Tara litigates employment disputes before state and federal courts and administrative agencies and counsels clients on a broad spectrum of employment issues. She has experience with cases involving defamation, Title IX claims, and employment laws, as well as complex commercial litigation. Tara represents clients in a broad range of industries, including the education sector.

Prior to joining Mintz, Tara served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Judge Angel Kelley of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Earlier, she was an associate at a Boston-based litigation firm. In that role, she handled a wide array of matters involving employment, commercial, civil rights, and criminal defense litigation. In a multi-defendant civil case in federal court, she served as second chair. She also was lead counsel in a four-day evidentiary hearing in a state administrative matter.

She began her career as an assistant attorney general with the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office, where she served in the Trial, Environmental Protection, and Civil Rights divisions.

While earning her JD, Tara interned with the Honorable O. Rogeriee Thompson of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and the Parole Division of the Public Defender Services in Washington, DC. She also participated in the Northeastern University School of Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project. In law school, Tara won several awards and was selected as one of two student speakers at her commencement.