Tracey Blackwell

Biography

Tracey Blackwell’s practice focuses on commercial contracts, commercial disputes and litigation and arbitration for Fortune 500 companies involved in technology, construction and building services, consumer goods, retail, insurance and financial services. Her practice is national. For over a decade she has served as regional and national commercial counsel for a Fortune 100 corporation. Ms. Blackwell has successfully tried cases in state and federal courts and in arbitration in multiple jurisdictions across the U.S. on matters broadly ranging from business disputes and civil litigation to insurance defense. She also has successfully defended a range of employment discrimination suits alleging age, gender and race bias on behalf of the firm’s clients.

Tracey’s recent representations include: a technology company defending against consumer state actions involving the CAN-SPAM Act and national CyberTiplines; a consumer reporting agency in federal litigation concerning its methods of check warranty declination with its customers; a revenue services company in a dispute threatening to examine its employee background checks procedure; and an engineering consulting firm securing dismissal of a lawsuit alleging claims of race and age discrimination, and confirmation by the Eleventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.

Tracey also has in-depth experience in drafting and negotiating complex commercial contracts for various kinds of large commercial, industrial, and mission critical projects across the U.S. She has worked on the buy and supply side of commercial transactions, as well as in the public contracting arena of procurement, counseling clients on responses to public solicitations.

Tracey is Co-Chair of the firm’s Litigation Practice Group and is Partner-In-Charge of the firm’s Atlanta Office.

Tracey earned her J.D. at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, and received her B.A. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is admitted to practice in the States of Georgia and Illinois; U.S. District Courts, Northeastern District of Illinois; Illinois Supreme Court; Northern and Middle Districts of Georgia; Georgia Supreme Court; Georgia Court of Appeals; and the U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

Education & Bar Admissions

Education

• University of California-Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, J.D.
• University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, B.A.

Bar Admissions

• Georgia
• Illinois

In the News

• 6/1/2010 - Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan opens its fifteenth office in Atlanta, Georgia