Taylor Porter

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Helping insurance policyholders fight for the coverage they are entitled to is the focus of Taylor Porter’s practice. As an associate at Shernoff Bidart Echeverria LLP, Mr. Porter’s diverse litigation experience provides valuable support and insight for successful insurance bad faith and personal injury claims.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Porter gained valuable litigation experience in matters of construction, employment discrimination, wage and hour, data privacy, and business disputes, as well as personal injury defense. He handled a variety of litigation work product, including drafting pleadings, discovery requests and responses, and other motions. The litigation matters he worked on include construction, employment discrimination, wage and hour, and business disputes, as well as personal injury defense.

While earning his law degree at Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law, Mr. Porter served as a research assistant, researching and drafting a moot court problem for the Armand Arabian Moot Court Competition. He also worked as a legal research and writing teaching assistant helping international students pursuing their legal master’s degrees with legal research and writing. In addition, Mr. Porter served as a Pepperdine Law Review Editorial Board member and vice president of the J. Reuben Clark Society.

Fluent in Spanish, Mr. Porter spent two years in Sinaloa, Mexico on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He is a Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and Arizona Cardinals fan. When not in the office, he enjoys spending time with his wife and kids.

Since joining the firm in 2022, Mr. Porter has worked on several high-profile cases resulting in favorable outcomes, including:

• $27 million arbitration award on behalf of a school district in an action for breach of contract
• $6 million settlement of an insurance bad faith action arising from an insurer’s refusal to cover the loss of a family home
• $4 million settlement of an insurance bad faith action arising from an insurer’s mishandling of a fire loss claim
• $3.85 million settlement of an insurance bad faith action arising from an insurer’s mishandling of a fire loss claim
• $1.75 million settlement for personal injuries sustain by a pedestrian hit by a fire truck
• $940,000 in settlements for personal injuries sustained by a driver rear-ended on the freeway
• $800,000 settlement of an insurance bad faith action arising from a life insurance company’s delay in paying policy benefits

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION AND MEMBERSHIPS

• Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (CAALA)
• Consumer Attorneys of California (CAOC)
• Consumer Attorneys of the Inland Empire (CAOIE)
• Los Angeles County Bar Association

PUBLISHED ARTICLES

The “how to” for motions to compel

EDUCATION

• Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law, J.D., cum laude
• Southern Utah University, B.S., Political Science, magna cum laude, Dean’s List, Student of the Year for the Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice

BAR ADMISSIONS

• California
• United States District Court, Eastern District of California
• United States District Court, Central District of California
• United States District Court, Northern District of California
• United States District Court, Southern District of California

AREAS OF PRACTICE

• Insurance Bad Faith