Tom Hannigan is a Retired Partner of Ropes & Gray where he was a member of the litigation department. Before joining Ropes & Gray in 1981, Tom was a law clerk to the Hon. Andrew Caffrey in the United States District Court in Boston, and for the Hon. George Edwards in the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. While in practice, he represented clients in various state and federal courts, and handled cases focused on two particular areas: environmental litigation and the representation of religious organizations and other nonprofits. The latter area encompassed a wide range of matters, ranging from First Amendment litigation to the defense and settlement of personal injury claims.
As an Access to Justice Fellow, Tom will work with the Political Asylum/Immigration Representation Project (PAIR), the premier provider of pro bono immigration legal services to asylum-seekers and immigrants detained in Massachusetts. With PAIR, he will handle political asylum and detention matters. This is a natural outgrowth of his pro bono work at Ropes & Gray, where he had supervised associates in their representation of asylum applicants.