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About Tom Jacob
Tom helps military and veterans bring personal injury lawsuits against the government with Whitehurst, Harkness, Brees, Cheng, Alsaffar, & Higginbotham, PLLC. He serves as a co-chair of AYLA-Austin Bar Judicial Program, is a member of the Calvert Inn of Court, and a mock trial coach at UT. Previously, he clerked at the Fifth Circuit. In law school, he was editor-in-chief of the Baylor Law Review. Mr. Jacob has taken on a wide range of medical malpractice and personal injury cases, including failure to diagnose cancer, birth injuries, and traumatic brain injuries. In 2012, he tried to judgment a failure to diagnose septic hip case in Mississippi. In 2014, he tried a case in the First Circuit arising out of the failure to diagnose and treat a stroke. He’s participated in appeals at the United States Supreme Court, argued before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and worked on class actions across the country.
Practice Areas
Credentials
Education
- Baylor Law School
- J.D. (2009)
- University of Texas - Austin
- B.A. (2005)
- Government
Bar Admissions
- State Bar of Texas # 24069981
- Member
- Capital Area Trial Lawyers Association
- Member
- Calvert Inn of Court
- Associate
- Austin Bar Association
- Member
- Austin Young Lawyers Association
- Member
- Texas Trial Lawyers Assocation
- Member
- American Association for Justice
- Member
Professional Experience
- Partner
- National Trial Law 2014 - Current
- Attorney
- Archuleta, Alsaffar, & Higginbotham, P.C. 2010 - 2014
- Law Clerk
- Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals 2009 - 2010
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