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Thomas G. Bost, J.D.
Associate Dean for Academics and Professor of Law

Office: School of Law (SOL)
E-mail: thomas.bost@pepperdine.edu

  • J.D., Vanderbilt University School of Law, 1967
  • B.S., Abilene Christian University, 1964, summa cum laude

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Order of the Coif and Founder's Medalist (First in Class) were just two of the honors Professor Bost received as a student at the Vanderbilt University Law School. He was the note editor for the Vanderbilt Law Review and upon graduation served for a year as an assistant professor of law at Vanderbilt.

Dean Bost became associated with the Los Angeles office of Latham and Watkins in 1968 and was a partner in the firm from 1975 through 1999. During his legal career he has been a frequent lecturer on legal topics for numerous groups including the American Bar Association Section of Taxation, the University of Southern California Tax Institute, the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, the New York University Institute on Federal Taxation, the Tennessee Tax Institute, the California Continuing Education of the Bar, the University of Texas Ethics Institute, the Christian Scholars' Conference and the Religiously-Affiliated Law Schools Conference. Professor Bost has served as a professor at Lipscomb University and as an adjunct professor at the School of Law and at Seaver College. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute, a member of the American Bar Association, the American College of Tax Counsel, the State Bar of California, and the Los Angeles County Bar Association.

Dean Bost has also served as a member and Chairman of the Board of Regents of Pepperdine University. He is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the Pacific Legal Foundation, having completed a two-year term as Chairman of the Board in 2002.

Dean Bost teaches Business Planning, Corporations, Taxation of Business Entities, Securities Regulation, and Ethical Corporate Practice.

Selected Works:
  • Corporate Lawyers After the Big Quake: The Conceptual Fault Line in the Professional Duty of Confidentiality, 1 J. BUS. ENTREPRENEURSHIP & L. 335 (2008 republication).
  • Corporate Lawyers After the Big Quake: The Conceptual Fault Line in the Professional Duty of Confidentiality, 19 GEO. J. LEGAL ETHICS 1089 (2006).
  • The Lawyer as Truth-Teller: Lessons from Enron, 32 PEPP. L. REV. 505 (2005).
  • Thomas G. Bost & L. Timothy Perrin, Practicing Law as a Christian: Restoration Movement Perspectives, 32 PEPP. L. REV. 419 (2005).
  • Reason, Freedom and Apocalyptic Vision: Churches of Christ and the Practice and Teaching of Law, in FAITH AND LAW: HOW RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS FROM CALVINISM TO ISLAM VIEW AMERICAN LAW (Robert F. Cochran, Jr. ed., NYU Press 2008).
  • THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002: A SUMMARY (National Legal Center for the Public Interest 2003).