaw major” and “most promising political science major.”  He served on the school’s judicial council.

In 1989, Tom first moved to the Bay Area and in 1996 he received his undergraduate degree in philosophy from San Francisco State University, where he made Dean’s List.

Tom lives in San Francisco with his wife, two children and his dog Pug.



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