Thomas G. Oakes II
The clearest example of search-engine copy on this site. Mid-sentence, his firm's page reaches for phrases like uber accident attorney in Delco and rideshare lawyer in South Philadelphia — sometimes leaving the sentence ungrammatical. His bar record carries a New Jersey area code.
The bar record
We read Thomas G. Oakes II in the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania’s attorney search. Every row below is the Board’s — this register carries no self-reported practice block at all.
Eleven registers, and this is the first that does not ask the question. Texas prints “No Public Disciplinary History”. Florida gives ten years. Washington shows a blank and warns its search may miss things. New York answers and then sends you to the Appellate Division. California prints a docket and links the court file. Massachusetts says “None” or “Yes” and links the decision. Pennsylvania’s attorney detail has no disciplinary field on it at all. So this listing carries a dash — the third distinct reason for a dash on this site, and the only one that is about the shape of the form rather than the content of the answer. The Board publishes discipline elsewhere; we have not searched those resources, and until we do, no green tick belongs here.
What it does publish is unique in the other direction. Where Washington and Massachusetts record professional liability insurance as a yes-or-no, Pennsylvania prints a sentence in the lawyer’s own voice, with a figure and a rule citation: “I maintain… at least $100,000 per occurrence and $300,000 in the aggregate… as set forth in Rule of Professional Conduct 1.4(c).” It is still a self-report. But of eleven registers, this is the only one that quotes the lawyer speaking rather than summarising them into a checkbox. It also gives a county and a disciplinary district, administrative geography no other register on this site publishes.
What the record shows
The page contains sentences built around search phrases rather than meaning: If you are involved in a Philadelphia rideshare accident or need a uber accident attorney in Chester County suburbs, taking the right steps can protect your health, and If a driver is physically attacked or injured, an uber accident attorney in Delco can show you that you may be entitled to a list of benefits. The second is not a sentence a person would write.Verified
It also refers the reader to a Philadelphia motorcycle accident lawyer, a Philadelphia pedestrian accident attorney and a rideshare lawyer in South Philadelphia — four different specialisms inside one rideshare page, each phrased as a search someone might type. None of it makes the legal content wrong, and the coverage tiers on the page are given correctly and twice. It tells you who the page was written for.Verified
It does contradict itself once: describing pedestrians, it says that if the driver was logged into the app Uber/Lyft provides up to $100,000 in coverage, where the same page elsewhere gives the $50,000 per person and $100,000 per accident split properly.Verified
His bar record gives a telephone number in the 856 area code — southern New Jersey — against a Penn Center House address in Philadelphia. His site gives (267) 715-3409. His biography says he practises in both states.Verified
What the firm says
He says he is a seventh-generation Philadelphian, graduated with honours from Drexel and took his J.D. at Villanova as a Dean’s Merit Scholar, later adding an MBA.Reported
He says he taught courtroom technology for a decade on Temple’s LL.M. in Trial Advocacy faculty, and has been admitted pro hac vice in seven states.Reported
He says he was selected by Super Lawyers as a Rising Star from 2018 to 2023 and recognised as a Top 40 Under 40 nationally in 2023.Reported
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What we haven’t checked
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