Erin Bennett Taylor is a partner in the firm’s Houston office who practices commercial and insurance litigation, with an emphasis on financial services litigation. Erin has significant experience assisting life insurance clients on any number of high-stakes issues. She has wide-ranging experience with class and mass actions involving complex actuarial disputes relating to cost of insurance provisions in life insurance policies. She has also handled litigation involving RICO and antitrust disputes, unfair insurance practices, bad faith claims handling, stranger-originated life insurance, and financial misrepresentation claims at all stages of a case’s development – from initial briefing and discovery through favorable resolution.

Erin is also one of the firm’s “go-to” lawyers when a case needs to be successfully prepared for trial or appeal. Her expertise includes managing all aspects of the pre-trial phase, including briefing pre-trial and post-trial motions and preparing witnesses to testify at trial. She has also drafted appellate briefs filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth and Ninth Circuits, which secured trial court victories in the client’s favor.

Erin is a member of the Houston Bar Association and the Houston Association of Women Attorneys. During law school, Erin was the Chief Articles Editor of the Houston Law Review and interned with the Fourteenth Court of Appeals.

Outside of the office, Erin enjoys cheering for the Baylor Bears, discovering Houston’s best restaurants, and attending events in Houston’s art and theater scene.