Oliver Peter Thoma represents life sciences, energy, and healthcare companies in mass torts, climate change litigation, commercial litigation, and state attorneys general litigation. Oliver understands the importance of seeing litigation strategy through the lens of a company’s overall business strategy, which he has learned through his leadership roles within national counsel teams for complex mass tort litigation and state attorneys general litigation in federal and state courts.[[--readmore--]]

Oliver has experience litigating all phases of individual, multidistrict, and mass tort cases, as well as serving as coordinating and strategic counsel in connection with large dockets of cases at both the federal and state levels. He has experience in preparing and defending company executives on key safety, regulatory, and scientific issues for sworn testimony. He has experience in preparing and defending experts and developing scientific and medical defenses in products liability and environmental contamination cases, as well as successful expert challenges to exclude opposing experts. He has experience developing and negotiating cost-effective case resolution strategies for individual and mass tort cases, as well as litigation risk assessment.

In 2019, Oliver was selected as 1 of 100 attorneys nationwide to participate in the International Association of Defense Counsel’s 2019 Trial Academy at Stanford University.

While in law school, Oliver was the senior executive editor for the Baylor Law Review. He was on the National Security Law Moot Court Team and a member of the Baylor Barristers Society. While in college, Oliver interned at the U.K. Parliament and participated in the George H. W. Bush China-US relations conference. He was also a Presidential Fellow at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress from 2010 to 2011, and he continues to mentor current Presidential Fellows on their research papers.

Publications

Co-author with Matthew Blaschke and Rachel Rubens, "The Widening Circuit Split On State Court Climate Claims," Law360, July 11, 2022
Co-author with Michael Leslie, Granta Nakayama, and Tracie Renfroe, "EPA’s Draft Strategic Plan Emphasizes Resilience and Adaption to Climate Change," Texas Lawyer, January 13, 2022
"SCOTUS Declines to Resolve U.S. Climate Change Litigation, For Now," ABA Environmental & Energy Litigation Newsletter, December 3, 2021
"The Future of Climate Change Litigation in the Wake of the US Supreme Court’s Baltimore Ruling,"
Law 360, June 10, 2021
Co-author with Brandt Leibe and Grant Nichols, "Coming and Going: How Texas Companies Can Guard Against the Ongoing Risk of False Claims Act Enforcement Actions During COVID-19 Crisis," Texas Lawyer, July 6, 2020
Co-author with Carol Wood, Tracie Renfroe, Nate Bilhartz, and Ashley Parrish, "Do Climate Change Nuisance Suits Belong in Federal Court?" Law 360, June 16, 2020
"What's Wrong with America's Future? Perhaps It's Us." Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress Weekly News Roundup, Feb 14, 2020
Co-author with Lana K. Varney, "Protecting Protective Orders: Defending Your Client's Confidential Documents in the Big Data Age," DRI's In-House Defense Quarterly, Summer 2018
Co-author with Holly Kipp, "Deliver Us From Evil Error: Recent Victories and Successful Strategies for New Life in the Daubert World," presented at the IADC 2015 Mid-Year Meeting, Marco Island, Florida, February 14-18, 2015
"Do Medical Experts Need Peer-Reviewed Support?" Corporate Counsel, January 28, 2015
"Having Your Cake and Eating It Too: Post-Contract - Formation Fraud," 66 Baylor Law Review 760, Fall 2014
- Cited approvingly in Jani-King Franchising, Inc. v. Jani-King (GB) Ltd., 2016 WL 7680527, at *4 (N.D. Tex., 2016)
"Free Trade with China: For Better or Worse?" Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress, August 2011