EDWARD M. TAYLOR, ESQ.

Mr. Taylor has been providing legal representation to community associations throughout Long Island for over twenty years.

Mr. Taylor is a frequent lecturer on community association law and has written numerous articles on the subject. He is a founding member of the Long Island Chapter of the Community Associations Institute (CAI) and served as President of the Chapter for its first two years. For his efforts in founding the Chapter, he was awarded the 2006 CAI Award of Excellence in Chapter Leadership.

Mr. Taylor was recently named a fellow of the College of Community Association Lawyers (CCAL) – one of fewer than 150 attorneys nationwide to be admitted to this prestigious organization. He is also a member of CAI’s NYS Legislative Action Committee and its Government and Public Affairs Committee. He has served as an adjunct professor at Touro Law Center where he taught a course entitled Condominium, Co-op and Homeowners Association Law.

Mr. Taylor is a graduate of Grinnell College (B.A. with honors), the University of Michigan’s Institute of Public Policy Studies (M.P.P.) and the Touro Law Center (J.D. magna cum laude). He is a member of the Suffolk County Bar Association, the SCBA Real Property Committee, the New York State Bar Association and the NYSBA Real Property Committee and Sub-Committee on Condominiums and Co-ops.

He is admitted to practice law in New York State and the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York. Mr. Taylor is also a member of the Touro Law Center Alumni Council and a member and past President of the Greater Smithtown Chamber of Commerce.