Thomas E. Holliday is a partner in the Litigation Department in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Los Angeles office. He is also co-Chair of the firm's White Collar Defense and Investigations Practice Group. From 1995 to 1999, he was the co-Partner-in-Charge of the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He received his undergraduate degree from Stanford University, where he was elected Phi Beta Kappa, and his law degree from the University of Southern California, where he served as an Executive Editor of the Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif.
Mr. Holliday focuses on white collar criminal defense work and commercial fraud litigation. He has defended individual and corporate entities in a wide range of business fraud prosecutions. His cases have included the representation of business executives, engineers, financial officers, stockbrokers, and corporate entities against charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States, fraud on federally insured institutions, false statements, bribery, money laundering, RICO and tax fraud.
Mr. Holliday is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and served as Deputy General Counsel for the Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department (the "Christopher Commission"). He also served on the LAPD Police Commission Rampart Review Panel. In 1997, he received the Criminal Defense Lawyer of the Year Award from the Century City Bar Association.
Mr. Holliday was a Co-Editor for the Matthew Bender Antitrust Laws and Trade Regulations, Desk Edition. He is also the co-author of The Effect of Sentencing Guidelines on Organizational Defendants, "Closing Arguments," Chapter 37, Business and Commercial Litigation Treatise, West Publishing, and "Disclosure of Results of Internal Investigations to the Government or Other Third Parties," Chapter 8, Internal Corporate Investigations, American Bar Association.
Mr. Holliday is past President of the Southwest Museum and the Federal Bar Association. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Police Memorial Foundation, the Board of Directors of the Police Assessment Resource Center, and the Board of Trustees of Clarkson University.