Michael S. Taylor Attorney — Reviews, Complaints and Ratings

Michael S. Taylor has over 25 years of experience litigating appeals at the Connecticut Supreme and Appellate Courts, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Supreme Court of the United States. His appellate litigation has encompassed a broad range of topics, including constitutional law, contract disputes, land use and eminent domain, insurance coverage and bad faith, criminal law, products liability and torts, dissolution of marriage, child custody and parental rights, and corporate law. Attorney Taylor also regularly counsels clients at the trial stage regarding the identification and preservation of issues for appeal and has managed large and complex civil litigation and insurance coverage disputes at the trial and appellate levels involving, among other things, free speech and constitutional claims, civil assault claims, CGL coverage, construction defects, products liability, automobile liability, D&O and E&O coverages, homeowners’ liability and bad faith claims. Attorney Taylor has written and lectured on appellate and insurance coverage topics and has been an adjunct professor at The University of Connecticut School of Law, teaching moot court and appellate advocacy. He has an AV peer review rating with Martindale-Hubbell and has been listed in Super Lawyers as an appellate advocate since 2007. He also has been a member of the Defense Research Institute’s appellate and tort and insurance practice sections, the ABA Judicial Division Council of Appellate Lawyers and the American Counsel Association. He previously has been a member of the Oliver Ellsworth Inn of Court and The University of Connecticut Board of Trustees. Attorney Taylor is a 1986 graduate of Manchester High School. He received his B.A. in history, *** laude, from The University of Connecticut and his J.D. from The University of Connecticut School of Law.