{{Infobox person
| name = Lawrence E. Taylor
| image = Lawrence E Taylor.jpg
| caption =
| birth_name = Lawrence Eric Taylor
| birth_date = April 1, 1942[1]
| birth_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.[1]
| education = University of California, Berkeley (BA)[1]
University of California, Los Angeles (JD)[1]
| occupation = Attorney, author
| years_active =
| website = DUI Center
|module =Military careerService/branch United States Marine Corps[1]Years of service 1961-1964[1] Lawrence Eric Taylor (born April 1, 1942) is an American attorney and author. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and UCLA School of Law, Taylor was a public defender and criminal prosecutor in Los Angeles County before entering private practice. He currently heads a law firm in California that limits its practice to drunk driving defense. Both Taylor and his law firm are ranked "A-V" ("very high to pre-eminent in legal ability and ethics") by the Martindale-Hubbell International Law Directory.[2] Taylor and his law firm have also been recognized by Super Lawyers|Super Lawyers magazine for the years 2004 through 2012 as being among the top 5 percent of DUI defense attorneys.[3] Taylor served in the United States Marine Corps from 1961 to 1964. He served as a Deputy District Attorney for Los Angeles County from 1970 to 1971 and as a Deputy Public Defender from 1971 to 1972.[1] In the case of the People v. Charles Manson, Taylor was the trial court's legal advisor.[4] He was also counsel to the California Supreme Court in the Onion Field murder case, and an independent Special Prosecutor retained by the Attorney General of Montana to conduct a one-year grand jury probe of government corruption from 1975 to 1976.[1] Taylor was voted "professor of the year" during his tenure at Gonzaga University School of Law in Spokane, Washington from 1982 to 1985.[1] He was also a Fulbright Professor of Law at Osaka University in Japan in 1985[1] and a visiting professor at Pepperdine University School of Law.[5] He founded and served as dean of the National College for DUI Defense from 1995 to 1996.[1] He has lectured at over 200 lawyers' seminars in 38 states.[5] He is the author of 12 books, including the well-known textbook on the subject of DUI, now in its seventh edition. On July 25, 2002, Taylor was presented with the NCDD's "Lifetime Achievement Award" at Harvard Law School.[6]
Books[]
- Drunk Driving Defense 7th Edition. (Wolters Kluwer Law & Business/Aspen Publishers ISBN 0-7355-5429-3)(Co-authored with Steven Oberman beginning with the 5th edition)
- Born to Crime (Greenwood Press ISBN 0-313-24172-4)
- California Drunk Driving Defense, 3rd Edition (West ISBN 0-314-26005-6)
- The D.A.: A True Story (William Morrow ISBN 0-688-11731-7)
- Eyewitness Identification (Michie ISBN 0-87215-423-8)
- Handling Criminal Appeals (West ISBN 0-685-59836-5)
- Scientific Interrogation (Michie ISBN 0-87215-685-0)
- Setting Sail (Icarus ISBN 0-8965170-0-4)
- To Honor and Obey (William Morrow ISBN 0-688-09854-1)
- Trail of the Fox (Simon and Schuster ISBN 0-671-25227-5)
- A Trial of Generals (Icarus ISBN 0-89651-775-6)
- Witness Immunity (Charles C.Thomas ISBN 0-398-04765-0)
References[]
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 Hubbell, Martindale (March 2001). Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory: California (A-R, Volume 2, 2001). Martindale-Hubbell. ISBN 9781561604395.
- ↑ "Lawrence Eric Taylor Lawyer Profile on Martindale.com". http://www.martindale.com/Lawrence-Taylor/116274-lawyer.htm/.
- ↑ "Law Offices of Taylor & Taylor in Long Beach, California". http://www.superlawyers.com/california-southern/lawfirm/Law-Offices-of-Lawrence-Taylor-Inc/0e024de5-b624-48ef-9cf9-8f17bc1dfa78.html.
- ↑ To Honor and Obey, page 389.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 http://www.ncdd.com/info_pop_regents.cfm?id=19/
- ↑ http://www.aspenpublishers.com/author.asp?catalog_name=Aspen&author_id=1379&cookie%5Ftest=1
External links[]
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