Tom Wiegand Email & Phone Number

• Via navigation of interviews, depositions, experts, and legal arguments, achieved superior settlements on behalf of residential mortgage-backed securities trusts against originators of subprime mortgages who breached.
• During the mediation of a corporate plaintiff client’s claim, proposed to the mediator an ultimatum process similar to the one that Harvard Negotiation Project Professor Roger Fisher used for the Camp David Accords.
• For a prominent individual client, developed the strategy for proving that a major global bank breached its fiduciary duty by trading the assets of one of the client’s trusts according to the Bank’s self-interest.
• Prevailed for the government of a South Asian country where a company in Asia was trying to take money that belonged to that country’s central bank and had subsequently passed through banks in the U.S.
• By working with the athletes and experts, engaging in negotiations, and presenting arguments to court, successfully represented retired professional athletes in challenging a class action settlement, resulting in.
• Successfully presented a Middle East country witness to defeat a federal lawsuit seeking to take possession of that country’s assets.

Chicago

• Succeeded in gaining dismissal of a consumer’s class action warranty claims against a major computer manufacturer by devising a deposition strategy that achieved key admissions from the named class representative.
• Gained a huge advantage through early discovery that occurred through strategizing and executing an attractive Queens Gambit when representing an individual as a plaintiff in a claim for breach of fiduciary duty.
• In defending a consumer lender in a class action, designed the strategy of deposing the three plaintiffs so that fact pattern differences were shown, which prevented the class action case from proceeding and caused.
• Created an “alternative billing” retention agreement before that term even existed that saved a Fortune 50 corporate client over $1M and resulted in a bonus to the Firm, as well as the Firm being retained to defend the.

Chicago

Cambridge, MA

• Consulted on conflicts, furthered negotiation theory, and taught negotiation to business professionals, attorneys, and politicians.
• Acted as a neutral negotiation consultant, traveling to South Africa as Roger Fisher’s assistant to separately meet with the full range of constituencies, including the African National Congress and government members.
• Taught negotiation skills to many groups, including numerous two-day sessions with senior executives at top consulting firms and a Fortune 50 corporation about their real world situations and how to generate successful.

Doctor Of Law (Jd)

Ba, Economics, Magna Cum Laude