Lawrence Taylor:
A former Marine and graduate of the University of California at Berkeley (1966) and the UCLA School of Law (1969), Lawrence Taylor served as deputy public defender and deputy district attorney in Los Angeles before entering private practice. He was the trial judge's legal advisor in People vs Charles Manson, was Supreme Court counsel in the Onion Field murder case, and was retained by the Attorney General of Montana as an independent Special Prosecutor to conduct a one-year grand jury probe of governmental corruption.

Turning briefly to teaching, Mr. Taylor served on the faculty of Gonzaga University School of Law, where he was voted "Professor of the Year", and later was appointed Fulbright Professor of Law at Osaka University in Japan.

Mr. Taylor is also the author of over thirty articles and 13 books, including the standard text on DUI/DWI litigation, Drunk Driving Defense, 5th edition (N.Y.: Aspen Law and Business) and California Drunk Driving Defense, 3rd edition (St. Paul, MN: West Publishing).

Over the past twenty-five years Mr. Taylor has proven a popular lecturer on DUI trial techniques at over 200 CLE seminars in 38 states, including those sponsored by the American Bar Association, Association of Trial Lawyers of America, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and numerous state bar associations including the California State Bar. He was one of the original thirteen founders of the National College for DUI Defense, served on the Board of Regents for five years, and was elected Dean for 1995-1996. On July 25, 2002, at Harvard Law School, Mr. Taylor was presented with the National College's "Richard Erwin Lifetime Achievement Award".