DETROIT- Butzel Long attorney and shareholder

Maureen Taylor will be a moderator and featured speaker during an ICLE Partnership Seminar on January 13 in Ann Arbor. Taylor talk is called “E-Discovery Update 2009” and will be webcast as well.

Other featured speakers include Hon. Steven D. Pepe, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Ann Arbor and Derek S. Witte, Thomas M. Cooley Law School, Grand Rapids.

Based in Butzel Long’s Detroit office, Taylor’s primary areas of practice are commercial and contract litigation and product liability defense. She has experience in defending catastrophic product liability and tort litigation involving a wide array of automotive component parts, power tools and pharmaceuticals. She has litigated and arbitrated dozens of commercial disputes between suppliers and original equipment manufacturers, and has substantial experience litigating UCC claims. She has successfully represented both buyers and sellers of goods in numerous injunctive proceedings and evidentiary hearings.

Before joining Butzel Long, Taylor was an associate at Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue’s Pittsburgh office, where her practice had a national scope focusing on defending product manufacturers in complex mass tort litigation and defending corporate employers against age, sex, and racial discrimination claims as well as claims of wrongful discharge and defamation. In addition, Taylor was a member of a punitive damages trial team defending a manufacturer in a product liability class action brought on behalf of over 500,000 plaintiffs.

Taylor is admitted to practice in Michigan State Courts and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Michigan, the Western District of Pennsylvania, the Eastern District of Wisconsin, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Taylor has represented clients in courts across the country, including California, Florida, Kentucky, Idaho, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.

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