Tobias is a senior partner in the firm of Tobias, Kraus & Torchia in Cincinnati, Ohio where he practices exclusively in the rights of individual employees, primarily in wrongful termination and discrimination litigation. He has specialized in labor and employment law for 43 years, having represented companies, unions, and individual employees.

Mr. Tobias taught a labor law seminar at the University of Cincinnati (1975-1977), and has made over 150 presentations to bar associations and other groups concerning employee rights. He is the founder of National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA) — Advocates for Employee Rights — and served as its first Executive Director, Chairman, and Editor of the newsletter The Employee Advocate. He was also co-founder and Chair of Workplace Fairness (formerly the National Employee Rights Institute).

A graduate of Harvard College (AB 1951) and Harvard Law School (LLB 1958), Tobias has written extensively. He is the author of ten published articles in the field of labor and employment law; as well as the three volume work Litigating Wrongful Discharge Claims (Callaghan/West 1987). In addition, he co-authored Job Rights and Survival Strategies - A Handbook for Terminated Employees (Workplace Fairness, 1997); was executive producer for Workplace Fairness of Federal Employees Legal Survival Guide (Authors Passman & Kaplan law firm, 1999); and was Editor-in-Chief of Workplace Fairness' Employee Rights Quarterly (Aspen Publishers, July 2000, first issue).