Suzannah Dowling

Suzannah Dowling is an associate in Pierce Atwood’s Employment Practice Group. Suzy represents employers in a wide variety of employment matters, and she is a trained and certified Title IX Investigator through ATIXA.

Prior to joining Pierce Atwood, Suzy served as law clerk to the Honorable William Kayatta of the U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit and the Honorable Jon D. Levy, U.S. District Court, District of Maine.

Suzy graduated first in her class at Maine Law and earned an unprecedented eleven CALI awards for attaining the highest grade in courses ranging from Property to Employment Law.

While at Maine Law, Suzy was a student attorney for the Refugee & Human Rights Clinic, where she was co-counsel with ACLU of New Hampshire on an asylum appeal brief and drafted an amicus brief to the First Circuit.

Suzy was also the head case note and comment editor for the Maine Law Review and founded the student group, If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice.

Before law school, Suzy was a senior business immigration specialist in the Boston office of a large international law firm.

In her free time, Suzy enjoys making homemade jams and jellies, distance running, and spending time with her kids, partner, and cats.