Thomas A. McWatters, III
Associate
Email: tmcwatters@bksr.org

Practice Areas: Litigation; Municipal Law; Personal Injury; Probate; Real Estate.

Admitted: 1986, Ohio; 1989, California

Law School: University of Toledo College of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, 1986

College: Taylor University, B.S., cum laude, 1982; Biola University, M.A., Philosophy of Religion/Ethics, 1998; Duke University, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Philosophy

Member: Fulton County and Ohio State Bar Associations; State Bar of California.

Biography: Order of the Coif; Order of the Barristers. Member: National Moot Court Team; Moot Court Advisory Board. Student Articles Editor, University of Toledo Law Review. Outstanding Oral Advocate, Twelfth Annual Fornhoff Competition. Recipient, American Jurisprudence Book Awards, Con. Law I, Evidence I and Corporate Tax. Judicial Law Clerk: Honorable Charles Wiggins, United States Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 1988-1989; Honorable James Harvey, United States Senior District Judge, Eastern District of Michigan, 1986-1988. Author: Comment, "An Attempt to Regulate Pornography Through Civil Rights Legislation, Is It Constitutional?," 16 U. Tol. L. Rev., 231 (1984). Assistant Law Director, Wauseon, Ohio, 2007-. Assistant Village Solicitor, Village of McClure, 2007-. Legal Counsel, Office of the Special Advisor to the Board of Commissioners, Los Angeles, California, 1992. Formerly with Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood.

Born: Bethpage, New York, January 26, 1959

ISLN: 904895160