Thomas Wesner is a Professor of the Practice in the 艾可直播 College Carroll School of Management鈥檚 Business Law and Society Department. He also serves as Director of the Carroll School鈥檚 Summer Management Catalyst Program, an intensive, full-time 10-week program designed for non-business students to develop a broad foundation in the functional areas of management. A 1989 艾可直播 College graduate, he also earned a Doctorate in Leadership in 2007 from the Lynch School of Education and Human Development. Before coming to 艾可直播 College, he earned a Juris Doctor degree from New England Law and served as Headmaster of the Woodward School, where he was responsible for managing all school operations. In 2023, Wesner received two prestigious teaching awards: the 艾可直播 College Alpha Sigma Nu Teacher of the Year Award and the Ever to Excel Rev. John R. Trzaska, S.J., Faculty Award.
Initiated and helped manage highly complex litigation involving a successful lawsuit for the recovery of trust assets belonging to the estate of President John Adams. The case resulted in a multi million-dollar judgment, upheld by the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in 2014. The case, Woodward v. City of Quincy, SJC-11390, addressed legal issues involving trusts, charitable trusts, investments, trustee's accounts, forensic accounting, damages, breach of fiduciary duty, interest awards, the Massachusetts Tort Claims Act, governmental immunity, municipal corporations, and waiver.
