Tom, the founder of the firm and former Attorney General of New Hampshire, has been actively involved in government relations since entering private practice in 1980.  Tom has represented insurance and banking clients before the respective New Hampshire regulatory commissions.  Among others, Tom has represented such clients as Fidelity Investments, Dartmouth College, Anthem and Gilbane on legislative, administrative and government relations issues in New Hampshire, New England and nationally.  Tom also directed the public and government relations efforts for our client, Northeast Utilities, in its successful acquisition of Public Service Company of New Hampshire.

He was appointed by President George H. W. Bush to be a director of the Legal Services Corporation.  Tom served as the Chairman of the election campaigns of New Hampshire's former U.S. Senator, Warren Rudman, and current senior U.S. Senator, Judd Gregg and he actively assisted in the U.S. Senate process that confirmed David Souter as Supreme Court Justice.  Tom has served as a senior national advisor to the presidential campaigns of Howard Baker, Robert Dole, Lamar Alexander, Mitt Romney and George W. Bush.  He has been a delegate to the 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, and 2008 Republican National Conventions and he was the Republican Party National Committeeman for New Hampshire from 1996-2000 and 2002-2007.  Tom is widely respected as a political analyst at both the state and national level and he appears regularly on national, regional and state television newsmaker programs.

Tom has served as chairman and a member of the Board of Trustees of Daniel Webster College, he was a member of the Board of Visitors of the Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences at Dartmouth College, a member of the Dartmouth Medical School Board of Overseers and a member of the Dartmouth College Committee on Trustees.  He has been a director of the Concord Chamber of Commerce and the N.H. Business and Industry Association.  Tom is currently a member of the Advisory Commission for the State's Archives and Political Library and he serves on the Board of Directors for Associated Grocers of New England, Lincoln Financial Investment Products Trust.  He also serves on the New England Council Board of Directors.

In 2004, Tom along with Judi Rhines founded The Rath Group, which provides specialized strategic consulting services to New England and national business and not-for-profit entities.  Tom and Judi work in Concord, Boston and Washington, D.C.