Toccara Jule Associate

Toccara advises healthcare clients on mergers, acquisitions, private equity transactions, and regulatory compliance.

Toccara began her career as a bedside nurse in hospice, palliative, and wound care before moving into clinical management and quality and compliance roles, later serving as director of nursing education and program development. She also worked as a surveyor for a CMS-approved accrediting organization, evaluating providers against the Medicare conditions of participation. Having seen compliance from both the provider and surveyor perspectives, she helps clients identify regulatory risk in diligence and address the issues that arise as healthcare businesses change hands. She is a Certified Information Privacy Professional/United States (CIPP/US).

Before joining McGuireWoods, Toccara clerked in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, gaining experience in civil and criminal litigation. During her clerkship, she earned an LLM in Health Law and a Graduate Certificate in Compliance Studies from Loyola University Chicago.

Toccara earned her law degree, magna cum laude, from Seattle University, where she was an executive editor of the Seattle Journal of Technology, Environmental & Innovation Law. Before law school, she earned an MBA and a Graduate Certificate in Advanced Training in Healthcare from the University of Washington and a BS in Nursing, magna cum laude, from Washington State University.