Mr. Thomas S. Williamson Jr.

Thomas S. Williamson Jr.
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Thomas S. Williamson Jr.

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Thomas S. Williamson Jr.

Thomas S. Williamson Jr. is a partner whose litigation practice includes employment law, complex litigation, and health and welfare law matters for state governments.He received a B.A. in 1968 from Harvard College, attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar in 1968-69, and earned a J.D. in 1974 from Boalt Hall, University of California at Berkeley.

From 1993 through 1996, he served as Solicitor of Labor for the U.S. Department of Labor.From 1978 to 1981, he was Deputy Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Energy.He is currently the Chair of the Texaco Task Force on Equality and Fairness; and he is a member of Harvard University's Board of Overseers, the Board of Directors of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and the Board of Directors of the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, and the American Law Institute.

He is co-author, with his partners Anthony Herman and Michael S. Horne, of "The Contingent Workforce, Business and Legal Strategies" (Law Journal Press 2000).

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Tom Williamson of Covington & Burling serves as chair of the Texaco Task Force on Equality and Fairness, a court-appointed oversight body that was established in the wake of the controversy that erupted at Texaco after public disclosure of secretly recorded tapes in the midst of a race-discrimination lawsuit.
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Thomas S. Williamson Jr.
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Thomas S. Williamson Jr.

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Thomas S. Williamson Jr. is a partner at the law firm of Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C.; His litigation practice includes employment law, complex litigation, and health and welfare law matters for state governments.He received a B.A. degree, magna cum laude, in 1968 from Harvard College; attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar in 1968-69; and earned a J.D. in 1974 from Boalt Hall, University of California at Berkeley.While at Harvard he was also selected as an All-Ivy and All-East defensive back.

From 1993 through 1996, he served as Solicitor of Labor for the U.S. Department of Labor.From 1978 to 1981, he was Deputy Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Energy.From 1998 to 2002 he served as the Chair of the Texaco Task Force on Equality and Fairness.He recently completed his term as the president of Harvard University's Board of Overseers; and he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.He is co-author, with his partners Anthony Herman and Michael S. Horne, of "The Contingent Workforce, Business and Legal Strategies" (Law Journal Press 2000).

Since October 2002 he has been retained by the NFL as special advisor to the owners' Workplace Diversity Committee and the general managers' Working Group established to facilitate increased diversity in the head coaching and front office ranks of NFL clubs.

Thomas Williamson Jr., the Labor Department's solicitor under President Bill Clinton, called the solicitor's office a "choke point control" - a mechanism to, among other things, protect the labor secretary's political flanks.
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And in Mr. Williamson's view, referring cases carries risks OSHA can ill afford."You lose control of it," he explained.