Tracy N. Tool

Attorney / Partner

Email

ttool@byegoff.com

Team Members

Kerry Swick, Paralegal

Kerry@byegoff.com

Shalane Pechacek, Legal Assistant

Shalane@byegoff.com

Tracy N. Tool

Attorney / Partner

“Jury trials are the great equalizer.”

Tracy Tool is a board-certified civil trial specialist practicing in a wide range of substantive areas of law. He uses the legal process to force big corporations and insurance companies to treat individuals, including injured clients, fairly.

Tracy handles cases in state and federal courts of both Wisconsin and Minnesota. He devotes his practice to real people who have suffered from nursing home neglect, wrongful death, trucking accidents, motor vehicle accidents, motorcycle accidents, and dangerous products. Tracy uses his extensive experience in employment law and civil rights law to represent victims of workplace harassment and discrimination. Tracy’s proven ability to win jury trials puts pressure on the insurance companies to settle before trial.

Tracy Tool received his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Minnesota. He has practiced law since 1990, exclusively as a civil litigator and trial lawyer.

A strong believer in the critical value of education, Tracy serves as an adjunct law professor at the University of Minnesota Law School. He regularly lectures other lawyers at continuing education seminars in the field of trial practice and personal injury law. For years, Tracy has helped coach the successful local high school mock trial team. Tracy loves to participate in sports and support the Minnesota Twins and the Minnesota Golden Gophers. He is also a guest contributor to “The Law Corner” segment of the Minnesota Twins podcast, Gleeman & the Geek.

If you live in Wisconsin or Minnesota and have been injured due to someone else’s negligence, contact us for a free legal consultation today.

Bar admissions

Education

J.D.; University of Minnesota
B.A.; University of Minnesota

Honors

Memberships

Reported cases

Junk v. Terminix Int’l Co.¸ 628 F.3d 439 (8th Cir.), cert. denied, 565 U.S. 816 (2011)
Noffke v. Bakke, 2009 WI 10, 315 Wis. 2d 350, 760 N.W.2d 156
Butler v. Advanced Drainage Sys., Inc., 2006 WI 102, 294 Wis. 2d 397, 717 N.W.2d 760
Brooten v. Hickok Rehab. Servs., LLC, 2013 WI App 71, 348 Wis. 2d 251, 831 N.W.2d 445
Forsythe v. Indian River Transport Co., 2012 WI App 118, 344 Wis. 2d 520, 822 N.W.2d 737
Tesar v. Anderson, 2010 WI App 116, 329 Wis. 2d 240, 789 N.W.2d 351
Morrison v. Rankin, 2007 WI App 186, 305 Wis. 2d 240, 738 N.W.2d 588
Abbott v. Marker, 2006 WI App 174, 295 Wis. 2d 636, 722 N.W.2d 162
Palmerton v. Associates Health and Welfare Plan, 2003 WI App 41, 260 Wis. 2d 179, 659 N.W.2d 183
Hoffman v. Rankin, 2002 WI App 189, 256 Wis. 2d 678, 649 N.W.2d 350
Peppi v. Phyllis Wheatley Community Center, 614 N.W.2d 750 (Minn. Ct. App. 2000)
Junk v. Obrecht, 839 N.W.2d 675 (Iowa Ct. App. 2013)