Andy TaylorFounder |
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Phone: (713) 222-1817
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Federal Courts of Admittance
ó Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
ó Texas Eastern District Court
ó Texas Northern District Court
ó Texas Southern District / Bankruptcy Court
ó Texas Western District Court
Professional Experience
| Founder |
2003 - Present |
| Andy Taylor & Associates, P.C. |
Houston, Texas |
Trial practice (complex commercial litigation, election litigation, general litigation); Appellate practice (State and Federal Supreme and intermediate courts); general representation before government agencies.
| Partner |
2001 - 2003 |
| Locke, Liddell & Sapp, L.L.P. |
Houston, Texas |
| First Assistant Attorney General |
1999 - 2001 |
| Office of the Attorney General of the State of Texas |
Austin, Texas |
Responsible for managing and operating all aspects of 4,000 person agency, including oversight of a biennium budget of over $656 million.
Examples of Significant Cases:
Argued before the United States Supreme Court on behalf of the State of Texas in Johnny Paul Penry v. Gary L. Johnson (2001).
Argued before the United States Supreme Court on behalf of the State of Texas and ten other states in Gail Atwater v. City of Lago Vista (2000).
Lead counsel for the State of Texas in State of Texas v. Marion “Bid” Smith (2000) (state law challenge to 9,300 Polk County citizens’ right to vote).
Lead counsel for the State of Texas in Public Citizen, Inc. v. Elton Bomer, Secretary of State (2000) (federal constitutional challenge to Texas’ system of election of judges).
Lead counsel for the State of Texas in PTI v. Philip Morris (1999) (antitrust challenge to Texas’ tobacco settlement).
Lead counsel for the State of Texas in The State of Texas v. The American Tobacco Company, et al. (1999) (Texas’ tobacco litigation).
Lead counsel for the State of Texas in Bobby Watson v. The State of Texas (1999) (purported class action suit by Medicaid recipients for smoking-related illnesses to obtain economic benefits of Texas’ tobacco settlement).
Lead counsel for the University of Texas in Cliff Gustafson v. DeLoss Dodds (1999) (suit by former baseball coach of UT alleging fraud).
| Partner |
1987 - 1998 |
| Liddell, Sapp, Zivley, Hill & LaBoon, L.L.P. |
Houston, Texas |
| Briefing Attorney for Chief Justice Thomas R. Phillips |
1988 |
| Texas Supreme Court |
Austin, Texas |
| Briefing Attorney for Chief Justice John L. Hill, Jr. |
1987 - 1988 |
| Texas Supreme Court |
Austin, Texas |
Public Service Projects
ó Program Director and Founder
“Supreme Team: Layin’ Down the Law,” a statewide public service program for high school seniors about the U.S. Constitution through the “eyes” of the U.S. Supreme Court. This program was featured on the front cover of the February 1998 issue of the Texas Bar Journal, and was a featured program at the American Bar Association Mid-Year Convention in La Jolla, California, May 1998. This project won First Place, Service to the Public Category, American Bar Association.
Seminars
ó Program Director and Founder
“Lawyering Into the 21st Century,” a Houston and Dallas seminar sponsored by the Texas Young Lawyers Association Lawyering Into the 21st Century Committee, March 1997. This seminar won First Place, Service to the Profession Category, American Bar Association.
ó Program Director and Founder
“Choosing and Courting a Jury,” San Antonio, Dallas and Houston seminars co-sponsored by the Professional Development Department of the State Bar of Texas and the Texas Young Lawyers Association Administration of Justice Committee, 1994-1996.
Education
ó Legal
| Doctor of Jurisprudence |
1987 |
| Valedictorian - Class Standing: 1/208 | |
| St. Mary’s University |
San Antonio, Texas |
ó Undergraduate
| Bachelor of Arts |
1984 |
| Summa Cum Laude - Class Standing: 2/420 | |
| Trinity University |
San Antonio, Texas |
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1980 - 1981 |
| Vanderbilt University |
Nashville, Tennessee |
Publications
ó A Response to Payola Justice: Justice is Not for Sale in Texas, 1998.
ó Advanced Civil Trial Course: Supreme Court Update/Discretionary Review, 1988.
