Brian W. Thomas ’18 is a Law & Public Policy Scholar at Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law. He works at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in the Division of Trading and Markets as a Student Honors Program intern. A native of Ardmore, Pennsylvania, Brian earned his B.S. from Boston College, where he majored in both marketing and English. Prior to law school, Brian spent four years in Investor Services at Brown Brothers Harriman. He worked last summer as a legal intern in Deutsche Bank’s legal department. As an assistant to Professor Jonathan Lipson, Brian researched non-plan settlements in chapter 11 bankruptcy. Brian plans to spend this summer exploring his interest in securities market regulation.