Lawrence Eric Taylor
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Lawrence Eric Taylor (born April 1, 1942) is an 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.[1] Taylor and his law firm have also been recognized by Super Lawyers magazine for the years 2004 through 2008 as being among the top 5 percent of DUI defense attorneys.[2]
In the case of the People v. Charles Manson, Taylor was the trial court's legal advisor.[3] 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. Taylor was voted "professor of the year" during his tenure at Gonzaga University School of Law. He was also a Fulbright Professor of Law at Osaka University in Japan and a visiting professor at Pepperdine University School of Law.[4]
A founder and former dean] of the National College for DUI Defense, Taylor has lectured at over 200 lawyers' seminars in 38 states.[4] He is the author of 15 books, including the well-known textbook on the subject of DUI, now in its sixth edition. On July 25, 2002, Taylor was presented with the NCDD's "Lifetime Achievement Award" at Harvard Law School.[citation needed]
[edit] Books
- Drunk Driving Defense 6th Edition. (Wolters Kluwer Law & Business/Aspen Publishers ISBN 0735554293)
- 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 0-68559-836-5)
- Scientific Interrogation (Michie ISBN 0-87215-685-0)
- Setting Sail (Icarus ISBN 0-98651-700-4)
- 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)
