South Carolina

W. Taylor Lacy
Associate

Taylor Lacy focuses his efforts on catastrophic injury and products liability litigation against diverse corporate defendants. He is responsible for developing legal theories, conducting legal research, and drafting discovery, pleadings and motions. Taylor currently represents families in the Charleston firefighter litigation against the Sofa Super Store, builders and contractors. Additionally, Taylor works with Motley Rice's  Environmental team, assisting individuals and businesses in Gulf Coast communities in their efforts to hold BP and other corporate defendants accountable for the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.

As a member of Motley Rice’s Vehicle Defect team, Taylor litigates on behalf of victims of vehicle incidents caused by design defects, including vehicle rollover, occupant retention component systems. Taylor is also a member of Motley Rice's Transportation team, assisting in legal research and discovery efforts in the firm's aviation cases.

As a law student, Taylor served as student research editor of the A.B.A. Real Property, Trust & Probate Journal, received multiple CALI awards, and was inducted into the Order of the Wig and Robe. He studied comparative law and history at University College, Oxford, and The University of Virginia, and transnational dispute resolution at Gray’s Inn in London. Taylor was a research assistant and student editor for Carolina Distinguished Professor of Law David G. Owen, assisting with the final preparations of Professor Owen’s Products Liability Law treatise. Taylor is a member of the American Association for Justice, American Bar Association, Charleston County Bar Association and South Carolina Association for Justice.