Thomas M. Dunlap, Esq.

Education
B. A. Lafayette College
J. D. Washington and Lee University

Practice Areas
IP Litigation (Patent, Trademark and Copyright)
Commercial, Business & Real Estate Litigation
Tax Litigation

Admissions
Virginia, Maryland, District of Columbia
US Supreme Court
US Tax Court
4th Circuit Court of Appeals
Federal Circuit
US District Court Eastern & Western Districts of VA
US District Court District of MD
US District Court District of DC
Bankruptcy Court Eastern & Western Districts of VA

Organizations
American Bar Association, Intellectual Property & Litigation Sections
Washington DC Bar, Intellectual Property Section
Federal Bar Association
Virginia State Association - Intellectual Property Section
Loudoun County Bar Assoc, President 2005-2006
American MENSA
Airplane Owners and Pilots Assoc.
Rotary International
Shenandoah University - NOVA Advisory Board
Loudoun Advisory Board, Board Member
Loudoun Community Free Clinic, Board Member

Publications
Avoiding Small Business Litigation, Red Eagle Publishing 2004
Intellectual Property for Small Business, SBDC 2005
Best Practices & Winning Legal Strategies for New Technology & Privacy Issues, ReedLogic, 2006

Awards
Phi Delta Phi
NOVA Top 10 Lawyers- Business Litigation, Northern Virginia Magazine, June-July 2006
Madison's Who's Who

Published Cases
Wilson v. Generals Court , Sp. CEVA Record 032165 (Sup.Ct.Va. 2004)
TAMBURO, ET AL v. DWORKIN, ET AL (Feb 2005) (2005)
ADVANCE, ET AL v. SMASH, LLC (Dec 2004) (EDVA 2004)
WAKA, LLC v. DCKickball (May 2006) (Washington DC Fed District Court 2006)
Buffalo Wing Factory, Inc. v. Mohd (Jun 2006) (Fairfax County Circuit Court 2006)
Sherry Wilson and Co., Inc. v. Generals Court, L.C. (Sep 2002) (Loudoun County Circuit Court 2002)

Tom is the managing partner of the firm. His practice focuses on complex civil litigation (patent, copyright, trademark, corporate), and real estate litigation and disputes. Tom has represented local, national and international clients in a variety of complex litigation, including copyright disputes in the United Kingdom and multi-jurisdictional federal patent infringement and invalidity claims. Tom has also appeared before the Supreme Court of Virginia where he successfully argued the application of the intra-corporate immunity doctrine as it relates to conspiracy claims. In addition to numerous seminars, serving as President of the Loudoun Bar Association and writing technical treatises, Tom was selected as one of twelve “Top Northern Virginia Lawyers” in the June/ July edition of Northern Virginia Magazine.

Tom grew up in Middleburg and Great Falls, Virginia, although he attended high school at the International School of Geneva in Switzerland, where he learned to speak French fluently. He graduated from Lafayette College where he was a member of the varsity fencing team and rugby team. Following college Tom spent a few years in New York, New York working in both retail and commercial banking for Chase Manhattan and the Bank of New York.

He attended law school at Washington & Lee University where he was a member of Phi Delta Phi Legal Honors Fraternity (Vice Magistrar), and where he continued to play rugby. Tom then went to work for a Northern Virginia firm, where he eventually became a partner. In 2001 Dan Grubb and Tom formed Dunlap & Grubb.

Tom is a graduate of Army OCS, and has served as Recon Scout Platoon Leader, and XO for a cavalry troop and currently is assigned as the aide de camp to the Commanding General, 29th Infantry Division. Tom is an avid sailor and holds a private pilot rating (complex & high performance), rescue diver license, US Army Humvee and M1 Tank drivers licenses, and is a former National Silver Medalist in full contact Burmese kickboxing (2002). Tom enjoys spending time reading, and occasionally skydiving and white water rafting.