Maggie Neely joined A Better Balance in 2026 as a staff attorney. In this role, she engages in all aspects of the organization’s litigation to enforce and defend supportive work-family laws and advance workplace justice for pregnant workers and people with caregiving responsibilities.
Maggie graduated from Harvard Law School, where she served as an Executive Editor of the Harvard Law Review. Before joining A Better Balance, Maggie worked at a civil rights firm in Washington, DC, where she primarily represented clients experiencing workplace discrimination and retaliation, and served as a legal fellow and staff attorney at the Women’s Law Project in Pittsburgh, PA, where she represented individuals facing sex discrimination in education and the workplace and supported the launch of an early-intervention legal assistance program for pregnant and lactating workers and students. Maggie also clerked for the Honorable Ajmel A. Quereshi on the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.