Jane Thomas

Biography

Jane Thomas concentrates her practice on mass tort, environmental, and insurance recovery matters.

During law school, Jane served as a paralegal for the Department of Justice’s Environmental Tort Litigation Civil Division, sanctions consultant for a Washington, D.C.-based law firm, and law clerk for Break the Cycle. She also held numerous legal internships for the Department of Health and Human Services. In addition, Jane was a senior staff member of the Federal Circuit Bar Journal and involved in the Domestic Violence Project Clinic. She was also a member of the Student Bar Association and South Asian Law Students Association.

Jane is fluent in Malayalam.

Experience

Represented a market-leading generic pharmaceutical company in the Zantac multidistrict litigation (“MDL”), the largest and most complex product liability MDL to date.

Recognitions

  • 2022, Greater Washington, D.C., Pro Bono of the Year, by the Tahirih Justice Center
  • 2019–2020, listed in Capital Pro Bono Honor Roll

Credentials

Admissions

  • District of Columbia
  • New York

Education

  • George Washington University Law School, JD, with honors
  • Georgetown University, BS, magna cum laude
Languages
  • Malayalam