C. THOMAS (TOM) MILLER
Practice Areas
Mr. Miller's practice is focused in construction law, employment, and business litigation. He also has significant experience in insurance defense, products liability, appellate advocacy, fraud, auto rental law, and medical malpractice defense.
Licenses
He is licensed to practice before all Kentucky courts, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United States.
Experience
Mr. Miller has handled numerous construction defect and contract disputes, employment discrimination and wrongful termination claims, personal injury lawsuits, and other general civil litigation, contact drafting, negotiation, and consulting. Highlights include successful cable rate litigation before the FCC and successful oral argument before the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Kentucky Court of Appeals. In 2001, Miller represented one of only three anti-kickback relators the United States chose to join in its successful multi-district False Claims Act litigation against Columbia/HCA. In 2006, he successfully represented a private government contractor and its employee in the employment litigation styled Osborn v. Haley 549 U.S. 225 (2007), filing a merits brief (co-authored by Duncan Pitchford and Richard Roberts of WRHS) and appearing at counsel table before the Supreme Court of the United States. (Links to the Osborn Opinion and Brief appear below).
Background
Tom is an Alabama native and Murray State graduate who worked in music and banking in Nashville and Louisville before earning his law degree from Vanderbilt University. He served as law clerk to the Hon. U.S. District Judge Edward H. Johnstone (sitting in Paducah and Louisville) from 1992-1994, and practiced with a regional defense firm and its successors in Paducah and Louisville from 1994-2000. He joined Whitlow, Roberts, Houston & Straub as a Member in 2000.
Education
Mr. Miller earned the Bachelor of Music degree from Murray State University in 1981, and the Jurisprudence Doctorate from Vanderbilt University Law School in 1991. At Vanderbilt, he received the American Jurisprudence Award in Commercial Paper, and the Bureau of National Affairs Law Student Award.
Associations and Service
Tom is a member of the American Bar Association's Construction Industry Forum, the Kentucky Bar Association's Construction and Employment practice sections, and the Western Kentucky Construction Association. He is an appointed member of the Evidence Rules Review Commission for the Supreme Court of Kentucky, and serves as Immediate Past President of the Paducah Symphony Orchestra Board of Directors. He was a member of the Orchestra's original horn section from 1979-1981, and is active in the music program at Paducah's First Presbyterian Church.