Rayford H. Taylor received a law degree
in 1974 from Florida
State University. He is a
member of the Florida Bar and the State Bar of Georgia, and
practices in the areas of legislative consultation,
administrative and governmental law, appellate practice and
workers' compensation.
Taylor
joined Stiles, Taylor & Grace, P.A. as a shareholder in
1987 to manage the firm's
first branch office in Tallahassee, Florida,and currently
manages the firm's Atlanta office. He had been
affiliated with The Florida Bar for more than 12 years where
he served as its
general counsel, legislative counsel and staff attorney.
Taylor is admitted to practice before
the United States Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, the
United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, the United
States District Court for the Northern
District of Georgia,
and the United States
District Court for the Northern and
Middle Districts
of Florida, the Supreme
Court of Georgia, the Supreme Court of Florida, and the
Georgia Court of Appeals.
He currently
is the treasurer of
the National Workers' Compensation Defense Network (NWCDN).
He has served as the chair of the Practice Management
and Technology Section of
the Florida Bar, and the Law Office Management
Advisory Service (LOMAS).
Taylor also served on the Solo and Small Firm Practitioner
Task Force of the Florida Bar for three years. He has also
been active in the American Bar Association, where he has
served on the Committee on Specialization. Additionally, he
has held several offices, including chairman for the
Governmental Relations Section of the National Association
of Bar Executives.
Other memberships include the Florida Lawyers Legal
Insurance Corporation (FLLIC),
a group responsible for overseeing legal expense insurance.
He is currently a member of
the Board, after previously serving as the group's
president,
vice president, secretary, and as a member of the Board of
Directors.
Civic and community work includes
serving on the Board of Directors for Capital Tiger Bay and
the Florida State University College of Law Alumni
Association and membership in Gamma Rho International.
Taylor has lectured on legislative
matters, workers' compensation and estate planning. He is
the author of "Bar Discipline in the Sunshine-How It Can
Affect Trial Lawyers and the Legal Profession at Large,", as
published in The
Florida Bar Journal.
