Fleener Petersen, LLC
Wyoming Law Firm
Tom Fleener was born and raised in Ames, Iowa. He received his B.A., magna cum laude, in Economics and Accounting, from Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas in 1992, and his J.D., from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law in 1995. Upon graduation from law school, he was commissioned as an officer in the Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps. For the next eight years, he served primarily as a criminal defense attorney at Fort Hood, Texas; Baumholder, Germany; and Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. In 2003, Tom left active duty to take an appointment as an Assistant Federal Public Defender in Cheyenne, Wyoming. While working as an Asst. FPD he continued serving in the Army Reserves as a defense attorney.
In late 2005, Tom was recalled to active duty in the army specifically to represent alleged al Qaeda propagandist Ali Hamza al Bahlul of Yemen. Tom spent roughly two years in the Office of Military Commissions in Washington, D.C. During this time, he made several appearances before a military commission in Guantanamo Bay, until ultimately convincing Congress to afford detainees choice of counsel. Tom was profiled in the August 2007 edition of GQ magazine in a story titled, “The Defense Will Not Rest,” and has been an outspoken critic and public commentator on the use of special military trials for terrorist suspects. For the past several years, Tom has taught trial advocacy and legal ethics to lawyers across the country. He has also lectured at many of the nation’s top law schools, including Yale, Duke and UC Berkeley.
A veteran of nearly 100 felony jury trials, Tom has achieved dozens of acquittals for criminal defendants. He is a member of both the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the Wyoming Criminal Defense Lawyers Association. Tom is licensed in Iowa and Wyoming.
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