Tom Boyd is the co-chair of the Regulatory and Government Affairs group, with former Governor Jim Blanchard (D-MI), and he concentrates his practice on public policy and regulatory matters. In particular, Mr. Boyd counsels and represents clients on privacy, financial services, electronic commerce, and other legislative and related regulatory issues. Among his clients are financial service companies such as banks, credit card issuers, insurance companies, online broker dealers, and other companies engaged in electronic commerce. He advises them on public policy matters before Congress and the Executive Branch, and he helps guide them through the increasingly complex regulatory obligations associated with privacy compliance.

Mr. Boyd served a three-year term from 2007 to 2010 as a member of the Department of Homeland Security Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee, appointed by and reporting to the Secretary of Homeland Security.

Before entering private practice, Mr. Boyd held several high-ranking government positions. In 1988, he was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to be an Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Office of Legislative Affairs at the Department of Justice and, in 1989, President George H. W. Bush named him to head the Department’s Office of Policy Development. After leaving government service, Mr. Boyd served as deputy general counsel and managed the DC office for Kemper Corporation.

Mr. Boyd also serves as counsel to the National Business Coalition on E-Commerce and Privacy, an organization of 18 name-brand companies and associations formed in 2000 to support the enactment of consistent state and federal laws that support the growth of electronic commerce in a way that achieves a reasonable and practical balance between the legitimate privacy interests of both business and consumers.

Among its members are Experian, Fidelity Investments, the Investment Company Institute, Charles Schwab & Co., Inc., Deere & Company, Inc., JP Morgan Chase, General Motors Corp., Vanguard Group, UPS, Fiserv, Eastman Kodak, Bank of America, and The Assurant.

Mr. Boyd is also a recognized speaker and writer. He has frequently written on both political commentary and creative topics for publications such as The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The Boston Globe, Southern Living, and Reader’s Digest, among others. His 1983 Washington and Lee University Law Review article, “The 1982 Amendments to the Voting Rights Act: A Legislative History,” co-authored with Stephen J. Markman (now Justice Markman of the Michigan Supreme Court) has been characterized by legal scholars as “the definitive work on the legislative history” of the 1982 Act. In 1985, he was awarded the Delta Society’s National Media Award for Excellence in Writing for an article published in The Wall Street Journal.

The respected English research firm Chambers & Partners cites his nationally recognized practice in both Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business and Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, and the latter publication has noted that he is a "national leader" in privacy and data security, adding that his move to DLA Piper "adds further clout to a deep bench of lawyers."  Praising Mr. Boyd, Legal 500 has commented that clients say he is "'always there when needed' and 'consistently gives a very, very high level of service'" and that they "commend him as ‘a substantive expert who offers practical solutions to complex legal problems.'"