Thomas Simeone
VerifiedAbout Thomas Simeone
Thomas J. Simeone is the Managing Partner and a Trial Attorney at Simeone & Miller, LLP in Washington, D.C. He has over 20 years of legal experience and was named one of Lawdragon's 500 Leading Plaintiff Lawyers in the country. Before founding Simeone & Miller, he was a partner at Cohen & Cohen and an associate at Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge (now Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman). Prior to law school he worked as a Certified Public Accountant at Price Waterhouse, where his clients included the World Bank, the National Gallery of Art, and USA Today. His practice covers class actions, car accidents, slip-and-falls, medical malpractice, product liability, workplace injuries, and civil rights. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor at The George Washington University Law School.
Notable case results
Peter TerVeer, a Library of Congress management analyst, was fired in 2012 after his supervisor learned he was gay through a Facebook page and subjected him to months of religious harassment; Thomas Simeone helped secure a Title VII sex-stereotyping ruling that survived a motion to dismiss, and the case ultimately settled for $235,000.
Thomas Simeone led a class action on behalf of deaf and hard-of-hearing Washington, D.C., moviegoers, obtaining a 2004 federal court settlement that required AMC Entertainment and Loews Cineplex to install rear-window captioning systems, giving the D.C. deaf community broader access to captioned first-run films than any comparable market in the country.
Settlement described as 'historic' by Harvard Law Review (Vol. 118 No. 5) and 'groundbreaking' by federal judge
Civil rights action against Library of Congress
Federal class action for disabled persons
Wrongful death case - two unarmed men shot by off-duty officer
Class action against PEPCO
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
