Attorneys

Thomas F. Urban II


Of Counsel

phone: 703.299.3440
fax: 703.299.3441

Practice Areas


Education

U.S. Naval Academy, attended 1981-83

Texas A&M University, B.S. Aerospace Engineering 1985

Georgetown University Law Center, J.D. magna cum laude, 1990

Associate Editor, Georgetown Law Journal, 1989-90


Admissions and Affiliations

Virginia Bar - 1996

District of Columbia Bar - 1992

Texas Bar - 1990

West Virginia Bar - 2007

United States Supreme Court

U.S. Court of Appeals - Fifth Circuit

U.S. District Courts - District of Columbia, Eastern District of Virginia, Eastern District of Virginia Bankruptcy, Maryland, Southern District of Texas, Southern District of West Virginia

U.S. Court of Federal Claims


Memberships

American Association
for Justice

American Constitution Society

Virginia State Bar

Fairfax County Bar Association

Holy Trinity Catholic Church

Thomas F. Urban II began his career as an attorney for the large national law firms of Williams & Connolly and King & Spalding, defending such international corporations as General Electric Aircraft Engines, Novartis Pharmaceuticals, and USAA Insurance Company. Since he began practicing law in 1991, Mr. Urban has engaged in high-stakes litigation in all parts of the United States.

Mr. Urban recently won a jury verdict in Fairfax County Circuit Court in a case where his client was awarded approximately $850,000 in compensatory damages, attorneys' fees, and punitive damages. Mr. Urban, the sole counsel for plaintiff in that case, convinced the jury to find the defendant liable for fraud and pierced the corporate veil between the defendant and the company that he used to commit fraud.

Presently, Mr. Urban represents various clients in class action cases, RICO actions, and complex mortgage fraud cases. In the past, Mr. Urban has served as national coordinating counsel for a drug company in products liability litigation, successfully defending his client in a jury trial in Galveston, Texas, and prevailing in a summary judgment motion on Daubert grounds in Austin, Texas. His other representations have included issues involving antitrust, qui tam, automobile dealer-distributor, sex and race discrimination, Americans with Disabilities, attorney ethics, and First Amendment disputes. In addition, Mr. Urban has maintained a substantial pro bono practice, representing preschool children with autism in Northern Virginia, pursuing a prisoners' rights case before the D.C. Court of Appeals, filing an opposition to a petition for certiorari in a highly publicized case for the Southern Poverty Law Center in the U.S. Supreme Court, and representing TransAfrica protestors in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Mr. Urban's practice has included a wide variety of civil litigation, previously including matters involving computer crimes and the information superhighway, as well as complex commercial and products liability cases. He has also served as an attorney in the Special Litigation section of the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division.

Mr. Urban attended the U.S. Naval Academy from 1981 to 1983 and received his bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1985. In 1990, he graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center, having served as associate editor of the Georgetown Law Journal and being elected to the Order of the Coif. He clerked for Judge Carolyn D. King, formerly chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Mr. Urban is a member of the U.S. Supreme Court bar, the bars of Texas, the District of Columbia, Virginia, and West Virginia, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and the U.S. District Courts for the District of Columbia, the Eastern District of Virginia, the Southern District of Texas, and the Southern District of West Virginia, as well as the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.

Mr. Urban has co-authored several articles regarding computer crime and computer law, including a March 25, 1996 article in the National Law Journal regarding the protection of businesses on the information superhighway. In addition, he was the author of the computer crimes chapter of Business and Legal Guide to Online and Internet Law (Glasser LegalWorks 1997).