Tom is the Managing Director of Stacks/Goudkamp, a Sydney based law firm specialising in compensation matters. A New South Wales Law Society Accredited Specialist in Personal Injury, Tom is the Chairperson of the NSW Law Society’s Personal Injury Advisory Committee, an assessor for CARS (Claims Assessment Resolution Service), and was a member of the NSW Law Society’s Specialist Accreditation Board for 14 years. Tom was the President of the Australian Lawyers Alliance in 2004/2005 and is a current member. In addition to this, he has memberships to the American Trial Lawyer’s Association (ATLA), and the Motor Accident Authority’s panel of legal practitioners.
Tom is also co-author of the highly regarded Goudkamp/Morrison Personal Injury Law Manual NSW.
After beginning his law career as a Paralegal in London, Tom worked at a number of Sydney law firms before joining Stacks in 1993 to head the Sydney office, becoming Managing Director of Stacks/Goudkamp in 2003. He was awarded an Order of Australia medal (OAM) in 2005 for services to injured people and the legal profession. With 36 years in practice, Tom is a knowledgeable and respected member of the Stacks team.
Tom is an experienced and compassionate solicitor who is dedicated to ensuring that his clients receive a just result, and his ability to communicate with clarity and honesty is greatly valued by his clients. He prides himself on the firm’s culture of clients before money, and his integrity and genuine compassion for injured clients is evident in every matter he conducts. Tom has been involved in literally hundreds of compensation cases, including Rogers v Whitaker, a landmark medical negligence claim which set a precedent for the duty of doctors towards their patients for foreseeable risk.
Tom has traveled the world to meet with injured clients, including the United States, England, the West Indies and a large part of Europe. He recently traveled to Samoa to investigate an accident involving an Australian woman who was injured when a wooden utility pole fell on her car in Apia, killing her husband and rendering her a quadriplegic. He is now bringing an action against Samoa’s electricity power corporation, having located witnesses and investigated the accident location. He also successfully sued a plane manufacturer in Mobile, Alabama, acting for a client who suffered spinal injuries in a light plane crash in Sydney.
