Peter Taylor, a trial lawyer for more than twenty-five
years, spent more than sixteen of those years with the
U.S. Department of Justice. After four years of private
practice in his native Wisconsin, Mr. Taylor joined the
Justice Department’s Tax Division in 1985, where
he litigated federal tax cases in U.S. District Courts
throughout the United States. He was awarded the Assistant
Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award, an
award given to only one Tax Division attorney per year,
for his handling of several complex trials involving abusive
tax shelters.
In 1990, after working at a large Washington law firm,
Mr. Taylor joined the United States Attorney’s Office
for the District of Columbia, serving there until 2003.
He tried over one-hundred jury trials as an Assistant United
States Attorney, including high profile cases such as the
prosecution in the murder of the baby, Brianna Blackmond.
Mr. Taylor also argued appeals in both the United States
Circuit Court for the District of Columbia and in the District
of Columbia Court of Appeals. During his final two years
at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Mr. Taylor served
as Deputy Chief of the Sex Offense/Domestic Violence Unit,
where he supervised some of the Office’s most experienced
prosecutors who handled rapes and child sex abuse cases,
and served as the Office’s liaison to various committees
involved with sexual abuse issues.
While in private practice over the years, Mr. Taylor has
represented both individuals and Fortune 500 companies
in areas ranging from personal injury to complex commercial
litigation to criminal defense. He recently successfully
defended one of the world’s largest franchisors in
a case where the company was accused of wrongfully interfering
with the employment of the CEO of another company. In another
matter, he helped negotiate the settlement of both criminal
and civil charges arising out of the alleged embezzlement
of millions of dollars from the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Mr. Taylor is a graduate of Bethel College (now Bethel
University) in St. Paul, Minnesota. He earned his law degree
from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 1980.
He is a member of the District of Columbia and the United
States Supreme Court Bars, and has been admitted to courts
throughout the United States on a pro hac basis.
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