Overview
Clients rely on attorney Maggie Stringer to resolve their most complex and challenging legal disputes, especially when facing litigation involving sensitive employment or commercial claims impacting their businesses.
Maggie is a versatile litigator and creative problem solver whose background in litigating complex business disputes and defending employers in all types of employment-related litigation enables her to craft a strategy for the successful resolution of each client’s matter. She routinely represents clients in litigation involving contract disputes, business torts, commercial matters, wage and hour class actions, non-compete agreements, and employment disputes involving allegations of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. Maggie also regularly conducts internal workplace investigations and, when necessary, defends clients in white collar prosecution.
Before joining Epstein Becker Green, Maggie was a litigation attorney in the Memphis office of an international law firm, where she represented clients in commercial disputes and defended employers in wage and hour class actions and claims arising under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, and the Fair Labor Standards Act. Prior to that, she served as a law clerk for Chief Magistrate Judge Diane K. Vescovo of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee and for Judge Bernice B. Donald of the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
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Focus Areas
Services
Experience
- Secured the early dismissal of discrimination claims against a restaurant client in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee.
- Defended and advised a restaurant client in a wage and hour collective action involving claims that servers were not properly paid tip credits. Maggie and her team obtained a favorable settlement for her client in the early stages of litigation.
- Achieved a victory in a medical malpractice lawsuit in which the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee granted summary judgment, finding that the plaintiff’s expert was not qualified to testify under Tennessee’s locality rule. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld the ruling.
- Obtained favorable discovery rulings in a dispute involving breach of contract and restrictive covenant claims, leading to the voluntary dismissal of all claims against her client.
Credentials
Education
- University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphrey School of Law (J.D., magna cum laude, 2018)
- Senior Articles Editor, University of Memphis Law Review
- CALI Excellence for the Future Awards: Property I, Health Law, Products Liability, Debtor-Creditor Law, Trial Advocacy
- Vice President, Public Action Law Society
- Rhodes College (B.A., cum laude, 2014)
- Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society
Bar Admissions
- Tennessee
Court Admissions
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- U.S. District Court, District of Colorado
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Arkansas
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Tennessee
- U.S. District Court, Middle District of Tennessee
- U.S. District Court, Western District of Arkansas
- U.S. District Court, Western District of Tennessee
Professional & Community Involvement
- Leo Bearman, Sr. American Inn of Court
- Federal Bar Association Mid-South Chapter, Board of Directors
- American Bar Association
- Memphis Bar Association, Board of Directors
- Professionalism & Ethics Committee, Chair
- Tennessee Bar Association
- Young Lawyers Division, Mock Trial Committee
Events
Past Events
- Litigating a Federal Case from Start to Finish
Insights
Insights
- BlogsEven Privilege Logs Can Be Privileged Under the Fifth Amendment7 minute read
- PublicationsKey Takeaways So Far from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Enforcement of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act ...2 minute read
- BlogsSecond Circuit Adopts “At Least One Purpose” Rule for False Claims Act Cases Premised on Anti-Kickback Statute ...8 minute read
- Blogs
Third Circuit Holds that the Public Disclosure Bar Precludes Qui Tam Actions Based on Information Available on Publicly ...
4 minute read - PublicationsAccommodating Pregnant Employees: A Primer for Navigating Federal and Tennessee Legal LandscapesMarch 2024
- BlogsEEOC Final Rule Implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act Ignites Lawsuits from 19 States8 minute read
- BlogsEEOC Final Rule Implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act9 minute read
- PublicationsDo As I Say (Not As I Do): Tennessee’s Appellate Standard of Review of Expert Witness Qualifications in Health Care ...
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Unclear Boundaries: Rye v. Women’s Care Ctr. Of Memphis, MPLLC and the Transformation of Tennessee’s Summary Judgment ...