Monica Nugent ’17 is a student at Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law and a 2015 Law & Public Policy Scholar. Ms. Nugent hails from Litchfield, Connecticut and earned her B.A. in English and Political Science from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey in 2011. Prior to entering law school, Ms. Nugent worked as a litigation paralegal in the intellectual property practice group at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld in Philadelphia. During her time at Akin Gump, she gained significant trial experience and was a member of trial teams that brought cases before various federal tribunals, including the Southern District of New York, the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the District of Massachusetts and the United States International Trade Commission. As a law student at Temple, Ms. Nugent is a member of various student organizations including the Brehon Society and the Sports and Entertainment Law Society. While in Washington, D.C., Ms. Nugent interned at Doyle, Barlow and Mazard, PLLC, a boutique law firm specializing in antitrust, international trade, and hospitality law. Ms. Nugent’s policy interests concern enforcement of competition law in the United States in the European Union.
