Allan Taylor

Allan Taylor is a graduate of Phillips Academy (1963) and Williams College (1967). Following graduation from Williams, he attended Columbia University School of Law for one year, and then was drafted into military service in 1968. He graduated first in his class from the Army’s officer candidate school in 1969, and served as an Army intelligence officer in Vietnam from 1970 to 1971. During his service in Vietnam, he was awarded the Bronze Star and the Air Medal. Upon his return from Vietnam, he was discharged from the Army and returned to law school at Columbia, graduating in 1973.

Allan began his legal career as an associate at Bingham, Dana & Gould in 1973. He subsequently joined the firm of Powers & Hall, P.C. in1976, and became a partner in the firm in 1979. In 1984, he was a founding partner in Taylor, Anderson & Travers, P.C., which was reorganized as Taylor Duane Barton & Gilman, P.C. in 1995. Allan retired from Taylor Duane at the end of 2012. He is currently of counsel to Peabody & Arnold, P.C., although he remains mostly retired from the practice of law. Prior to his retirement, Allan’s law practice was concentrated in civil litigation, insurance and reinsurance law. He was active in both the state and federal courts of Massachusetts as well as courts in numerous other jurisdictions nationwide. He also served from time to time as an arbitrator of insurance disputes.

Allan has served as a grant reviewer for the Massachusetts Bar Foundation.

As an Access to Justice Fellow, Allan will be working with the newly established Veterans Treatment Court, a specialty court within the Massachusetts Trial Court that serves veterans who are struggling with addiction, mental health issues, and other concurring disorders. Allan will be working to link up providers of pro bono civil legal services with participants in the Veterans Treatment Court program to help those veterans resolve benefits, housing, domestic relations, indebtedness, and other civil legal issues that create additional roadblocks to their recovery.