BOB TOMASO is the St. Louis Office Managing Partner at Husch Blackwell, a 700 lawyer firm with offices throughout the Mid-West, Mid-South and Rocky Mountains. Bob, who focuses his practice exclusively on the representation of employers, received his B.A., summa cum laude, in 1985 from Washington & Lee University. He received his J.D. in 1989 from the University of Virginia School of Law.

He has first-chaired numerous employment discrimination jury trials in federal and state court, and successfully argued appeals in ten different jurisdictions.

In 2002 he was named to the St. Louis Business Journal’s List of 40 Under 40 and he serves as Vice-Chair of the Employment Law Section of the American Health Lawyers Association. For more than 10 consecutive years, Bob has been named as one of the “Best Lawyers” in America. Bob is a past member of the Alumni Board of Directors, Washington and Lee University; St. Luke’s Hospital; and the Police Athletic League. He has also served as President of the Board of Directors of the St. Louis Chapter of The First Tee, an organization that teaches life skills to underprivileged kids through the game of golf.