Taylor Goodnight

Taylor represents people charged with all types of crimes. She primarily focuses her work in state court, and in the last year alone defended a wide variety of cases ranging from speeding to assault with a deadly weapon.

Taylor also defends kids charged with crimes in juvenile court. She has helped young people charged with breaking or entering, larceny, possession of marijuana, injury to personal property, and more.

Additionally, she defends men and women accused of violating their federal supervised release or probation conditions in the Federal Western District of North Carolina. She also works with Chris Fialko on many of his cases, including high-level state felonies, federal white-collar crime and drug cases, college Title IX sexual misconduct allegations, and post-conviction matters.

Just recently, in Raleigh, Taylor made a thirty-minute presentation to a North Carolina parole commissioner on behalf of a post-conviction client. In preparation for the meeting, Taylor compiled a 50-page packet for the parole commissioners detailing all of the reasons the parole board should release her client.

Taylor began working in the criminal defense field when she 18 as an intern, and went to law school at UNC-Chapel Hill specifically to become a criminal defense attorney. She has the passion and tools necessary to fully investigate every case by gathering all key information, interviewing law enforcement and other witnesses, and negotiating with and advocating for her client with the appropriate people. Taylor likes to fight for her clients and believes in thorough and zealous representation no matter the client or the charge.

University of North Carolina School of Law

J.D. | Law

Honors: Graduated with honors

Activities: UNC Mock Trial Team (President), Innocence Project, Death Penalty Project

University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

B.A. | Political Science

Honors: Graduated with distinction

Associate Attorney

Fialko Law, PLLC

2016 - Current

Best Advocate

UNC School of Law Broun National Trial Team

Mecklenburg County Bar Association

Current

Activities: Continuing Legal Education Committee, Young Lawyer's Division Legal Assistance Committee

National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers

Current

North Carolina Advocates for Justice

Current

Women Lawyers of Charlotte

Current

North Carolina Bar Association

Current

North Carolina

Western District of North Carolina

4th Circuit

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