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Mr. Taylor has over 20 years' 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 industries such as banking, insurance, health care, communications, construction, light manufacturing, retail and transportation industries. 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.

EDUCATION
Georgetown University Law Center, J.D.
    magna cum laude, 1988

Yale University, B.A., cum laude, 1983
   Distinction in History

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Rhode Island Bar Association
   Ethics Committee
American Bar Association
   Antitrust and Litigation Sections
District of Columbia Bar Association
   Antitrust Section

COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
Providence Public Library
   Trustee, Vice ChairmanProvidence Preservation Society
   Trustee, Chair of Education Committee
Hope Club
   Board of Governors, Vice President
Sakonnet Yacht Club
   Board of Governors, Secretary
Warren’s Point Beach Club
   Board of Directors

BAR MEMBERSHIPS
Connecticut, 1988
District of Columbia, 1989
Rhode Island, 2001
U.S. District Court, Rhode Island
U.S. District Court, District of Columbia
U.S. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals
U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit