2003—Present

Senior Partner, Founder — Andy Taylor & Associates, P.C.
Houston, Texas & Brenham, Texas

Trial practice (complex commercial litigation, election litigation, general litigation); Appellate practice (State and Federal Supreme and intermediate courts); general representation before government agencies.

2001—2003

Partner — Locke, Liddell & Sapp, L.L.P.
Houston, Texas

1999—2001

First Assistant Attorney General — 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.

• 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).

1988

1987—1988