TOM BLEAKLEY

Tom Bleakley is a trial lawyer specializing in various pro bono causes involving constitutional issues. His past experiences include the prosecution of major pharmaceutical cases again Big Pharma, and these experiences form the bases for his writings. Earlier he spent seven years in the pharmaceutical industry and co-authored a two-volume textbook,"A Teaching Program in Psychiatry" for medical school students as a beginning course in diagnostic psychiatry. Tom's novel, Safe Nowhere, was released in early 2016 and depicts the dangers of dangerous foreign generic drugs sold to unsuspecting users in the U.S. His novel, 'Rx for Mass Murder', is a fictionalized account of the impact of DES on young men when their mothers were administered the drug during pregnancy and is currently  being revised to reflect recent scientific developments. His work 'If I Should Kill', describes the tragic impact of a drug company's fraudulent scientific work leading to the marketing of a benzodiazepine-type drug that causes users to kill themselves or others. Tom latest novel, " Exoneration' is a fictionalized version of a highly publicized murder trial where a disreputable scientist claimed to be able to  identify the presence of  a drug in post mortem body tissue when no other scientist in the world could do so. 'Exoneration' will be published in the late fall of 2019. Tom has shared his writing time the past four years with his 'pro bono ' representation of Detroit public schoolchildren in multiple actions brought against the state of Michigan that has systematically deprived adequate funding in a blatant attempt  to create a market for profit-seeking charter schools.