Thomas Oh

Associate

Thomas Oh is an associate in the Municipal Law and Special Districts practice groups of Best Best & Krieger’s Los Angeles office.

Thomas received his law degree from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law. During law school, he was a full-time extern in the Civil Division of the United States Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles, a summer law clerk with the Orange County Public Defender and a comments editor for the Asian Pacific American Law Journal. As a member of UCLA’s Frank G. Wells Environmental Law Clinic, he assisted clients involved in National Environmental Policy Act litigation, traveled to Washington D.C. to speak at a briefing addressing plastic marine pollution, and visited several senators’ offices to discuss the details of proposed federal actions to reduce the improper disposal of plastic litter.

He received his undergraduate degree from Emory University, where he played for the golf team. After graduating from Emory, he taught English in Tajikistan for one year and served as an AmeriCorps VISTA (Volunteer In Service To America) at California State University, Fullerton, working as the service-learning coordinator of a literacy program for elderly immigrants. Prior to law school, Thomas also received his master’s degree, with highest honors, in philosophy of religion and ethics from Biola University.

Education

• University of California, Los Angeles, J.D.
• Biola University, M.A., philosophy of religion and ethics, highest honors
• Emory University, B.A.

Bar Admissions

• California

Thomas Oh

Associate

• "Federal Actions to Address Plastic Marine Pollution: Preventing Marine Plastic Pollution through Upstream Controls and Life-Cycle Management,” Preventing Marine Plastic Pollution: Legal & Policy Briefing and Workshop, sponsored by the UN Environment Programme, U.S. Senate Oceans Caucus, NRDC, and Surfrider Foundation, 2013