Attorney

In law school, Maggie was twice a regional semi-finalist in the National Trial Competition as part of Duquesne’s Trial Advocacy Team. She was a senior staff editor for the Duquesne Law Review, and was a research assistant for three professors in the areas of higher education, scientific evidence, and Pennsylvania grand jury practices. Maggie co-founded the law school’s first LGBTQ+ student organization. She received CALI Excellence for the Future Awards recognizing her achievement of the highest overall grades in the courses Contracts, Property, Civil Procedure & Drafting, Legal Researching & Writing, Trial Advocacy, and Pennsylvania Civil Procedure.

Upon graduation, Maggie was inducted into the Order of Barristers for her “outstanding achievement in moot court.” Maggie was selected by faculty to receive the Kandy Reidbord Ehrenwerth Award for demonstrating “a keen sense of ethics, a devotion to the law, a concern for the underprivileged, and a general commitment to the social issues affecting society.” Maggie was also awarded the Lynette Norton Memorial Award for demonstrating “academic excellence, skills in oral advocacy through moot court programs, and a keen sense of ethics and professionalism.”

In 2022/2023 she co-authored an amicus curiae brief to the Supreme Court of the United States, submitted on behalf of the American Association for Justice and Pennsylvania Association for Justice, in the case of Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County v. Talevski. The Court agreed with our argument and issued a ruling protecting the civil rights of nursing home residents across the country.