Norton Tooby is a criminal defense attorney practicing in Oakland, California.

After graduating from Harvard University in 1967, he attended Stanford Law School where he served as President of the Stanford Law Review in .

His career has been devoted almost entirely to criminal defense work, culminating in the successful appeal of a death penalty case before the California Supreme Court under Chief Justice Malcolm Lucas in 1988 in which all convictions were reversed and his client was set at liberty. Since that time, he has increasingly specialized in criminal representation of immigants.

He was recently awarded the Philip Burton Immigration & Civil Rights Award for Immigration Lawyering for his pioneering work in the field of post-conviction relief for immigrants. It was given by the Immigrant Legal Resource Center June 22, 2000 in San Francisco, CA.

• He coauthored Chapter 9 on “Aggravated Felonies,” and wrote Chapter 8 on "Post Conviction Relief" in K. Brady, et al., California Criminal Law and Immigration (Immigrant Legal Resource Center 1999);
  
• The two-part article, “Criminal Defense of Noncitizens,” published by the National Lawyer's Guild National Immigration Project in its Immigration Newsletter, Vol. 22, No. 3, p. 3 and No. 4, p. 3 (February and June, 1995);
  
• The 2000 Update (with Kathy Brady and Immigration Judge Dana Marks Keener) to Chapter 48, “Representing the Noncitizen Criminal Defendant,” in California Criminal Law – Procedure and Practice (California Continuing Education of the Bar, 4th ed., 2000);
  
• “Vacating Criminal Convictions,” in II AILA Immigration and Nationality Law Handbook – Advanced Practice );
  
• “Evaluating the Chances of Obtaining Post-Conviction Relief: What Immigration Lawyers Need to Know,” in Practice Under IIRAIRA One Year Later: Regulations, Case Law and Agency Interpretations (AILA, R. Patrick Murphy, ed. December, 1997);
  
• N. Tooby, Update Editor, D. Kesselbrenner and L. Rosenberg, “Immigration Law and Crimes” (West Group );
• N. Tooby, “Immigration Information for Criminal Cases in State Courts”, in Immigrants in Courts 46. ( J. Moore, ed., U. Wash. Press, 1999).
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