Biographies

Daniel E. Taylor, a director of Tripp Scott with more than twenty years of legal experience in government service, provides clients throughout South Florida with strategic counsel on governmental regulatory, environmental and land-use issues.

Before joining Tripp Scott in 1994, Taylor served as chief of the environmental law section for the Broward County Attorney's Office. He has handled land-use and environmental litigation at the trial and appellate levels and has presented cases before federal and local agencies. Additionally, he has drafted and updated environmental ordinances regulating air quality, wetlands and hazardous materials.

Taylor has experience in handling complex permitting, land-use and compliance issues and has represented Florida's largest recycler of solid waste and construction and demolition debris. He has also assisted major national retailers and other large companies in meeting requirements for expansion to South Florida and has successfully represented manufacturing and construction companies in OSHA compliance matters.

Active in community organizations, Taylor was appointed by the Boca Raton City Council as chairman of its Environmental Advisory Board and has served on the city's Environmentally Sensitive Lands Selection Committee. He served as President of the Board of Directors of the Leadership Broward Foundation and as the Executive committeefor the Board of the Broward Partnership for the homeles, Inc. He previously served on the advisory board for the Children's Diagnostic & Treatment Center. Taylor is a retired colonel with the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps.

Taylor is a charter member of the Florida Bar's government lawyer section. He served on the board of the Petroleum Industry Association of Florida and is a past vice chairman of the Broward County Bar Association Continuing Legal Education Committee.

Taylor holds a LL.M. from the New York University School of Law and a Juris Doctor and bachelor's degree from the University of Florida.