Thomas A. Clark, a founder of the firm, practices in the areas of business and commercial transactions, commercial real estate, land use, development and financing and environmental matters. He also has many years of experience in the area of commercial litigation, with an emphasis in creditors rights, uniform commercial code and business ownership matters, He has successfully tried to conclusion numerous cases involving creditors rights and related commercial disputes in all of the state trial courts in the firm's practice area, as well as in the United States District Courts in New Jersey and the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He is special environmental counsel in southern New Jersey for several major multi national corporations, and is general counsel to numerous small and mid-size businesses in the firm’s practice area.

Tom is regularly requested to speak on the topic of creditors' rights for various professional and civic organizations. His Collection Practice Practical Skills Manual, originally authored for the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education in 1991, revised and updated in 1998, is distributed to all newly admitted attorneys in the state. Mr. Clark has also written and lectured on the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act since it first became applicable to attorneys in 1986.

Tom is a member of the Commercial Law League of America, The National Association of Retail Collection Attorneys, the Camden County and Burlington County Bar Associations. He is a founding Director of 1st Colonial National Bank, headquartered in Collingswood, New Jersey, and its holding company, 1st Colonial Bancorp. He is a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association and is past chairman and a member of its Special Civil Part Committee, which concerns itself with the functioning of the primary collection court system in New Jersey. He was a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association's Task Force on the Special Civil Part, which prepared and provided a report and recommendation to the New Jersey Supreme Court that became part of a comprehensive revision of the rules governing the special Civil Part court system in 1988. He is presently serving as Treasurer and as a Trustee for the Liberty Bell Chapter of the West Virginia University Alumni Association.

Tom earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration and a Juris Doctor at West Virginia University. Upon graduation he became a law clerk for The Honorable Barry M. Weinberg, New Jersey Superior Court Judge, Law Division in Camden County.

Tom is married and the father of two children. His recreational time is spent skiing, swimming, riding his bicycle, and playing the guitar.

Recent Successes

• Tom assisted clients in a wide range of retail, office and industrial real estate acquisition, development, leasing and sale transactions in 2007, including transactions involving over three million square feet of useable space.

Bar Admissions

• State of New Jersey
• Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
• USDC for the District of New Jersey
• USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
• United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

Education

• Juris Doctor, West Virginia University
• Bachelor of Science, Business Administration (accounting), West Virginia University

Professional Associations and Activities

Current:

• Commercial Law League of America
• The National Association of Retail Collection Attorneys
• Camden County Bar Association
• Burlington County Bar Association
• New Jersey State Bar Association
• Special Civil Part Committee
• Liberty Bell Chapter of the West Virginia University Alumni Association - Treasurer and Trustee

Former:

• NJSBA Special Civil Part Committee – Chairman
• New Jersey State Bar Association's Task Force on the Special Civil Part
• Voorhees Township Economic Development Committee

tclark@curetonclark.com