At the Law Offices of Tony Rackauckas, our expertise is built upon Tony’s decades of legal experience.   With twenty years of experience as the Orange County District Attorney and nine years serving as a judge, Tony Rackauckas has been involved with literally hundreds of trials.  His vast experience in litigation and settlement negotiations is a tremendous asset to clients who have high profile and sensitive matters.

A key strength of the Law Offices of Tony Rackauckas is our ability to handle high profile and sensitive matters.  Having served for nearly three decades in the public sector, Tony knows how to handle these issues for his select clients.  The firm can be trusted to serve at the highest level of advocacy for our clients.

Tony brings to the table a team of highly-qualified attorneys serving as Of Counsel to help with a wide range of litigation and transactional matters.  Our Litigation Practice builds upon Tony’s experience with literally hundreds of trials.  Of equal importance, the firm’s Business Transactions Practice offers effective contract negotiations and preparation.

PERSONAL BACKGROUND

Tony Rackauckas is grateful for the privilege to have spent his life serving the public. As the Orange County District Attorney, he was often called “a tough, no-nonsense DA” by national television talk show hosts, colleagues, and citizens.

Tony’s maternal grandparents immigrated to Arizona from Mexico around 1921. As the second of six children, Tony primarily spoke Spanish for the first three years of his life. Tony enlisted in the U.S. Army as a paratrooper in the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) and served on active duty from 1962 to 1964 and remained in the U.S. Army Reserve for four more years. After his military service, Tony studied political science at California State University, Long Beach. “I was grateful to work nights as a security guard. It allowed me to take classes during the day and support my young, growing family.” He went on to earn his Juris Doctor from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles in 1971.  His passion and motivation for his job stem from the patriotism and philanthropy he learned as a child growing up in a military family in East Los Angeles.  From 1968 to 1972, Tony worked as a social worker in the Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services.  In 1972, Tony joined the Orange County District Attorney’s Office as a deputy district attorney. Over the next 15 years, he conducted over 40 homicide jury trials and over 100 felony jury trials including rape, robbery, arson, assault, burglary, fraud, narcotics, and child molestation. After briefly working in private practice, he was appointed in 1990 as a municipal court judge and three years later was appointed Tony to the superior court, and he was named Presiding Judge of its Appellate Department in 1996.  In June 1998, Tony ran for District Attorney and was overwhelmingly elected by the citizens of Orange County, and was then re-elected four times in 2002, 2006, 2010, and 2014.