Marguerite (Maggie) McGowan Stringer

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. Additionally, Maggie has experience litigating matters involving copyright infringement, trademark infringement, unfair competition, and breach of contract claims involving trademarks and/or trade dress issues. Maggie also regularly conducts internal workplace investigations and, when necessary, defends clients in white collar prosecution.

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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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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

Professional & Community Involvement

• Leo Bearman, Sr. American Inn of Court
• American Bar Association
  • Section on Litigation
  • Young Lawyers Division
• Memphis Bar Association, Board of Directors
  • Professionalism & Ethics Committee, Chair
• Tennessee Bar Association
  • Young Lawyers Division, Mock Trial Committee
• White Station High School Mock Trial Team, Volunteer Coach

Past Events