Admission Details

  • 1990, Texas Supreme Court
  • 1990, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit;
  • 1991, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas;
  • 1999, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin;
  • 2000, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas;
  • 2003, U.S. Tax Court
  • 2023, United States Supreme Court

Education

  • University of Houston, B.A. (1982)
  • University of Houston, MA (1984)
  • University of Houston, J.D. (1989)

Birth Information

  • Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1960

Associations & Memberships

  • State Bar of Texas (Member, Sections on Business Law & Tax Law).
  • Member, College of the State Bar of Texas.
  • American Bar Association (Member, Business Law Section and Senior Lawyers Division).

Reported Cases

  • In re: Shell Oil Company, 932 F.2d 1518 (5th Cir. 1991), cert. denied sub. nom. Castillo v. Shell Oil Co., 502 U.S. 1049, 116 L. Ed. 2d 814, 112 S. Ct. 914 (1992). Upheld removal to federal court of toxic tort cases involving Costa Rican banana plantation workers who brought suit against DBCP pesticide manufacturers in state court.
  • Flo Trend Systems, Inc. v. Allwaste, Inc., 948 S.W.2d 4 (Tex. App.--Houston [14th Dist.] 1997, no writ). Successfully defended fraud allegations at trial court and upon appeal related to client’s financing of a new technology startup in the environmental services business.
  • Lassetter v. Strategic Materials, Inc., 192 F.Supp.2d 698 (N.D. Tex. 2002), aff'd, 72 Fed. Appx. 106, 2003 U.S. App. LEXIS 15232 (5th Cir. 2003). Successfully defended allegations of age discrimination at
    trial court and upon appeal.

Publications

  • True Value Billing: One Lawyer's Experience, Texas Bar Journal, 1998.

Additional Bio Details

Tom Erdos is a sole practitioner counseling business clients on all aspects of legal issues that arise from business operations. His client base ranges from companies whose business footprints extend across North America to many locally owned and operated businesses. 

For twenty-five years, Tom served as outside general counsel for North America’s largest glass recycling company.  In this role he handled legal matters on a nation-wide basis involving: contract drafting; industrial real estate purchases, sales, and leases; dispute resolution and litigation oversight; employment contracts and disciplinary actions; appearances before the EEOC and OSHA and state counterpart agencies; acquisitions and divestitures; regulatory compliance involving air permitting, storm water permitting, and solid waste handling; and insurance claims.

In addition, Tom has provided pro bono or reduced fee work to number of local charities to help them incorporate and obtain recognition as tax exempt organizations under Internal Revenue Code § 501(c)(3).

Tom obtained his law degree from the University of Houston in 1989 and was admitted to the State Bar of Texas in 1990. He previously obtained a Bachelor of Arts in English and a Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics from the University of Houston. Tom worked for seven years at the University of Houston, in the University Relations and Development offices and then in the English Department, where he taught the English language and Freshman English to international students. He also taught English to Cambodian and Vietnamese refugees at the Houston Community College and Freshman English at Houston Bible Institute (now the College of Biblical Studies).

Tom attended law school in the evenings for three and a half years while working full time at a law firm which combined intellectual property expertise and a corporate and securities practice with the purpose of assisting new technology start-up companies with the intellectual property and equity investment they need to succeed.  Upon his admission to the State Bar of Texas, he remained with the firm for three more years as an associate engaged in its corporate and securities practice. Then, on March 1, 1993,
he began his own law firm, which is now Erdos & Co., PLLC, in Sugar Land, Texas.