Margaret Donovan

Margaret joined Koskoff in 2024 after serving six years as an Assistant United States Attorney for the United States Attorney’s Office, District of Connecticut. Prior to that, she spent six years as a lawyer in the United States Army JAG Corps.

With an even-keeled and consistent perspective on complex legal issues, she brings a commitment to accountability in her pursuit of justice. She is part of the firm’s growing firearms litigation practice, government litigation, and other malpractice areas.

During her tenure as a federal prosecutor, her cases focused on firearms prosecutions, domestic terrorism, and violent crime. She has tried numerous federal criminal trials to verdict and has briefed and argued multiple cases before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Before joining the Department of Justice, Margaret was a Captain in the Army, serving in the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) and later in 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. She spent significant time overseas, serving on combat deployments to Iraq and Syria, advising on disaster relief operations in Liberia, and being stationed over a year on the Korean peninsula.

She has taught repeat courses on federal prosecution and on the Russo-Ukrainian War at Yale Law School as a Visiting Lecturer in Law. She is currently a coordinating attorney with Yale Law School’s Peter Gruber Rule of Law Clinic.