Thomas Bond

Thomas M. Bond is the founder and managing partner of The Kaplan/Bond Group in Boston, Massachusetts, a plaintiff-only litigation practice. A trial lawyer and proctor in admiralty, he concentrates on maritime death and injury cases and also handles construction, product liability, automobile and other personal injury matters in state and federal courts.

Bond has argued or briefed more than 20 appeals, including matters before the U.S. Supreme Court, the First Circuit, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and the Massachusetts Appeals Court, and he has secured reversals at the U.S. Supreme Court, the First Circuit and the Appeals Court. He earned a bachelor’s degree summa cum laude from Northeastern University in 1982 and his law degree from Suffolk University Law School in 1985.

He served as president of the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys for 2025-2026 and is now its immediate past president, and he led the Massachusetts Bar Association as president in 2021-2022. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court appointed him to the board of the Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation. He has lectured on admiralty law at Suffolk University Law School and has presented at the Tulane Admiralty Law Institute and the American Association for Justice.