Maggie Barker Taylor

Overview

Maggie Barker Taylor is an associate in Dilworth’s litigation department. Before joining the firm, she clerked at both the federal and state court levels. She most recently served as a law clerk to the Honorable Chad F. Kenney of the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, where she worked on a wide range of matters, including employment discrimination, civil rights, and criminal cases. She also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Ramy Djerassi of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, Commerce Court, where she specialized in complex commercial litigation.

Prior to earning her J.D. from Villanova, Maggie worked in Washington, DC, in the field of international trade policy. This experience included a fellowship with the U.S. House of Representatives’ Ways and Means Committee, sub-committee on International Trade, and lobbying on behalf of U.S. textile and apparel companies to remove trade barriers. She has also lived abroad in Mexico City, where she worked for the American Chamber of Commerce of Mexico, and in Cape Town, South Africa, where she worked on a USAID grant to improve living conditions in the township communities. Upon moving with her family to Philadelphia, Maggie volunteered and then worked for Maternity Care Coalition as a grant writer.

As a law student, Maggie represented a teenage client from Central America in Villanova’s Clinic for Asylum, Refugee, Emigrant Services. She also served as an intern for the Honorable Michael M. Baylson of the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and for the Honorable Thomas P. Rogers of the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County.

Maggie earned a master’s degree in development economics from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, where she competed in the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court competition, and an undergraduate degree from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs.