Bush & Ramirez, L.L.C

Thomas B. Taylor is a trial lawyer with extensive litigation experience emphasizing the defense of cases involving products liability and toxic torts.

Mr. Taylor attended Texas Tech University, receiving a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Industrial Management in 1971. He received his Doctor of Jurisprudence in 1974 from South Texas College of Law.

After graduation from law school, he joined the Houston law firm of Briscoe & Shaffer as an associate. He was named a partner is the successor firm of Briscoe, Powell & Taylor in 1979. In 1984 he founded Taylor & Eggleston, PC. In 1999 he founded Taylor & Warren, L.L.P. Mr. Taylor joined Bush &Ramirez, L.L.C. in November 2008.

Between undergraduate school and law school, he joined Norwood Chemical Company in Houston, Texas, marketing industrial chemicals and solvents. While in law school, he served as a special prosecutor for the Student Honor Code and was an Honor Code Justice.

Mr. Taylor was an Adjunct Professor at the University of Houston-Downtown, teaching in the areas of real property and business law. He is the co-author of Texas Supplement for Real Estate Principals and Practices, Charles E. Merrill Publishing Company, Columbus, Ohio, 1977 and authored the book review for the Houston Bar Journal of Asbestos: Medical and Legal Aspects, 3rd Edition, Prentice Hall Law & Business, 1990. He is also a former member of the faculty of the Texas Municipal Courts Training Center. Mr. Taylor taught pre-trial procedure, trial procedure and evidence to Texas Municipal Court Judges. In 2005, Mr. Taylor, as a seminar speaker, lectured for Harris-Martin and the University of Houston Continuing Legal Education on the topics of deposition procedures and how to take toxic tort depositions.

He has served as a general counsel for the Harris County Community Development Agency and the Harris County Housing Authority. He has represented the counties of Montgomery and San Jacinto, as well as various municipalities and elected and appointed public officials in the defense of Federal Civil Rights claims.

From 1985 to 1995, Mr. Taylor was Board Certified in Criminal Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. Up until approximately 1990, Mr. Taylor's law practice included criminal defense trials and appeals. Mr. Taylor gained trial experience successfully trying and winning numerous criminal cases including murder cases.

Mr. Taylor served as Assistant City Attorney and Prosecutor for the Municipal Court of the City of West University Place, Texas from 1978 to 1982. In 1982, he was appointed to serve as Associate Justice, and in 1990 he was appointed Presiding Judge of the Municipal Court of the City of West University Place, Texas, a position he held until retiring from the bench in December of 2004. As a prosecutor, he prepared for and tried hundreds of cases. From 1982 until his retirement as a judge in 2004, Mr. Taylor presided over thousands of trials.

Mr. Taylor is National Coordinating Counsel for Oglebay Norton Industrial Sands, Inc.'s (now known as Carmeuse Lime & Stone, Inc.) silica litigation.

He is licensed by the Supreme Court of the State of Texas and admitted to practice before the Courts of the United States District Court for the Southern, Eastern, Northern and Western Districts of Texas, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United States of America. He is a member of the State Bar of Texas, the Houston Bar Association, the Texas Association of Defense Counsel and the Defense Research Institute.

In 2005, Mr. Taylor added a mediation practice to the firm’s practice diversity. Mr. Taylor was named to "Who's Who" of Practicing Attorneys in 1991. Mr. Taylor's e-mail address is ttaylor@bushramirez.com.