Tara Kate Clarke

Tara K. Clarke focuses on estate administration, wills and commercial litigation. Ms. Clarke returned home to Maryland to practice law after graduating in the inaugural class of Drexel University College of Law and serving a judicial clerkship with the Honorable Mark I. Bernstein, Court of Common Pleas in the First Judicial District of Philadelphia’s Commerce Court. Prior to attending law school, Ms. Clarke was a research biologist with the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute at the National Naval Medical Center and is published in the International Journal of Radiation Biology. She also presented and published in the proceedings of NATO Human Factors and Medicine Panel Research Task Group Meeting 2005.

Professional Memberships
• American Bar Association
     Section on Real Probate and Trust Law
• Baltimore City Bar Association
• Maryland State Bar Association
     Section on Estates and Trusts
     Section on Animal Law
     Young Lawyers Section

Community Service
• 11th Street Family Health Services
     Prepared wills, power of attorney and
     advanced medical directive documents
     for low-income families
• Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service
     Pro bono cases in the area of wills, estates,
     trusts, and guardianships

Hobbies include playing tennis, squash and volleyball, traveling, reading, and spending time with family and friends.