Daniel E. Taylor, a director with Tripp Scott, has more than 40 years of legal experience providing clients throughout South Florida with strategic counsel on governmental, regulatory, environmental and land-use issues.
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.
Prior to 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.
Active in community organizations, Taylor was appointed by the Boca Raton City Council to serve as chairman of its Environmental Advisory Board, and he has served on the city's Environmentally Sensitive Lands Selection Committee. In addition, he served as President of the Board of Directors of the Leadership Broward Foundation and recently was elected Chairman of the Board for the Broward Partnership for the Homeless Inc. He previously served on the advisory board for the Children's Diagnostic & Treatment Center.
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.
Dan spent 21 years in the U.S. Army as a military officer with overseas tours in Vietnam, France and Berlin, Germany. A retired colonel with the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps, 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.
- Licensed to practice:
- Florida
- Areas of Practice:
- Governmental Affairs
- Environmental Law
- Commercial Real Estate
- Litigation Percentage:
- 10% of Practice Devoted to Litigation
- Bar Admissions:
- Florida
- U.S. District Court Southern District of Florida
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Education:
- New York University School of Law, New York, New York
- LL.M.
- University of Florida College of Law, Gainesville, Florida
- J.D.
- University of Florida
- B.A.
- Classes/Seminars Taught:
- Assistant Professor, Department of Law, United States Military Academy
- Chief, International Law Division, Judge Advocate General's School, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1983 - 1986
- Guest Lecturer at law schools of William & Mary and University of Virginia
- Professional Associations and Memberships:
- Charlottesville Committee on Foreign Relations, 1983 - 1986
- Secretary
- Jessup International Moot Court Comp. ASIL, 1984
- Judge
- U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, 1983
Member - Broward County Bar Association, 1994
- Chairman, Law Day Committee
The Florida Bar, Government Lawyers Section, 1990 - 1995
Member, Environmental and Land Use Committee- The Association of Trial Lawyers of America
Member - Boca Raton City Council Environmental Advisory Board
Chairman - Boca Raton
Environmentally Sensitive Lands Selection Committee - Leadership Broward Foundation
Board of Directors - Broward Partnership for the Homeless, Inc.
Board of Directors - Children's Diagnostic & Treatment Center
Advisory Board - The Florida Bar, Government Lawyer Section
Charter Member - Petroleum Industry Association of Florida
Board - Broward County Bar Association
Vice Chairman, Continuing Legal Education Committee
Past Employment Positions:
Broward County Attorney's Office, Chief, Environmental Law Section - Broward County, Assistant Attorney, 1993
- U.S. Army, Retired Colonel, Judge Advocate General's Corps.
Languages:
German
French - In the News:
- Trippscott Press Releases:
- South Florida Legal Guide Names Tripp Scott Attorneys, Firm to Best Lawyer Listing
- Five Attorneys with Tripp Scott Named Top Lawyers in South Florida Legal Guide
- Tripp Scott’s Dennis Smith and Dan Taylor Receive Valor Awards from the American Diabetes Association
- South Florida Legal Guide Names Tripp Scott Attorneys, Firm To Best Lawyer Listing
- Daniel E. Taylor Re-Elected Chairman of the Board for the Broward Partnership for the Homeless
- Six Tripp Scott Attorneys Take Top Honors in 2011 Florida Super Lawyer Magazine
- Four Tripp Scott Attorneys Named Legal Elite by Florida Trend Magazine
- Trippscott Publications:
- Chairman of the board of the Broward directorship for the homeless


