Taylor Mullaney is an associate in the Chicago office of Quinn Emanuel. She joined the firm in 2022. Prior to joining Quinn, Taylor worked as a law clerk to Chief Judge Timothy J. Corrigan of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida and as a litigation associate at another large law firm. She has research, writing, and trial experience in various areas of law, including First Amendment, class action litigation, complex commercial disputes, products liability, government investigations, and criminal matters. Taylor has also represented clients pro bono in family and criminal law cases.
During law school, Taylor earned numerous awards as a member of Northwestern’s National Moot Court Team. She also worked as a Note and Comment Editor for the Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy, as a fellow in Equip for Equality’s Special Education Clinic, and as a student advocate in the Bluhm Legal Clinic’s Center on Wrongful Convictions, where she was part of a team that secured an exoneration for a wrongfully convicted client.
Prior to law school, Taylor taught high school English and French in Memphis, Tennessee through Teach For America.
- Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
(J.D., cum laude, 2018)- Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy:
- Note & Comment Editor
- 68th Annual American College of Trial Lawyers and New York City Bar Association National Moot Court Competition
- Winner (best team, best oralist in final round of national competition, best oralist in final round of regional competition)
- Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy:
- Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism
(M.S., Journalism, 2015) - College of William & Mary
(B.A., English and French, summa cum laude, 2012)- Phi Beta Kappa
- Monroe Scholar
- The State Bar of Illinois
- French
- Law Clerk for the Honorable Chief Judge Timothy J. Corrigan:
- United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, 2020-2022
- Co-Author, The Robare Ruling Regarding ‘May’ Disclosures and ‘Willfulness’, Westlaw Journal, (June 2019)
- Author, Litigating Trauma as Disability in American Schools, Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy, (May 2018)
- Co-Author and Narrator, Shaken, Life of the Law, Radio France International, Prison Insider, (December 2016)