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R. Trent Taylor
Partner 
One James Center
rtaylor@mcguirewoods.com901 East Cary Street Richmond, Virginia 23219-4030 F: 804.225.5409    |
Mr. Taylor focuses on defending complex toxic tort and products liability cases. His experience includes representing clients in class actions, MDL coordinated proceedings, nationwide mass tort litigation, and appellate cases in the substantive areas of toxic torts and medical devices. He defends cases involving complex scientific and medical issues, and has concentrated in the defense of novel claims brought by plaintiffs, including public nuisance, civil conspiracy, unjust enrichment, and deceptive trade practices.
- Appellate
- Class Action Litigation
- Product & Consumer Litigation
- Products Liability
- Toxic Torts
- Toxic Tort & Environmental Litigation
- Climate Change
- Food Production
- Phi Beta Kappa
- Associate, Arnold & Porter, Washington, D.C., 1999-2002
- Judicial Clerk, Judge Harry Wellford, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, 1998-1999
- "The tort that refuses to die" (co-authored with Steven R. Williams and James T. Lynn), National Law Journal, April 6, 2009
- "State of North Carolina v. TVA - A New Era in Public Nuisance Law?" Toxics Law Reporter, March 12, 2009
- "Spoliation of Evidence in State and Federal Courts in Virginia," (Co-authored with Collin Hite), The Journal of Civil Litigation, Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys, Fall 2007
- Coach, University of Richmond Mock Trial Team
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EDUCATION Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, J.D., 1998 Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee, B.A., 1995 ADMITTED Virginia 2002 Tennessee 1999 U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit PLACE OF BIRTH Dyersburg, Tennessee |