Garrett S. Taylor primarily practices in the areas of civil litigation, business litigation, business organization, health care law, estate planning, and general corporate representation.

Garrett represents clients located throughout Mid-Missouri including business owners, entrepreneurs, startup companies, real estate developers, financial institutions, commercial property owners and physician practices, among others.

Garrett has significant experience in assisting clients with general corporate matters, including corporate formation and maintenance, employment contracts, non-competition agreements, and shareholder agreements. Garrett also devotes much of his practice to litigation, including business disputes, real estate disputes, and other areas of civil litigation. In the course of Garrett’s practice, he has argued cases in front of arbitrators, mediators, Circuit Court and Associate Court judges, juries, and the Court of Appeals.

Garrett enjoys spending time at Mizzou Tiger games with his wife, Dr. Trisha Taylor, and their children, Dylan, Davis, and Olivia. Garrett also enjoys staying active by playing golf, basketball, coaching youth sports teams, hunting, and enjoying the outdoors, in general.

Bar Admissions

  • Missouri, 2002

  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

  • U.S. District Court Western District of Missouri

  • U.S. District Court Eastern District of Missouri

Education

  • University of Missouri Columbia School of Law, Columbia, Missouri, 2002

  • Law Journal: Journal of Dispute Resolution

  • University of Missouri – Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, 1999 B.S., Major: Finance and Banking

Memberships

  • Missouri Bar – Member

  • Boone County Bar Association – Member

Honors

  • “AV Preeminent” rating from Martindale-Hubbell

Representative Cases

  • Hinshaw v. M-C-M Properties, LLC, 450 S.W.3d 823 (Mo. App. W.D. 2014)

  • BURG v. DAMPIER, 346 S.W.3d 343 (Mo.App.W.D. 2011)

  • Symphony Diagnostic Servs. No. 1 Inc. v. Greenbaum , 2016 BL 216016, 8th Cir., No. 15-2294, 7/6/16

  • Kinder v. Calcote, 537 S.W.3d 379 (2018)

  • Franklin Farms, LLC v. North American Auction Company, 554 S.W.3d 497 (2018)

Recognition

  • Read the Find Print – Alabama Supreme Court Rules that Binding Arbitration Provisions in Written Warranties are Okay, Journal of Dispute Resolution, J. Disp. Resol., 165, 2001

  • Be Careful What You Say in Mediation – Indiana Supreme Court Rules That Oral Settlement Agreements Reached in Mediation Must Be in Writing to Be Enforceable, Journal of Dispute Resolution, J. Disp. Resol., 375, 2001