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Tracea represents clients in high-stakes commercial disputes, including patent infringement and trade secret litigation, in federal courts and the ITC. With an electrical and computer engineering background and experience as a federal judicial clerk, she is particularly effective in matters involving complex technical issues and requiring a trial-ready approach. Appreciating that complex litigation is often won through both oral and written advocacy, Tracea excels in shaping the written record through depositions, critical briefing, and dispositive motions practice.
Tracea is a litigation attorney who represents clients in complex business disputes, including high-stakes patent infringement, trade secret, and commercial litigation matters before federal district courts, the Court of Federal Claims, and the International Trade Commission. She also has experience representing clients in a variety of pro bono matters, including employment litigation disputes. Tracea leverages her experience as a former federal judicial law clerk and her love for trial advocacy to passionately represent her clients from pre-litigation through case disposition. She is experienced in drafting substantive briefs, taking and defending witnesses at depositions, arguing in federal court in relation to Markman proceedings and other motion practices, preparing witnesses to give trial testimony, and examining witnesses at trial.
Prior to joining the firm, Tracea practiced at an international law firm and was a judicial clerk for the Honorable Robert W. Schroeder III in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas and the Honorable Jimmie V. Reyna in the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Before law school, she worked as a patent agent, drafting and prosecuting patent applications related to a wide range of technologies, primarily in the electrical, computer, and mechanical technology fields—including software, e-commerce, aerospace, medical devices, appliance and tooling technologies, and business method patents.
Tracea received her B.S. in computer and electrical engineering from North Carolina State University. She received her J.D. from Wake Forest University School of Law, where she was a member of the Order of Barristers National Honor Society and the Moot Court Board. During law school, Tracea received the Outstanding Student Award from the National Association of Women Lawyers—an award presented to a law student who contributed to the advancement of women in society and promoted issues and concerns of women in the legal profession. Tracea also won multiple trial advocacy competitions at the national level and received the Robert Goldberg Award in Trial Advocacy—an award given to the student who showcased the highest aptitude and ethics in trial advocacy at Wake Forest Law.
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