Taylor G. MacDonald

An attorney in the firm’s Columbus office, Taylor MacDonald focuses her practice on corporate law. She graduated from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law in May 2022, where she served as an Articles Editor for the Ohio State Law Journal and wrote for the Ohio State Law Journal’s Sixth Circuit Review. Prior to joining Dickinson Wright, Taylor earned an M.A. in French Literature and taught French at Indiana University. Taylor was a summer associate at Dickinson Wright in 2021 and sat for the Ohio bar exam in July 2022.

• Facilitated the sale of five entities owned by a client.
• Acted as legal counsel for an aviation company in its acquisition of a business intelligence provider serving the global business aviation sector.
• Retained by a prominent global private equity firm to oversee the sale of its portfolio company, a leading provider of university administration software.

• Author, “Tennessee’s New Law Moves Hemp-Derived Cannabinoids Under ABC Authority January 1, 2026,” Dickinson Wright Client Alert, June 2025
• Co-Author, “A Lid on the Canna Worms? Congress Formally Pursues Prohibition of Intoxicating Hemp,” Dickinson Wright Client Alert, June 2025
• Co-Author, “Cliffs Without Fences and Fences Without Cliffs: Exploring the Emerging Conflicts Between Quasi-Legal Intoxicating Hemp and Regulated State-Legal Cannabis,” Ohio State Legal Studies Research Paper, No. 855, Drug Enforcement and Policy Center, June 2024
• Author, “User-Friendly Cannabis Payments: Exploring the Viability of Closed-Loop Systems in the Cannabis Space,” Ohio State Legal Studies Research Paper No. 756, Drug Enforcement and Policy Center No. 63, (January 2023)
• Author, “A Weed by Any Other Name: Culture, Context, and the Terminology Shift from Marijuana to Cannabis,” Ohio State Legal Studies Research Paper No. 750, Drug Enforcement and Policy Center No. 62, (January 2023)
• Author, “Compassionate Release in the Time of COVID,” Ohio State Law Journal Sixth Circuit Review: Vol. 82 (2021).
• Author, “Meyers v. Cincinnati Board of Education: Reckless Educators Cannot Claim Government Immunity in Child’s Suicide,” Ohio State Law Journal Sixth Circuit Review: Vol. 82 (2021).
• Author, “A SMART Approach to First Amendment Line Drawing? Free Speech Restrictions in Nonpublic Forums,” Ohio State Law Journal Sixth Circuit Review: Vol. 82 (2021).