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Experience

Tom Bondurant is admitted to practice law in Virginia and the District of Columbia. In 2008 he was inducted as a Fellow into the American College of Trial Lawyers.

• Since entering private practice in October 2009, Representation of individuals and corporations on criminal matters in the areas of Tax Evasion;Foreign Corrupt Practice Act;Food,Drug & Cosmetic Act (food borne illness and pharmaceutical issues); Internal Banking Crimes; Money Laundering; Structuring; Program Fraud; Customs Violations; Insurance Fraud; Solicitation to Commit Murder; Counterfeiting; Firearms Offenses; Mine Safety & Health Act Offenses; Narcotics; and, Post-Conviction Actions.
• Representation of individuals and corporations on civil matters in the areas of the Food, Drug & Cosmetic Act (pharmaceutical issues); Internal Revenue Service matters (assessments, abatements); False Claims Act; Non-Compete Litigation; Customs Violations; Qui Tam actions; Cyber Security/Theft matters; Banking; Medical Malpractice; Healthcare Matters; Patent; Insurance Defense; Malicious Prosecution; and, Defamation.
• Conducted Internal Investigations in the Banking, Healthcare, Construction and Salvage Industries involving, among other issues, the Foreign Corrupt Practice Act; Various Banking Issues; and, Embezzlement.
• Employed until October 2009 as a Federal Prosecutor for 30 years in the Western District of Virginia. At varying times occupying the duties of Criminal Chief, Senior Litigation Counsel, Coordinator for Anti-Terrorism Advisory Committee and Lead Prosecuting Attorney for the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force
• Appointed as a Special Prosecutor for the Eastern District of Virginia, the District of Columbia, the Southern District of West Virginia and the Northern District of West Virginia
• Tried over 200 Jury Trials in United States District Courts and directed thousands of investigations. Conducted investigations and trials for:
• Ten Racketeering (RICO) cases
• Numerous complex healthcare, government fraud, tax evasion, money laundering, identity fraud and other white collar fraud cases
• Corruption cases involving public officials and police
• Cases involving organized crime
• Regulatory cases
• International cases including South American narcotics organizations and European customs matters
• Violent crime cases involving, among others, capital murder, arson, bombings, robbery and assaults
• Civil rights cases
• Tried hundreds of Bench Trials in United States Magistrate's Court
• Argued dozens of appeals in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
• Served as a Law Clerk for United States District Judge Glen Williams in Abingdon, Virginia
• Former Editor in Chief of the University of Richmond Law Review (1979)

Education

• University of Richmond, T.C. Williams School of Law: J.D. 1979
• Emory & Henry College: B.A. cum laude, 1976