Paul Tozer

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Paul Tozer is a founding partner of Barth Tozer & Daly LLP.

As a Martindale Hubbell AV rated attorney, Mr. Tozer combines over 30 years of experience in successful litigation with  expertise in a wide variety of claims and lawsuits facing business and private individuals. Mr. Tozer  represents and advises clients  in the  ever-changing and always-increasing  potential and actual threats to their resources and their  rights. His practice includes a range of diverse areas, from trip and fall cases to complex constitutional law disputes. He has successfully defended several hundred employment-related cases for both large and small, private and public entities. From a family of former and current attorneys, he was raised to think critically, analyze the risk and reward factors involved in actual and potential lawsuits, and develop tactics to carry out long-term strategies for successful claim resolution.

As a trial advocate, Mr. Tozer has extensive experience in litigating all areas of civil liability actions, including:
  • Employment
  • Discrimination and civil rights
  • Wage and hour violation
  • Contracts
  • Construction
  • Fraud
  • Personal injury disputes
  • Other matters of dispute between private and public entities and private individual
A few examples of the variety of his practice include: • Davis v. State of California Department of Corrections (1996 WL 271001, E.D. Cal. 1996), in which he successfully defended the California Department of Corrections against a suit filed by seven female correctional officers alleging a class-wide pattern and practice of discrimination, sexual harassment and retaliation. The case, won on summary judgment, has been cited numerous times in subsequent cases, briefs and legal documents. The matter was brought to Mr. Tozer several months before the lawsuit was filed when word reached the department the case was going to be filed and plans were developed at an early stage allowing the defense to develop a roadmap and hit the ground running. • Successfully defending the California Department of Corrections and Youth and Adult Correctional Authority in qui tam litigation brought by under the California False Claims Act, alleging state funds were illegally spent on experimental nutritional therapy for juvenile inmates. The trial court decided in favor of the department and the decision was upheld on appeal. • In Trinkle v. California State Lottery (2003) 105 Cal.App.4th 1401, rev. denied May 21, 2003, he successfully defended the California State Lottery against a suit challenging the use of electronic vending machines to dispense SCRATCHERS® lottery tickets. The plaintiff claimed the vending machines were illegal slot machines. The court disagreed and the plaintiff appealed the case. The case was successfully defended on appeal.
Mr. Tozer’s professional activities and affiliations include: • Martindale-Hubbell AV Rated Attorney • Author, “Age Discrimination in California: Much Ado About Something,” Claims People, Vol. 8, No. 12 (Dec. 1998) • Author, “Preventing Abuse of Circumstantial Evidence in Employment Discrimination Cases,” DRI–The Job Description (Winter 1997) • Author, “A New Tort for Public Employees? Wrongful Termination in the Public Sector,” Public Law News, Vol. 12, No. 2 (Spring 1988)
Bachelor of Arts, University of Arizona, 1976 J.D. University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, 1979