Bar: 2025

He commenced his legal career as a solicitor at Galbally & O’Bryan, and worked for a number of years at NAAJA as a solicitor-advocate and the manager of the East Arnhem Land practice. Tom has also worked at Legal Aid New South Wales. Before signing the Victorian bar roll, Tom practised at the Northern Territory bar and was a founding member of Mindil Chambers.

Tom holds a master’s degree from UCLA School of Law where he was a Dean's Fellow.

He was also judicial extern for the Honorable David O. Carter of the Federal District Court of Central California, sitting principally in the civil docket.

Tom also worked as a researcher for Professor Angela Riley, and represented the Native Nations Law & Policy Centre at the United Nations in Geneva as an accredited delegate in relation to his research.

Tom accepts work internationally. Most recently he spent a month in northern Myanmar training local lawyers and advising on strategic human rights litigation for an international non-governmental organization.

Tom has spent a number of seasons as the reporting officer representing AFLNT in tribunal hearings. 

Tom holds an Indictable Crime Certificate and is a member of the Criminal Trial Preferred Barrister List.

Tom also accepts work in jurisdictions interstate, and is a member of the New South Wales Legal Aid Indictable Criminal Law Barrister Panel, and the Northern Territory Indictable Legal Aid Panel. 

He read with Judge Anthony Lewis and his senior mentor is Ruth Shann SC.