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Mr. Taylor has almost 20 years of experience representing businesses, associations, government agencies, and individuals in litigation and arbitration proceedings around the country. He also counsels clients on antitrust, unfair competition and other trade regulation issues.

Mr. Taylor has handled a wide variety of commercial disputes for clients in the banking, insurance, health care, communications, construction, light manufacturing, retail and transportation industries, among others. His trial experience includes complex contract, business tort and intellectual property litigation. He has represented state and private parties in land condemnation actions, and in 2006 won an important Rhode Island Supreme Court case voiding as unconstitutional a taking of private property for economic development purposes. He was featured in Rhode Island Lawyers Weekly after winning summary judgment for a publicly-traded financial institution accused of conspiracy, interference with contract and other wrongful conduct.

Mr. Taylor’s antitrust experience includes advising clients in connection with refusals to deal, dealer terminations, resale price maintenance, exclusive dealing arrangements, joint marketing and production ventures, tying arrangements, most favored nation clauses, monopolization, and mergers. He has represented clients in civil investigations by the Federal Trade Commission, Department of Justice Antitrust Division, and state and foreign antitrust enforcers. He has prepared antitrust compliance guidelines and conducted compliance seminars. He has represented clients in a variety of litigation matters involving claims under the Sherman Act, Clayton Act, and state unfair trade practices laws.

Mr. Taylor is the co-editor of Testimonial Privileges, a two-volume treatise published by the West Group, and speaks on the subjects of attorney-client privilege and legal ethics. He is the author of the Firm's Antitrust and Trade Regulation Briefing.

He received his J.D., magna cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center and his B.A., cum laude, from Yale University. He is admitted to practice law in Rhode Island, Connecticut and the District of Columbia. He is a member of the bar of the U.S. District Courts for Rhode Island and the District of Columbia, and of the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the 1st, 4th, 11th, District of Columbia and Federal Circuits.

Among his many volunteer activities, Mr. Taylor is a Trustee and Assistant Secretary of the Providence Public Library, and a Trustee of the Providence Preservation Society. He serves as President of the Yale Association of Rhode Island, Co-chairs the Annual Fund for Moses Brown School. He is a member of the Capital Campaign Committee at the Pawtucket Armory Association, on the Board of Governors at the Hope Club and Board of Governors and Secretary of the Sakonnet Yacht Club. He is a member of the Board of Directors at Warren’s Point Beach Club.