Richard Taylor
Mobile, Alabama
Richard Taylor is a senior shareholder at Taylor Martino Zarzaur in Mobile, Alabama. Mr. Taylor concentrates primarily on death and personal injury litigation with special emphasis on products liability and vehicle accidents. Mr. Taylor enjoys litigating automobile product liability cases, machinery defect cases and fire and explosion accidents. He has also settled and tried many industrial and construction accident cases in the past twenty years. He has been licensed to practice in all courts of Alabama and Mississippi for over twenty years.
Mr. Taylor was born and raised in Selma, Alabama. He is married and has three children. Mr. Taylor is active on the Board of Directors at the local YMCA and the Mobile Bar Volunteer Lawyer Program, and on Executive Committee of the American Association for Justice (AAJ). He is a sustaining member of the Alabama Trial Lawyers Association (ATLA), and the South Alabama Trial Lawyers Association (SATLA). He attends St. Paul's Episcopal Church, enjoys playing with his children, fly-fishing, bird hunting and exercising.
- Areas of Practice:
- Products Liability
- Fire/Explosion
- Death and Injury
- Industrial/Construction Accidents
- Bar Admissions:
- Alabama, 1985
- Mississippi, 1986
- U.S. District Court Southern District of Alabama
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Mississippi
- U.S. District Court Southern District of Mississippi
- U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit
- Education:
- Cumberland School of Law, Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama, 1985
J.D.
- University of South Alabama, 1982
B.A.
- Professional Associations and Memberships:
- Alabama State Bar Association
- Mississippi State Bar Association
- Mobile Bar Association
- Member
- American Bar Association
- Member
- Alabama Association for Justice, 1996 - Present
- Sustaining Member/Board of Governors
- Mississippi Association for Justice
- Member
- American Association for Justice
- Sustaining Member/Executive Committee
- Association of Plaintiff Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America
- Member/National Advisory Board
- YMCA
- Board of Directors
- South Alabama Trial Lawyers Association
- Member
