Margaret Maigret Donovan is a Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School and an attorney with Koskoff Koskoff & Bieder PC. She is a former Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut. Donovan also served six years in the United States Army and was a Captain in the Judge Advocate General’s (JAG) Corps.
Her work at Koskoff centers on firearms litigation and personal injury. Since 2025, Margaret has led national litigation on behalf of federal law enforcement and national security officials who have been unconstitutionally purged from federal service. As a federal prosecutor, her cases focused on firearms prosecutions, domestic terrorism, and violent crime. While in the Army, she spent significant time overseas with multiple combat deployments. In Iraq and Syria, she provided legal advice on more than 1,000 airstrikes and other lethal engagements. She also served as a legal advisor for military investigations into civilian casualties and alleged law of war violations. She has advised on disaster relief operations in Monrovia, Liberia, and spent over a year on the Korean peninsula. She served with the 101st Airborne Division and 5th Special Forces Group.
She is the Chair of the Board of Directors for the Connecticut Veterans Legal Center. She has served on the Editorial Board for the Connecticut Law Tribune and as a Co-Chair of the Connecticut Bar Association’s Federal Practice Section. Margaret is a fellow at the National Institute of Military Justice and a member of the Former JAGs Working Group.
