Taylor M. Carpenter

Taylor has considerable experience drafting petitions, pleadings, motions, discovery, and agreements for clients. She has participated in hearings, mediation, and trial and hearing preparation. In addition, Taylor managed an eminent domain caseload as first chair, which entailed drafting complaints, a variety of motions, and settlement memos.

Prior to joining Calfee in 2024, Taylor served as an Associate Attorney for a general practice law firm in Indiana. She served as a Deputy Attorney General for the Real Estate Litigation Section of the Office of the Indiana Attorney General and in the Intensive Deputy Attorney General Program for the Office of the Indiana Attorney General.

Taylor served as a Legal Intern for the Hoosier Environment Council, Legal Clerk for the Indiana Civil Rights Commission, Legal Extern for the Environmental Protection Agency, Region 5, in Chicago, Illinois, and Certified Legal intern for the Marion County (Indiana) Prosecutor’s Office.

Taylor earned her J.D. from Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law in 2020, where she served as the executive managing editor for the Indiana Health Law Review, Vol. XVII and authored “The Unconstitutionality of America’s Toxic Prisons: Inmates’ Ability to Bring Due Process and Cruel and Unusual Punishment Claim,” Indiana Health Law Review, Vol. XVII, Issue 2. She earned the Environmental and Natural Resource Law Graduate Certificate, and she was involved with the Environmental Moot Court as a coach (2020) and a participant (2019).

She earned her B.A. in Journalism with a minor in English, cum laude, from the University of Georgia in 2016.

Education

J.D., Environmental and Natural Resource Law Graduate Certificate, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, 2020

B.A., Journalism, English minor, cum laude, University of Georgia, 2016