Ballard Spahr LLP

Litigation

Partner

Tobey M. Daluz is a litigation partner who focuses her practice on corporate restructuring, workouts, and general bankruptcy litigation. Tobey represents debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, insurers, indenture trustees, and official committees in Chapter 9 and 11 bankruptcy cases. She also represents buyers of assets in the context of sales under Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code.

In 2022, Tobey was inducted as a member of the 34th Class of Fellows of the American College of Bankruptcy. She is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute and she is the founding Chair (now member) of the Delaware Network of the International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC). She is a member of the Bankruptcy Law Section and Multicultural Judges and Lawyers Section of the Delaware State Bar Association.

Tobey was appointed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit to serve a three-year term on its Lawyers Advisory Committee, which comments on proposed rules of the Circuit and serves as a liaison between the court and legal community. Over the past two decades, she has served on the Third Circuit's Merit Selection Panel and participated in the review and recommendation of candidates for six Eastern District of Pennsylvania bankruptcy judge positions. She also served as chair of the Third Circuit's Merit Selection Panel, which led to the appointment of two bankruptcy judges for the District of Delaware.

Tobey is the founding partner of the firm's office in Wilmington, Delaware, and served as Office Managing Partner from 2003 to 2011. From 2011 to 2016, Tobey served on the firm's Executive Management Committee as the Partner-in-Charge of Attorney Career Advancement and was responsible for the recruitment, training, professional development, compensation, evaluation, and promotion of nearly 300 non-partner lawyers. Effective July 1, 2016, she was elected by her partners to serve a three-year term on the firm's Board and was reelected for a second three-year term that began on July 1, 2019. Tobey has twice served as Practice Group Leader for the Bankruptcy Group (2009-2011 and 2022-2024).

Tobey lectures both locally and nationally on the topics of bankruptcy and diversity in the legal profession.

Professional Activities

Appointee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit to serve a three-year term on its Lawyers Advisory Committee, which comments on proposed rules of the Circuit and serves as a liaison between the court and legal community

Appointed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit to serve on its Merit Selection Panel and participated in the review and recommendation of seven bankruptcy judge candidates

American College of Bankruptcy Fellow

American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) Member, Unsecured Creditors Newsletter Committee; Member, Advisory Board of ABI's Mid-Atlantic Bankruptcy Workshop

Delaware State Bar Association

Member, Bankruptcy Law Section; Member, Multicultural Judges and Lawyers Section

Delaware Network of the International Women's Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC), Founding Chair and member

James Brister Society of The University of Pennsylvania, an alumni organization that promotes diversity at Penn

Ballard Spahr's Inclusion Council and leader of Diverse Partner Group

Member, Board of Directors of Boys and Girls Clubs of Philadelphia, 2005-2020; Vice Chair, 2010-2012

Admissions

Delaware

Pennsylvania

U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

U.S. Supreme Court

Georgetown University Law Center (J.D. 1990)

University of Pennsylvania (B.A. 1987)