Law Offices of Norton Tooby - Oakland, CA

Leading Crimmigration and Post-Conviction Defense in Oakland, California

The intersection of criminal justice and federal immigration law represents one of the most intricate and unforgiving areas of American jurisprudence. At the Law Offices of Norton Tooby, noncitizens, permanent residents, and defense counsel across the country turn to unmatched authority. Led by attorney Norton Tooby, a graduate of Harvard College and Stanford Law School who served as President of the Stanford Law Review and has been licensed in California since 1971, the firm is widely recognized as a national pioneer in criminal immigration defense. When criminal charges or prior convictions threaten to trigger mandatory detention or deportation, clients choose to consult an immigration law firm in Oakland CA with deep trial and appellate experience.

Core Practice Areas and Legal Services

The firm concentrates exclusively on preventing and eliminating the adverse immigration consequences of criminal convictions, offering comprehensive legal strategies including:

• Post-conviction relief for immigrants: Reopening criminal proceedings and filing motions to vacate unlawful pleas, sentences, and convictions pursuant to California Penal Code provisions and federal constitutional standards.
• Deportation defense: Strategizing removal defense for individuals placed in immigration proceedings due to aggravated felonies, crimes of moral turpitude, controlled substance violations, or firearm charges.
• Immigration-safe plea negotiation: Advising criminal defense attorneys on structuring plea agreements that satisfy prosecutorial concerns without triggering mandatory deportation or bars to citizenship.
• Appellate and writ litigation: Pursuing state and federal appellate reviews, petitions for writs of habeas corpus, and coram nobis petitions to overturn unconstitutional convictions.
• Legal consultations and expert opinions: Providing formal case analyses, Padilla compliance evaluations, and expert declarations for noncitizens facing deportation.

Landmark Advocacy and Renowned Authorship

Norton Tooby played a pivotal role in the landmark United States Supreme Court decision in Padilla v. Kentucky, where Justice John Paul Stevens cited his treatises in establishing the constitutional requirement that defense counsel must advise noncitizen defendants of deportation risks. In 2011, the American Immigration Lawyers Association awarded Tooby the Jack Wasserman Memorial Award for Excellence in Litigation for his work on the Padilla litigation team. Having authored over thirty thousand pages of definitive practice manuals and treatises used by immigration judges, public defenders, and private practitioners nationwide, attorney Tooby brings unrivaled analytical precision to every case. If you need to hire a criminal defense lawyer with specialized knowledge of immigration consequences, the firm offers unmatched intellectual rigor.

Established Telegraph Avenue Office in Oakland

The practice is situated at 2831 Telegraph Avenue in Oakland, California, located in the vibrant Pill Hill neighborhood near Alta Bates Summit Medical Center and minutes from downtown Oakland courthouses. The office provides seamless transit access via the MacArthur and 19th Street BART stations and major Bay Area highways. When previous criminal entanglements place your legal residency, green card, or American future in jeopardy, find an immigration attorney in Oakland who literally wrote the books on crimmigration defense to protect your freedom.