Peg Toledo

Peg Toledo joins Signature Resolution with three decades of complex litigation experience, a background as a Certified Appellate Specialist, and a practice built in the most technically demanding domains of California law. Her cases required genuine scientific literacy, not as a credential but as a working tool, and the disputes she handled carried consequences measured in regulatory outcomes, public policy, and institutional exposure. That environment trained her to assess risk with precision and to meet the people carrying it with equal care and compassion. As a neutral, she brings this experience to every dispute she mediates.

That meticulous attunement to the people and the problem shapes how Peg runs a session. She is deliberate about building trust before moving toward resolution, understanding that parties make their best decisions from a place of calm, not pressure. She listens past stated positions, pays close attention to the language parties reach for when the stakes are highest, and treats a word or concern that keeps returning across rooms as a sign that something central to the dispute has not yet been addressed. When momentum stalls, she considers slowing down rather than pushing through, asking whether the impasse reflects something unheard rather than something immovable. That discipline is what allows her to lean in with presence and clarity when the conversation is hardest.

Her appellate background gives Peg a specific and honest read on post-judgment risk that informs how she engages with parties. She spent much of her career working with counsel in the aftermath of trial court losses, evaluating whether a viable appeal existed and delivering her assessment with diplomacy and directness. Peg is a technician in the life cycle of complex litigation. That body of work, built across careful review of hundreds of appellate records alongside the attorneys who had to decide what to do next, gives her the standing to speak candidly about what continued litigation actually offers and what it costs. At the mediation table, Peg draws on this hard-earned authority, giving parties a credible picture of the road ahead that is anchored in evidence rather than speculation.

Peg began her career as a law clerk to Senior Circuit Judge Warren J. Ferguson of the Ninth Circuit, a clerkship that set the intellectual standard she has carried throughout her practice. At Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, she built a wide litigation foundation across class action, employment, environmental, insurance, derivative, and False Claims Act matters before naming appellate law as her specialty and earning California State Bar certification as an appellate specialist. Her tenure as Deputy Attorney General placed her as lead litigator on a multi-billion-dollar case with direct consequences for California’s budget and one of the first cases in the country challenging the security of electronic voting machines, giving her the kind of first-chair experience on high-profile, high-consequence matters that only public service at that level can provide. She later co-founded Toledo Don LLP, a successful women-owned litigation firm, before joining Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer as Counsel, where she concentrated on consumer protection, Proposition 65, and complex product and regulatory disputes. Across three decades, her practice moved fluidly between Big Law, government, and her own firm, accumulating perspective from every angle of complex civil litigation.

Now at Signature Resolution, Peg offers parties the product of a career spent at the intersection of analytical rigor and human attentiveness. She has litigated at the highest levels of complexity, evaluated the aftermath of trial losses, and cultivated the kind of presence in a mediation room that makes difficult conversations possible. For attorneys navigating sophisticated matters where both the substance and the stakes require a neutral who is tenacious and fully engaged, Peg delivers in full.