2011 Super Lawyers Pro Bono Award
Attorney Profile

Tracey A. Wood

Tracey Wood

Van Wagner & Wood, SC
One North Pickney Street, Suite 300
Madison, WI 53703

Madison

Wisconsin (WI)

Contact Contact Tracey A. Wood
T: 866-523-5310
F: 608-284-1260

Visit: www.vanwagnerwood.com
Practice Areas: Criminal Defense: DUI/DWI (40%), Criminal Defense (30%), Criminal Defense: White Collar (30%)

Criminal Defense: DUI/DWI

Criminal Defense

Criminal Defense: White Collar

Profile

Whether you are seeking an attorney to defend you against a drunken driving charge or a more severe criminal felony, you will continually find Attorney Tracey A. Wood at the forefront. She is known throughout the legal community as the foremost authority on Wisconsin OWI DUI laws and defenses and hailed for her successful trial and case record. A repeated Super Lawyers® honoree, Attorney Tracey Wood has been pioneering new frontiers for women in law since she entered practice in 1992. She is Wisconsin’s first attorney ever appointed as a Standardized Field Sobriety Test Instructor, first ever Wisconsin attorney – male or female – to be appointed to the Board of Regents to the National College for DUI Defense, the only criminal and DUI defense attorney named to Madison’s Top 25 Attorneys, the only criminal and drunk driving defense lawyer named to the Top 25 Women in Law in Wisconsin and repeatedly named to Madison’s Best Criminal Defense Lawyers. Attorney Tracey Wood chairs the Wisconsin Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Strike Force for the state’s largest association for criminal defense lawyers for which she is the immediate past president. Tracey has authored several articles on defense against drunk driving charges including Challenging Prior Under Influence Convictions, contributed to the infamous DUI attorneys’ bible by Taylor & Oberman, entitled DUI Defense.

Selected To

Wisconsin Super Lawyers 2011
Wisconsin Super Lawyers 2010
Wisconsin Super Lawyers 2009
Wisconsin Super Lawyers 2008
Wisconsin Super Lawyers 2007

Articles about Tracey Wood appearing in Super Lawyers

Sympathy for the Defendant
Tracey Wood is energetic, optimistic, and represents ‘the most hated’ defendants

About Tracey Wood

Admitted: 1993, Wisconsin

Professional Webpage: www.vanwagnerwood.com/Bio/TraceyWood.asp

Honors and Awards:

  • Super Lawyers 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
  • Top 25 Women In The Law 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, Super Lawyers
  • Women In The Law, Wisconsin Law Journal, 2009

Special Licenses/Certifications:

  • Standardized Field Sobreity Test Instructor
  • Wisconsin State Bar, Admitted, 1993

Bar/Professional Activity:

  • Dane County Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, past president
  • Wisconsin Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, immediate past president
  • Wisconsin's first ever attorney appointed to the Board of Regents for the National College for DUI Defense; only female Board of Regents officer; youngest member at time of appointment.
  • Admitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals 7th Circuit
  • Admitted to the U.S. District Court Western District of Wisconsin
  • Admitted to the U.S. District Court Eastern District of Wisconsin
  • Attorney Tracey A. Wood is and always has been an attorney in good standing with the Wisconsin State Bar and the American Bar Association.

Pro bono/Community Service:

  • University Avenue Day Care
  • Broadway Kidz
  • Music Theatre of Madison, Board of Directors

Scholarly Lectures and Writings:

  • Attorney Wood frequently serves as a criminal law commentator and legal analysts to local media, a guest speaker at national seminars, and an instructor to DUI defense attorneys across the United States. For the recent National College for DUI Defense symposium (held at Harvard Law School), Attorney Wood taught courses on How To Present Effective Openings and Closings, How To Cross Examine The State's Chemical Test Expert, and How To Do An Effective Direct Examination of the Defense Expert. Attorney Wood is an instructor at the Impaired Driving Seminar through the UW Law School (2009, Appleton, Wisconsin)

Verdicts and Settlements:

  • Wisconsin State Court of Appeals, State of Wisconsin v. Eller 185 Wisconsin 2d 917, 520 N.W.2d 291 (Ct. App. 1994) Court of Appeals of Wisconsin; United States v. Andrez Perez, 50 F. 3d 396 7th cir. (1995); State of Wisconsin -v- Client, Wisconsin Court of Appeals (1996); United States v. Military Member at Ft. McCoy, Conspiracy & Conversion; Wisconsin vs. OWI 4th Offense Client; Wisconsin vs. Refusal Client; State of Wisconsin -v- Client, Wisconsin Court of Appeals (2007); State of Wisconsin -v- Client, Wisconsin Court of Appeals (2008)

Other Outstanding Achievements:

  • Attorney Tracey Wood is the author of "Challenging Prior Under Influence Convictions." Attorney Wood is a contributing author to "DUI Defense" (the DUI attorney's bible). She is currently co-authoring a Wisconsin treatise on drunk driving laws entitled, "Wisconsin DUI Defense - The Law and Practice".  She also recently published an article explaining the Arizona v. Gant decision in the Wisconsin Law Journal.

Educational Background:

  • Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, B. A., 1988
  • University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison Wisconsin, J. D., 1992
Map Location

Blog entries — Tracey A. Wood
Is http://www.VanWagnerWood.com Authoritative?
 
Are BB Guns Firearms?
 
Sobriety Checkpoints in Wisconsin
 
Columbia County Motion To Suppress Pending In Representative Wood's Case
 
Police Stops: Reasonable Suspicion or Probable Cause?
 
Supreme Courts Limits Search & Seizure

White Papers

Challenging Prior Under Influence Convictions

Prior to November 1, 2000, attorneys in Wisconsin were able to collaterally attack prior operating while under the influence (OWI) convictions if there were any true defects in the plea hearings of those prior convictions. See State v. Foust, 214 Wis. 2d 568, 570 N.W.2d 905 (Ct. App. 1997); State v. Baker, 169 Wis. 2d 49, 485 N.W. 2d 237 (1992). In November of 2000, however, the Wisconsin Supreme Court changed the rules when it decided State v. Hahn, 238 Wis. 2d 889, 618 N.W. 2d 528 (2000). With the Hahn decision, Wisconsin law now tracks federal law in severely limiting challenges to old convictions.


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