Profile: Bernard S Taylor Sr

Product Liability

Biography: Product Liability

Bernard Taylor is the chair of the firm's product liability group and concentrates his practice in complex disputes including commercial litigation, products liability and toxic tort lawsuits. Mr Taylor is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.

Mr Taylor is lead trial lawyer representing Flexible Products Company in the isocyanate toxic tort litigation involving 1,600 plaintiffs and pending in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He is the lead trial lawyer representing Louisiana Pacific Corporation in toxic tort litigation involving multiple plaintiffs and pending in the US District Court for the Middle District of Alabama - Northern Division.

Mr Taylor was co-lead trial counsel representing Union Carbide in the 2002 West Virginia Mass tort products liability asbestos trial involving over 2,000 plaintiffs. Mr Taylor also served as a member of the national trial teams for Allegiance Healthcare Corporation and Baxter Healthcare Corporation in the defence of mass tort litigation involving the use of natural rubber latex gloves.

He received his JD degree in 1982 from Vanderbilt University School of Law and his BA from Wayne State University. From 1970 to 1979, Mr Taylor was a police officer for the Detroit Police Department.

Mr Taylor is a member of the American Bar Association, the Georgia Bar Association, the Gate City Bar Association, the Atlanta Bar Association and a member of the DeKalb County, Georgia Chapter of 100 Black Men of America. From 1994 to 1997 he served on The Georgia Commission on Dispute Resolution, having been appointed by the justices of the Supreme Court of Georgia.