Law Center Attorneys

Thomas Brejcha

President and Chief Counsel

At the forefront of all the Law Center’s efforts is president and chief counsel Thomas Brejcha. Tom has been defending the defenders of life in court for 21 years.

Tom brings over 35 years of legal experience to his role as the leader of the Law Center’s team of attorneys. Read more about Tom here.

Peter Breen

Executive Director and Legal Counsel

Peter Breen brings broad experience in the private, political, and charitable sectors to the Thomas More Society. At the invitation of Tom Brejcha, Peter joined TMS in 2008 and now directs the day-to-day operations of the Society.

Peter focuses his law practice on protecting First Amendment rights to free speech.

After earning his bachelors in Electrical Engineering from Vanderbilt University in just three years, he attended the University of Notre Dame Law School on scholarship. Peter is licensed to practice in Illinois and before the United States Patent Office.

Paul Benjamin Linton

Special Counsel

Paul Linton, the Thomas More Society’s 2007 Chancellor’s Award recipient, is a constitutional scholar retained as special counsel for the Society for numerous important projects. Graduating in history (B.A., honors, 1974) and law (J.D.) from Loyola University, Chicago, Paul was a prosecutor and appellate law clerk before joining Americans United for Life, serving as its general counsel.

He has drafted numerous amicus curiae briefs for the Thomas More Society, including briefs on the partial-birth abortion appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court, protecting the Texas fetal homicide law, and defending traditional marriage in several states on behalf of the national office of the Knights of Columbus.

Among other projects, Paul recently completed a comprehensive analysis of each state constitution as relating to abortion and state law interpreting these provisions, in preparation for the state legal battles which will ensue once Roe is overturned.

Paul has published a host of law review articles regarding abortion and is sought-after as a trusted and exceptionally learned counselor by legislators, attorneys general and litigants with constitutional or abortion-related issues at stake.

Alan E. Untereiner

Special Counsel

Retained as special counsel for the Thomas More Society, Alan is a partner in the Washington, D.C. law firm, Robbins, Russell, Englert, Orseck and Untereiner. Alan received his A.B. degree in Social Studies, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Harvard College in 1984, and his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was Notes Editor of the Yale Law Journal.

Alan’s insight inspired the Supreme Court to grant our petitions for discretionary review in the second and third NOW v. Scheidler appeals. He led the crafting of two Supreme Court briefs and argued Scheidler III before the Court. He is undefeated (3–0) as a Supreme Court advocate. He has authored scores of petitions and briefs in the high Court for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other prestigious business clients.

Roy T. Englert, Jr.

Special Counsel

Also retained as special counsel for the Thomas More Society, Roy too is a partner in Robbins, Russell. He received an A.B. in mathematics from Princeton in 3 years, and a J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School (1981), serving as Executive Editor of the Harvard Law Review.

Roy worked in the Office of the U.S. Solicitor General from 1986–89. He has argued 15 cases in the Supreme Court and won all but two (one loss, one split decision). He argued and won Scheidler II by an 8–1 margin (Feb 2003).

Jason R. Craddock

Special Counsel

After earning a history degree at the University of Virginia and his law degree at the University of Iowa, Jason R. Craddock has been practicing law for ten years, most of which have been devoted to litigating pro-life, pro-Christian and pro-family values cases. In 2001, he began representing pro-life activists in numerous Constitutional and tort cases, at both the trial and appellate levels.

Since 2006, Jason has served as co-counsel on many cases for the Thomas More Society, ranging from cases involving the abortion facility in Granite City, Illinois, to the current battle against the new Planned Parenthood “Mega Mill” in Aurora.

Jason has served on the boards of several pro-life organizations, including Springfield Right to Life and a Virginia shelter for women and girls experiencing crisis pregnancies. He currently sits on the board of directors for PASS pregnancy centers in Chicago’s south suburbs. Jason has a solo law practice in Chicago’s south suburbs, where he resides with his wife Joy, and their four children.