Tom recently joined Hulse & Germano with 33 years of experience in civil litigation, real estate, probate and business law. For the past decade, he was a senior trial attorney and then managing partner for the defense firm of Scattergood & Hendershot in Mt. Laurel, NJ. Prior to that, Tom was in private practice with Queenan & Scattergood in Burlington, NJ primarily representing plaintiffs. Tom has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in diverse and complex cases in the areas of personal injury, fire, construction, environmental, real estate and property damage matters earning him the designation of Certified Civil Trial Attorney by the NJ Supreme Court. In 2002, Tom took a leave from the practice of law to be an Assistant Professor of Torts and Personal Injury Litigation, Business Law and Real Estate Law at a local community college. Tom has also gained invaluable insight as a Municipal Court Judge conducting thousands of trials over a 20 year period of his career. With this experience, Tom has recently focused his practice in the area of ADR by serving as an Arbitrator, particularly as a "neutral" for UM/UIM and PIP cases, and Mediator and is listed on the AOC Roster of Qualified and Approved Mediators.

A graduate of Audubon High School, Tom earned a B.S. in Commerce from Rider University, an Ed.M. from Temple University School of Education and his J.D. from Temple University School of Law. He is a member of the Burlington County Bar Association, Cape May County Bar Association and the NJ Association of Professional Mediators (NJAPM). He serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Red Cross, Burlington County Chapter, as a volunteer/coach of the Philadelphia Rowing Program for the Disabled (PRPD), the Burlington County Military Affairs Committee (BC/MAC) and the Burlington City Chamber of Commerce.