Articles

Defensive Posturing: Defense Attorney Tom Nolan Has Attitude - And Heart - To Spare
"Scratch Tom Nolan - if you dare - and beneath the courtroom persona there's a complicated, gentle guy who weighs his words carefully, is sometimes awed by his students, and organizes his life around his outsized sense of injustice and the will to fight it."
Jenny Desai
San Jose Magazine

Tom Nolan: A Committed Courtroom Fighter
"Over the past three decades, Nolan has built an impressive practice representing defendants in crimes ranging from murder to trade-secret misappropriation."
Craig Anderson
San Francisco Daily Journal

Tom Nolan: Criminal Defense Lawyer of Choice
“Located in the Silicon Valley, Tom Nolan and his premiere criminal defense firm, Nolan and Armstrong, have substantially shaped the practice of high-tech criminal defense in California.”
Richard Alexander
Consumer Law Page

Classrooms Become Courtrooms: Lawyers Bring the Law to Life for Students
As founder of the Lawyers in the Classroom program, Dan Barton, along with Mike Armstrong and other local attorneys, attended a total of 14 10th-grade U.S. government classes at Gunn and Palo Alto High Schools, leading mock trials on issues ranging from religious freedom to search and seizure.
Dee-Ann Durbin
Palo Alto Weekly/Palo Alto Online

Letters to the Editor: No Devious Tricks Were Used
James Thompson, President of California Attorneys for Criminal Justice, writes a letter to the editor of the Palo Alto Weekly regarding Tom Nolan’s defense of Melvin Carter.
James S. Thompson
Palo Alto Weekly/Palo Alto Online

Paly Students Get Their Day In Court: Lawyers Give Their Time to Help Students Learn About the Law
As part of a Palo Alto Area Bar Association program, Kleigh Hathaway helps Palo Alto High School students conduct mock trials dealing with constitutional issues. “The program has proved so successful that it won the award for Innovative Education Programming from the American Bar Association.”
Charlie Breitrose
Palo Alto Weekly/Palo Alto Online

The Top 100: California Law Business
Tom Nolan is named one of Public Counsel’s Top 100 Lawyers. “Nolan takes the impossible cases and makes the best of them.”
Public Counsel

Seven Area Lawyers Make 'Top Powerbrokers' List
Tom Nolan is one of seven Silicon Valley area attorneys or law professors to make Public Counsel’s "Top 100 Lawyers List," a list of what Public Counsel believes are the 100 most influential attorneys in the state.
Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal