Taylor Simeone is O’Melveny’s Senior Pro Bono Counsel, a full-time pro bono professional responsible for managing the Firm’s national and international pro bono program, with a focus on O’Melveny’s New York and Washington D.C. offices. Taylor fosters the firm’s relationships with legal services organizations and not-for-profits, mentors attorneys on pro bono matters, and encourages O’Melveny’s lawyers to maintain a robust pro bono practice. She also organizes client partnerships on pro bono matters and clinics.
Taylor has significant experience litigating reproductive rights, immigration, and impact matters. In her role as Senior Pro Bono Counsel, she engages with every area of the firm’s pro bono practice, both substantively and administratively.
Before joining O’Melveny, Taylor taught second grade in Brooklyn, New York as a Teach for America Corps Member.
- Representing parents and children separated at the United States border in FTCA litigation in federal court.
- Representing providers in defending reproductive rights.
- Representing asylum and SIJS applicants in immigration court.
- Representing clients at trial in state and federal court.
Admissions
Bar Admissions
- California
- New York
Court Admissions
- US District Courts, Central District of California
- US Court of Appeals, Fifth and Sixth Circuits
Education
- Fordham University, J.D.: cum laude; Ruth Whitehead Whaley Scholar; Fordham Urban Law Journal; Dispute Resolution Society; Best Advocate in the Preliminary Rounds, William M. Tendy Trial Advocacy Competition; Honorable Mention for Best Oral Advocate, Willem C. Vis International Arbitration Moot
- Hunter College, M.S., Education
- Loyola Marymount University, B.A., Psychology