He served as first lieutenant in the Judge Advocate General's Corps of the United States Air Force during the Korean War.

Over the years, the Tom Riley Law Firm has represented thousands of clients and obtained more than $300,000,000 in recoveries on their behalf.

[7] Tom Riley and Todd Becker pioneered nationwide litigation against tampon manufacturers whose products caused injury or death by toxic shock syndrome in women.

1983), became the subject of Tom Riley’s book, The Price of a Life: One Woman’s Death From Toxic Shock (Adler & Adler 1986), and a chapter in the book, Soap Opera: The Inside Story of Procter & Gamble (Random House 1993), by Wall Street Journal reporter Alecia Swasy (Random House 1993).

The DeBurkart case relieved victims of medical negligence of having to meet this frequently unrealistic and unfair burden.

He wrote four books: Response to Crisis (1968), Proving Punitive Damages (1981), The Price of a Life (1986) and Iowa’s Civil Litigation Handbook (1997).

Tom and his wife, Nan, donated an extensive collection of Roman portrait busts to the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art.