What We Do

Mitigate.
Research.
Educate.

Capital & Non-Capital Mitigation

Dr. Taylor has been leading the team of professionals for nearly two decades. Our network of professionals have extensive experience serving on capital and non-capital matters. We specialize in mitigation and private investigations for state and federal cases as well as juvenile cases—including ones that require gang experts. As court-appointed or privately retained experts, our services adhere to ABA standards and guidelines, jurisdictional rules, and academic best practices.

We engage closely with clients, collateral contacts, lay and expert witnesses, and conduct in-depth record collection, archival, and empirical research. The results are combined to create compelling individualized mitigation evidence and testimony aimed at achieving the best possible outcome for both the client and society.

Communication & Cultural Studies

Dr. Taylor is also a communication studies & cultural studies expert specializing in rhetoric. Communication Studies examines patterns of verbal and non-verbal human communication and behavior. These patterns aim to provide information, persuade, express identity, and share emotional sentiments.

She explores how race, language, context, politics and other sociolegal factors intersect and influence communications acts—such as the outcome of courtroom proceedings, community engagement and public policy directives. Dr. Taylor applies rhetorical methods in combination with other interdisciplinary methodologies to discover implications across legal contexts.

CLE Faculty & Scholar

Dr. Taylor also plays an active role participating as a continuing legal education faculty member, as well as providing education and training to individuals who seek to enhance their competencies in mitigation and advocacy work.

With a passion for elevating the defense community, Dr. Taylor has been invited to participate as a continuing legal education lecturer numerous times for state and national organizations. These include:

  • The National Association for Public Defense
  • Black Public Defenders
  • The Clarence Darrow/David Baldus Death Penalty & Intellectual Disability Track
  • The Texas Criminal Defense Lawyer Association

Through these presentations, Dr. Taylor draws on individual and coauthored research that has been recognized as outstanding scholarship— a 2020 coauthored piece on women of color, sexual harassment, and intersectionality was recognized by the Western Journal of Communication as one of the three most important articles on race in communication studies in the past 20 years.