Tracee counsels C-suites and board directors on corporate governance matters, including fiduciary duties, litigation risk avoidance and strategic development, alignment, and design implementation of privacy, cybersecurity, and ESG policies and practices. 

In addition, Tracee serves as a private commercial arbitrator/mediator, through SSAM Alternative Dispute Resolution LLC, combining her extensive legal knowledge with her goal of providing business clients with practical, cost-efficient legal solutions. Courts routinely appoint Tracee to serve as a Court-Appointed Receiver, Referee, and Special Master to facilitate the liquidation of assets and enforcement of court orders in the disposition of complex business disputes.

Tracee has built a reputation for delivering results both in and out of court using precise business-oriented legal analysis and in finding creative and practical solutions swiftly, efficiently, and always with a mindful eye on costs. Tracee’s ability to provide clients with consistent results stems from two unique experiences: first, she spent many years as an attorney in one of the busiest complex commercial courts in the country, Manhattan’s Commercial Division, handling as almost a special master or the equivalent of a magistrate judge, the most challenging, complex, and oftentimes cyclical disputes financial and other markets regularly face. Second, she stays engaged in the development of commercial law and courtroom procedures through her leadership roles in the bar association.

Tracee is a founding member of New York State’s Commercial Division Advisory Council, a group that proposes rules to promote cost-efficient litigation in New York’s commercial courts. She is a member of New York Institute of Technology’s Women’s Technology Council. She served as the chair of the 2,000-member Commercial and Federal Litigation Section of the New York State Bar Association, a group which laid much of the ground work in establishing New York’s Commercial Division, one of the first commercial courts in the country. She served as a commissioner on the New York State Ethics Commission for the Unified Court System, and she served as chair the 150-year old Judiciary Committee of the New York City Bar Association, which reviews the qualifications of all elected or appointed federal, state, and local judges sitting in the City of New York. She is also a member of the national Association of Defense Trial Attorneys (ADTA).

Tracee is a frequent speaker on commercial litigation, emerging technology-related issues, including AI and GenAI, and equity and inclusion in the law. Tracee is the New York Office Co-Chair of Seyfarth’s national Diversity in Action Team and Co-Chair of Seyfarth’s ESG-Impact Group’s Sub-Committee on Corporate Governance. She is creator and host of The Financial Law Forum podcast, which focuses on the intersection between the financial industry, law, and equal access to opportunities. She co-authored the influential report, If Not Now, When: Achieving Equality for Women Attorneys in the Courtroom and in ADR. Richard Lewis, New York State Bar Association president, said of Tracee’s work: “In boardrooms and courtrooms, she exerts her influence as a powerful litigator and role model to encourage more women and attorneys of color to be part of the next generation of attorneys.”

In 2023, Tracee received the Hon. Shira A. Scheindlin Award for Excellence in the Courtroom.