Toby advises and represents clients in labor, employment, and disability-rights matters. Drawing on more than a decade at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), he helps employers and employees navigate complex workplace disputes, administrative investigations, and litigation before administrative agencies and in state and federal courts.
Through his work in various roles at the NLRB, including senior counsel to previous Board members and chairs, detailed in the Office of Representation Appeals, and assistant chief counsel to a Board member, Toby gained invaluable experience with procedure and precedent under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). He currently serves as a contributing editor on the leading treatise on private sector traditional labor law, The Developing Labor Law: The Board, the Courts, and the National Labor Relations Act, Bloomberg BNA.
Toby also brings deep experience in disability-rights advocacy and has helped individuals with disabilities in navigating various systems of support and services. Toby has served in multiple leadership roles with disability-related non-profit organizations and has played critical roles in improving policies at the local, state, and federal level. Toby previously served for several years as a member of the Fairfax County School Board’s Advisory Committee for Students with Disabilities, and he helped establish the Fairfax County Special Education Parent Teacher Association (PTA). He and his wife spearheaded a successful effort in 2025 to pass Virginia’s first law pertaining to people who use Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) in the public-school setting. Toby has dedicated much of his work to expanding equitable access and inclusive practices in the workplace and our public schools.
Prior to law school, Toby handled personnel matters as a human resources representative for a Virginia-based Fortune 500 company. He also served in the Army, deploying to Kuwait and Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Toby received his Juris Doctor, with a concentration in labor and employment law, from the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University. He grew up in Norfolk, Virginia, and earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Old Dominion University.
