Tracy Toledo
Tracy (Theressa) was born and raised in Modesto, California. She was drawn to the legal field after working her first summer job in college at a local law firm. Although she had planned a career in medicine, her love of the law quickly took over and she obtained her Juris Doctorate in 1994.
Her heart-felt compassion to make a difference has led her to the area of family law and personal injury. She her practice challenging yet rewarding. She enjoys and values her clients and prides herself on her ability to help lead them through the often overwhelming and stressful process of divorce, separation, and child custody issues. She listens to her client concerns and takes the time to address those concerns. She believes no question is unimportant and every question deserves an answer. She is lucky enough to have a staff that she trusts and who hold the same values. As a mother of two with an active career, she understands the challenges of time management and the balance between raising a family and keeping your relationship with your spouse strong and working.
Her heart-felt compassion to make a difference has led her to the area of family law and personal injury. She her practice challenging yet rewarding. She enjoys and values her clients and prides herself on her ability to help lead them through the often overwhelming and stressful process of divorce, separation, and child custody issues. She listens to her client concerns and takes the time to address those concerns. She believes no question is unimportant and every question deserves an answer. She is lucky enough to have a staff that she trusts and who hold the same values. As a mother of two with an active career, she understands the challenges of time management and the balance between raising a family and keeping your relationship with your spouse strong and working.
She is an experienced trial attorney and has argued a number of cases before the United States District Courts, the United States Court of Appeals and the California Supreme Court. She is also admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court and the United States Tax Court. She limits her practice to family law and personal injury.
Education and Professional Background:
Bar Admissions: She is admitted to practice before all of the courts of the State of California, the United States Supreme Court, the United States Tax Court, the Central, Eastern and North District Courts of California and the United States Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit.
Education: She attended law school at Lincoln Law School and also studied in Spain at the Enforex Universidad.
In addition to be admitted to practice in various district courts, she has also argued numerous cases some of which have been published and recognized making new or clarifying old case law. These cases include the following:
- Setliff v. E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co.
https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/4th/32/1525.html
- People Department of Transportation v. Superior Court
http://www.lawlink.com/research/CaseLevel3/79830
- Delgado v. Trax Bar & Grill
- Moore v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=6226394895165009337&hl=en&as_sdt=6&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr
Professional Associations and Memberships
Bar Admissions: Tracy is admitted to practice before all the courts of the State of California, the United States Supreme Court, the United States Tax Court, the Central, Eastern and North District Courts of California and the United States Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit.
Education: She attended law school at Lincoln Law School and studied in Spain at the Enforex Universidad completing her juris doctorate.
Professional Background: Tracy has been admitted to practice in various district courts and has argued numerous cases that have been published, as seen below. An attorney’s job is to abide by the law to work in the best interest of whomever they are representing. However, sometimes people can abuse the law to attain these ends. In these instances, Tracy helped work to maintain the integrity of the law and to bring justice to those who were misjudged. Some of these cases are groundbreaking because they recognize the need to make new case laws or even simply clarify current laws.
This personal injury cases’ toxic allegations attempted to blame a company for his injuries. Plaintiff’s vague and insufficient claims were enough to cause the court to dismiss the case and rest with the defendants.
Often, there is a timeline to report personal injury cases. With a certain lawyer, that timeline may be malleable and adjust to the situation. However, even courts can abuse discretion in relieving deadlines. In this case, attorneys fought to show truly what proper diligence means.
In this particular instance, the court worked to fully establish a business proprietors’ obligation to ensure reasonable safety and prohibit criminal activity “that are likely to occur in the absence of such precautionary measures.
This case revised civil jury instructions to formally and more clearly ascertain when the owner of a business is liable for certain injuries occurring in their establishment.