The law firm Gawthrop Greenwood PC has announced that community association law attorney Connor J. Thomson has joined the firm as an associate. The law firm supports homeowners associations (HOAs), planned communities, condominium associations and cooperatives across Pennsylvania in the residential and commercial arena.

Holding the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter designation earned by only 4% of insurance professionals and recognized as a "35 Under 35" Rising Insurance Star Executive, Thomson will provide general counsel services to community associations, as well as advice to adjusters while defending board members against directors' and officers' liability claims.

Thomson is admitted to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and is a member of the Community Associations Institute (CAI) Developing and Emerging Community Association Lawyers Network and the Chester County Bar Association. He earned his JD from Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law and MBA in the spring.

Previously, he studied risk management and insurance at Saint Joseph's University, where he was a Deans' Scholar, was inducted into the Beta Gamma Sigma International Business Honor Society and graduated summa cum laude with University Honors. During law school, Thomson clerked at Gawthrop Greenwood, as well as at a boutique insurance defense law firm, and externed for FEMA's Office of Chief Counsel, where he oversaw the defense of NFIP claims in federal courts during hurricanes Helene and Milton.

A winner of the Philadelphia Bar Association's 2025 Irvin Stander Award, Thomson serves as a board member of the Brandywine Valley CPCU Society Chapter. He recently completed service as Law Student Vice-Chair, American Bar Association - Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section: Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee and Law Student Vice-Chair and American Bar Association - Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section: Workers' Compensation and Employers' Liability Committee. His article "Hostile Environments in Today's Community Associations" was published in "Ask the Experts" by the Community Associations Institute (CAI) last spring.

Thomson will serve in Gawthrop Greenwood's West Chester and Berwyn offices. He currently resides with his family in Glen Mills.

A complete listing of the firm's practice areas and attorneys, as well as a variety of legal resources, can be found at http://www.gawthrop.com.