Tara Lai Quinlan

Associate
Email: tlq@outtengolden.com

TARA LAI QUINLAN is an associate at Outten & Golden LLP, where she represents employees in both individual and class action matters. Ms. Quinlan represents employees in aspects of employment law, including discrimination, retaliation, sexual harassment and wage and hour cases.

Ms. Quinlan was a Law Clerk in the Staff Attorneys’ Office for the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She received her J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law and her B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.

Before law school, Ms. Quinlan served as a Housing Discrimination Investigator/Test Coordinator for Sentinel Fair Housing in Oakland, California, where she investigated housing discrimination complaints, coordinated fair housing testing, and conducted training seminars on fair housing law.

Ms. Quinlan continues to write on issues of post-9/11 racial profiling and community policing with Professor Deborah Ramirez of Northeastern University School of Law.

Ms. Quinlan is admitted to the state and federal bars of New York. Ms. Quinlan was recently appointed Vice-Chair of the American Bar Association, Young Lawyers’ Division – Individual Rights and Responsibilities Section. Ms. Quinlan serves on the Pro Bono and Legal Services Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and is Co-Chair of the Issues Committee of the Asian American Bar Association of New York.