Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Thomas Yannucci is a litigation partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Chair Emeritus of Kirkland's Firmwide Management Committee.  He has been a member of that Committee since 1995 and served the maximum of three terms as Chair, beginning in 2001, when the position was created.  He also is an adjunct professor for trial advocacy at Georgetown University Law Center.

He has acted as trial and appellate counsel in both individual and class action suits involving claims in the following areas: defamation, intellectual property, securities, antitrust, government enforcement and regulatory matters (DOJ, FDA, EPA, FTC, SEC, ITC, FEC, CIA, NLRB), RICO, insurance coverage, ERISA, international trade and white collar crime. He has handled both jury and bench trials, and has appeared in state and federal courts as well as in arbitrations. He also has served as an arbitrator for complex commercial cases for the American Arbitration Association.

University of Notre Dame, AB, 1972. University of Notre Dame Law School, JD, 1976; Editor-in-Chief, Notre Dame Law Review; Law Clerk to Honorable John Danaher, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 1976-77; Dept. of Justice, 1977-80.