Lauren A. Taylor is an attorney in the Tampa office of Shutts & Bowen LLP, where she is a member of the Trusts & Estates Practice Group. Lauren focuses her practice in the areas of wills, trusts, and estates, and has experience with the following:
- estate planning and the preparation of revocable and irrevocable trusts,
- estate, trust, and probate administration,
- estate and trust litigation,
- trust modification and termination,
- federal estate and gift taxation,
- private foundations and other tax exempt organizations,
- pre-marital and post-marital agreements, and
- business succession planning.
Lauren has also represented public and private companies and individuals in a broad range of matters, including business, real estate, and employment litigation in state and federal courts and on appeal.
Before entering private practice, Lauren clerked for the Honorable Elizabeth A. Jenkins of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida. While in law school, Lauren served as an editor of the Florida Law Review and was a member of Florida Blue Key. She has been cited in the Trust & Estates Florida Bar treatises, Practice Under the Florida ProbateCode and Litigation Under the Florida Probate Code.
PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC ACTIVITIES:
- The Florida Bar
- Real Property, Probate, and Trust Section
- Hillsborough County Bar Association
- Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section
- Tampa Bay Estate Planning Council
- Tampa Connection, Class of 2017
- Alumni Committee
- Board Member, After-School All-Stars Tampa Bay
- Committee Chair, A-Club Committee
- Volunteer, Bay Area Legal Services Volunteer Lawyers Program, 2016-present
- Volunteer, Hillsborough County Bar Association’s Wills for Heroes, December 2015-present
EDUCATION:
- University of Florida, Levin College of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2011
- Florida Law Review, Research Editor and Notes and Comments Editor
- Florida Blue Key
- Volunteer, Three Rivers Legal Services, Pro Se Family Law Clinic
- University of Florida, Warrington College of Business Administration, B.S.B.A., Finance, 2008
- Warrington Finance Scholar
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