About Beth Taylor
Beth Taylor was a senior editor for Super Lawyers for more than 20 years, and has won dozens of awards for headline-writing and editing throughout her career. Previously, she was an editor and covered courts for The Orlando Sentinel. She also worked for go2net and KIRO-TV in Seattle, where she wrote for and edited their websites. In addition, Beth edited The Kitsap Business Journal and Media Inc. Beth has written travel books, including Around Seattle With Kids for Fodor’s and Seattle Day By Day for Frommer’s, and online travel guides for Google. Her travel writing has appeared in publications including the Chicago Tribune and the San Francisco Chronicle. Beth has a B.A. in communications/journalism and a master’s degree in political science.
Articles written by Beth Taylor
Rolling Art
Stan Beck has been collecting and racing cars since he was 12Stan Beck bought his first car before he could drive: a pea-green 1950 Ford sedan, which he bought with $50 he’d earned from his newspaper route. He was 12. It needed work. “I was going to make sure it was running by the time it was legal to drive,” Beck says with a laugh. Thus began a lifetime of collecting, racing and tinkering with cars. “According my mother, the first word I said was ‘car,’” he says. He started buying “real cars” and racing them at 17, financed by his …
Discrimination Suit Can Proceed Against Contra Costa DA's Office
San Francisco firms Nichols Law and Ratner Molineaux are representing 5 women deputy DAsA federal court in San Francisco has given the go-ahead to a discrimination suit filed by five female DAs against the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office. “The women are alleging, in essence, that they have been discriminated against by the DA’s office because of their sex, and—in the case of the [four] women over 40—because of their age,” says Sarah Nichols, an employment & labor attorney whose firm, Nichols Law in San Francisco, is handling the suit, along with …
Police Killing Leads to Changes in Columbus, Ohio
Dayton attorney Michael Wright and team negotiated a $10 million settlementAndre Hill, a 47-year-old resident of Columbus, Ohio, was walking out of the garage of a Northwest Columbus house on Dec. 22, 2020, unarmed and holding his cell phone, when he was shot and killed by a Columbus police officer. A neighbor had placed a non-emergency call, asking police to check out a car that they didn’t recognize being turned on and off. “Mr. Hill's vehicle was having problems being started,” says plaintiff’s personal injury attorney Michael Wright, with Wright & …
Florida Adoption Law: Options for Families
The COVID-19 pandemic left its mark in many ways, and that is true even when it comes to adopting a child. “Births globally are decreasing,” explains Erica Tate Healey, a board-certified adoption attorney at Tate Healey Webster in Tampa, Florida. “A lot of agencies aren't accepting new families right now, as there is a surplus of families that would like to adopt.” That situation could change, and it doesn’t mean anyone should give up on adoption; it just might take longer. Or …
Woman Settles With State of Washington Over Foster Abuse
She was assaulted for many years by the man in whose care she was placedA 48-year-old woman and her daughters received a $16.5 million settlement from the state of Washington over years of sexual and other abuse by a man with whom the woman was placed in foster care at age 8. State social workers ignored many red flags that should have alerted them to possible abuse, say Nathan P. Roberts and Evan Fuller, plaintiff’s personal injury attorneys at Connelly Law Offices in Tacoma, Washington, who handled the case. When the woman was placed in the foster home as a …
Pagliacci Pizza Settles Class Action With Drivers
Terrell Marshall Law Group negotiated $3.75 million settlementPagliacci Pizza has agreed to a $3.75 million settlement in a class action filed by current and former drivers over allegations involving tips, delivery fees, mileage reimbursements and breaks. Former Pagliacci driver Steven Burnett and more than 1,000 drivers were represented by plaintiff’s class action attorney Toby Marshall at Terrell Marshall Law Group, along with firm colleagues Blythe Chandler, a class action attorney, and employment litigator Erika Nusser. The drivers claimed that the …
Dominion Voting Systems Employee Sues Trump Supporters for Defamation
Texas lawyer Steve Skarnulis says his client is in hiding after death threatsEric Coomer says his life has never been the same since Trump supporters accused the Dominion Voting Systems security director of rigging the 2020 presidential election, prompting death threats that drove him into hiding. He has filed a defamation suit, which is being handled by business litigator Steve Skarnulis at Cain & Skarnulis in Austin, Texas. Defendants include the Trump campaign, Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, columnist Michelle Malkin, conservative activist Joseph Oltmann, and …
250 Films of Quarantine
Seattle attorney and cinephile Bob Cumbow shares his movie listBob Cumbow is a partner at the Seattle office of Miller Nash Graham & Dunn, where he focuses on trademark and copyright law. He also knows what he’s talking about when it comes to the art of film, having written books and articles on film for 50 years, taught film at Seattle University, and frequently lectured with the Seattle International Film Festival’s film education program. Over the past year, the intellectual property attorney has kept track of the films he watched during …
M.D. J.D.
Dr. Bradley I. Kramer sides with patients in med-mal casesBradley I. Kramer, a medical malpractice plaintiff’s attorney, wants you to know he has the utmost respect for the people he sues. “It doesn’t make me feel warm and fuzzy going after doctors who spend their whole lives trying to help people,” he says. “But as in any field, there’s going to be good and bad.” Kramer’s father is even a doctor—“still practicing at 78 years old,” he says—and it doesn’t hit closer to home than that. Except with Kramer, who was once a doctor …
Legal Community Mourns Legendary Pensacola Attorney Fred Levin
Attorney with ‘the heart of a champion’ led groundbreaking case against big tobaccoLegendary Pensacola personal injury attorney Fredric Levin, who in the 1990s led the way to a $13 billion settlement for the state of Florida against the tobacco industry, passed away at age 83 on Jan. 12, due to complications from COVID-19. “We have lost a partner, a mentor, a brother in arms and, most importantly, a dear friend,” says personal injury attorney Mark Proctor, president of Levin Papantonio. Proctor came on board in 1981, 20 years after Levin joined the firm founded by brother …
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