Thomas Plofchan

About Thomas Plofchan

Thomas K. Plofchan, Jr. is the President of TJ Westlake, a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Company, and a principal of Westlake Legal Group, located in Sterling, Virginia. He is admitted to the Virginia State Bar, and is authorized to practice before all courts and administrative agencies of the Commonwealth of Virginia, the U.S. Eastern and Western District Courts of Virginia, the Federal Fourth Circuit Court, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, and the U.S. Supreme Court. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Loudoun County Bar Association. Previously, Mr. Plofchan has worked as a Special Programs Assistant in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor at the U.S. Department of State in both the Bush I and Clinton Administrations, where he was instrumental in developing courses on civil/military relations and in teaching the concepts of humanitarian principles to military organizations in the U.S. and foreign countries. He has also held positions at the Center for National Security Law, SAIC, and had his own consulting practice. He is a former Ford Fellow at the University of Virginia School of Law and is widely published. In 1991, he was awarded the Bruno Bitker Prize for the best international law article of the year by the American Bar Association\'s Committee on World Order Under Law. Mr. Plofchan has been married for more than 25 years and has three children. His family is actively involved in their Church, the Knights of Columbus, and seasonal sports activities offered within the Northern Virginia area. He also has served as a voluntary offshore sailing coach at the U.S. Naval Academy. Specialties: Information Techonology, Litigation, criminal defense, real estate, corporate matters

Experience

1. President

   Tj Westlake, Llc

   Jan 2007 — Present

   A Service Disabled Veteran Owned Company

Education

• University of Virginia School of Law

  JD, Law

  1989 — 1992

• United States Naval Academy

  BS, English and Naval Engineering

  1981 — 1985

• Georgetown University

  MA, Government and National Security Studies

  1985 — 1986