Maia Fleischman is an associate in Baker Donelson's Birmingham office and works with clients on a variety of litigation matters with a focus on construction and labor & employment.
Maia has a strong commitment to public service. Prior to joining Baker Donelson, she served as a voting rights fellow at the Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program (ADAP). In that role, she worked on potential voting rights issues that intersected with disability rights and litigated Alabama's lack of safe and accessible voting process amid the COVID-19 pandemic. She also served as a legal fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in Miami, where she litigated systemic cases on behalf of detained individuals challenging conditions of confinement and lack of adequate health care.
During her time in law school, Maia served as a clinic student at the University of Miami Federal Appellate Clinic, where she wrote appeals to the Eleventh Circuit on behalf of indigent clients facing long term prison sentences. Maia has also served as a legal intern for the Miami-Dade Public Defender Juvenile Division and Capital Litigation Unit, a law clerk at Osberg-Braun Immigration, and a judicial intern for U.S. Magistrate Judge William Turnoff in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
Maia is fluent in Spanish.