Douglas Wayne Taylor

Douglas W. "Doug" Taylor, Sr., Esq., is a 1998 magna cum laude graduate of the University of Arizona, having earned a Bachelor of Arts degree (B.A.) in Political Science, with a thematic Pre-Law minor. Mr. Taylor graduated cum laude earning a Juris Doctor degree (J.D.) from the Seattle University School of Law in Seattle, Washington, in 2001. He attended his third year of law school at the University of Arizona’s James E. Rogers College of Law from 2000-2001. Mr. Taylor is a proud long-time member of both the Arizona State Bar and the Pima County Bar Association.

Mr. Taylor began his legal career at Barton & Storts, P.C.. While there he worked on defending people charged with major crimes, including First Degree Murder, and Sexually Violent Predators (SVP).

For 17 years thereafter, Mr. Taylor was the owner and sole practitioner at the Law Office of Douglas W. Taylor. Mr. Taylor focused his law practice primarily on representing people charged with felony and misdemeanor criminal offenses, Domestic Violence, DUIs criminal appeals, criminal post-conviction relief, juvenile delinquency matters, bond forfeitures, foreign extradition warrants and some personal injury and other civil matters. He has successfully represented thousands of defendants in just about every type of criminal case imaginable, including serious and aggravated felonies (such as homicide, sexual offenses, armed robbery, aggravated assault, armed burglary, and kidnapping), other felonies (such as aggravated DUI, white collar crimes, theft, drug possession, drug manufacture, and drug transportation offenses, fraudulent schemes and artifices, and prohibited weapons possession cases), and misdemeanors (including DUI’s, theft, prostitution, assault, disorderly conduct, driving on a suspended license, and Domestic Violence cases). He has also successfully handled over 100 restoration of civil rights after criminal conviction cases. And, he has successfully handled a number of civil matters, including personal injury, auto accident, and contract cases.

Mr. Taylor is a very experienced, skilled, compassionate criminal defense attorney. He has successfully handled more than 80 criminal jury trials as lead defense counsel. He has successfully handled more than 500 criminal bench trials, successfully handled more than 500 criminal evidentiary hearings, and successfully handled thousands of other plenary criminal hearings. In all, Mr. Taylor has successfully represented thousands of criminal defendants as chief defense counsel. He has succesfully handled criminal cases from the most minor to the most serious, including murder/homicide cases. 

In 2018, Mr. Taylor was elected as a Pima County Justice of the Peace (Judge) of the Pima County Justice Court. He retired from that honored post in 2022. On the bench as a county judge, Mr. Taylor presided over thousands of DUI, misdemeanor criminal, domestic violence, evictions, civil, and small claims matters, and was always delighted to have the honor of marrying couples in love.

From 2022-2023, Mr. Taylor was the managing attorney for Suzuki Law Offices in Tucson. There he supervised and guided other attorneys, and represented clients accused of crimes ranging from DUI and Domestic Violence to Second Degree Murder and Frudulent Schemes and Artifices and much more. 

Mr. Taylor is now the proud Owner and Managing Attorney of Taylor Law Group, PLLC, at 271 North Stone Avenue in Tucson, AZ, where he will use all of his legal education, experience, skill, and wisdom to obtain the best possible outcome for you! CALL RIGHT AWAY! Or email him 24 hours a day for help: taylorlawgroup at hotmail dot com