Susan G. Taylor

Partner

“Fighting every day to provide equal access to justice for our clients is what makes this job so rewarding.”

Office

San Diego
T: (619) 231-1058

Susan Taylor has served as a Special Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of California, where she obtained considerable trial experience.

Susan Goss Taylor graduated from Pennsylvania State University in 1994 with a double major in International Politics and Russian. Ms. Taylor earned her Juris Doctor degree from The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law in 1997. While in law school, Ms. Taylor was a member of the Moot Court team and was a student attorney in the D.C. Law Students in Court Program, where she was responsible for defending juveniles and indigent adults in criminal proceedings. Ms. Taylor was admitted to the Bar in California in 1997.

Ms. Taylor has served as a Special Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of California, where she obtained considerable trial experience prosecuting drug smuggling and alien smuggling cases.

Ms. Taylor entered private practice in 1999, initially focusing on antitrust and consumer fraud class actions. Ms. Taylor has served as counsel on the Microsoft, DRAM and Private Equity antitrust litigation teams, as well as on a number of consumer actions alleging false and misleading advertising and unfair business practices against major corporations such as General Motors, Saturn, Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC, BMG Direct Marketing, Inc., and Ameriquest Mortgage Company. As a partner with Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, Ms. Taylor has also been responsible for prosecuting securities fraud class actions and has obtained recoveries for investors in litigation involving WorldCom, Qwest and AOL Time Warner.

Professional Affiliations

California Bar Association, Member

San Diego County Bar Association, Member

Consumer Attorneys of California, Member

Consumer Attorneys of San Diego, Member

Lawyer’s Club, Member

San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program, Board of Directors

Community/Civic Activities

  • Junior League of San Diego, Member
  • Girls Think Tank, Founding Member and currently serving on its Advisory Board

Education

The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, J.D., 1997

  • Member, Moot Court team
  • Student attorney in the D.C. Law Students in Court Program

Pennsylvania State University, 1994

  • Double major in International Politics and Russian

Admissions

  • California
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit 
  • United States District Courts for the Northern, Central and Southern Districts of California
  • United States District Court for the District of Colorado