Casey Z Thomas

Biography

Casey ("Case") is absolutely stoked to his core to help grow and build teams across the globe. He cares deeply about people and is passionate about making teams tick. He cherishes every opportunity to empower leaders (and teammates) so they can lead through complexity, inspire, and find success (and happiness) in this complex world in which we live.

He and his Learning, Development, & Performance crew help energize, stretch, develop, evolve, and align a 30,000+ strong team of industry-leading heavy-lifters around the world in a publicly-traded manufacturing and technology company.

Additionally, over the years, he cherished the opportunity to work with and learn from so many extraordinary people and teammates . . . and he is absolutely honored to have trained and mentored countless legal professionals. A true joy. #grateful.

Case even jumped from airplanes as a U.S. Army Airborne Ranger, and is humbled in ways hard to describe to be a Veteran (Army, Retired).

He served as a Federal prosecutor, representing the United States in many trials, including jury trials. As Senior Trial Counsel, he and the (amazing) 7 heavy-lifting litigators and 31 paralegals contended with hundreds upon hundreds of cases and countless complex matters of all sorts.

For years Case also advised senior decision-makers on the practical and legal aspects of sensitive daily decisions, and also matters of strategic importance, including in the most complicated of circumstances.

To have served in combat with Special Operations warriors remains a high honor of his professional life. His team of brilliant Army, Navy, Marine, & Air Force legal professionals handled countless intricate and high-pressure combat, detention, stability, cyber, inter-agency, and Iraqi prosecution operations (and other highly-delicate matters), for U.S. and Iraqi Special Operations Forces across the entire combat theater. He was awarded the Bronze Star.

As a Law Professor, he taught and challenged hundreds of Master of Laws students, new attorneys, and senior leaders. Later, as Associate Dean, he managed the daily academic operations of the law school with 5 Academic Departments educating 10,000 attorney, paralegal, senior executive, legal administrator, and international students each year.

Case was also just so very lucky to help build and lead a hugely productive large legal service organization that earned global awards for performance and customer service. The superb team masterfully worked 15,000+ various legal matters—administrative & civil, operational & international, criminal, fiscal & contract, claims, legal assistance, and more—for a client base of 150,000 in an organization with an annual operating budget of $700+ million.

Case was the #2 leadership graduate in his class at West Point and had the distinct honor of serving as President of his class for 13 years. He also graduated from the University of Texas School of Law and holds his LL.M. from The Judge Advocate General’s School in Charlottesville, Virginia.

He is barred in Texas and is admitted to the Supreme Court of the United States, Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, U.S. Court of Federal Claims, and U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas.