Tad Thomas

Tad Thomas is the founder and managing partner of Thomas Law Offices, a plaintiffs’ firm based in Louisville, Kentucky, that he grew from a solo practice into a multistate firm with offices in Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri and Iowa. He represents injured people and families in catastrophic personal injury, medical malpractice, nursing home neglect and abuse, product liability, insurance bad faith and trucking cases.

Thomas served as president of the American Association for Justice for 2022-2023 and remains on its Board of Governors. He is also a past president of the Southern Trial Lawyers Association and is the 2026 president of the Kentucky chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates. He has held court-appointed leadership roles in mass tort and multidistrict litigation, including the Just For Men and fluoroquinolone litigation, and in Kentucky’s Risperdal and GranuFlo cases.

Before building the firm, he was an assistant deputy attorney general for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, overseeing divisions that included civil and environmental law, consumer protection and Medicaid fraud. He earned his law degree cum laude from Salmon P. Chase College of Law at Northern Kentucky University in 2000 and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Georgetown College. He is admitted in Kentucky, New York, Illinois and Ohio and before the U.S. Supreme Court, and he has chaired the Louisville Free Public Library Advisory Commission.