Thomas P. O'Toole joined the firm as a member in the summer of 2004.

Mr. O'Toole's practice focuses on counseling businesses, professionals and individuals involved in a wide range of real estate and business transactions as well as representing clients in disputes and litigation.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. O'Toole was in-house counsel for a nation wide title company and was an associate at the Walnut Creek law firms of Alborg, Veiluva & Cannata, and McNamara, Dodge, Beatty, Slatery & Pfalzer where he practiced business and real estate litigation and transactions on behalf of individuals and commercial entities.

Mr. O'Toole is a 1999 “with distinction” graduate of the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law, where he served at the Editor in Chief of the Transnational Lawyer, an international business law journal, and authored "The Long Arm of the Law" - European Merger Regulation and Its Application to the Merger of Boeing and McDonnell Douglas, 11 Transnat'l Law 203. At McGeorge, Mr. O'Toole obtained the American Jurisprudence Award for Corporate Taxation.

Mr. O'Toole received his Bachelor of Science degree in Finance in 1990 and his Masters of Business Administration in 1993 from California State University at Long Beach. After graduate school, Mr. O'Toole worked extensively in the real estate industry advising property owners regarding investment, development and management. He obtained his California real estate broker's licence in 2002.

Mr. O'Toole is a member of the Contra Costa County Bar Association real estate and business sections and the Contra Costa County Association of Realtors where he is the Legislative Committee Chair. As well, he is admitted to practice in the U.S. District Court, Northern, Central and Eastern Districts of California , and U.S. Court of Appeal, Ninth Circuit.

Mr. O'Toole was born in Long Beach. He currently resides in the East Bay with his wife, Julie Greenlaw-O'Toole, D.D.S. and two daughters.

Mr. O'Toole can be reached by e-mail at: totoole@ccolaw.com