Taylor and Associates P.L.L.C.

About us

Workers' Compensation & Social Security Disability Attorneys

Our firm's main focus is to represent workers who are hurt on the job, assisting them with all claims that may result from their injuries. When you retain our firm, there is no need to hunt for separate workers' compensation, personal injury or Social Security Disability law firms in Arizona — we provide full representation for injured workers.

The attorneys at Taylor and Associates have been recognized for their expertise and experience. Five of our workers' compensation attorneys — including founding attorney Richard Taylor — have been recognized in the Best Lawyers in America, and our firm has been rated #1 in Arizona for workers' compensation by The Best Lawyers Guide.

We know there are other firms and attorneys who can represent injured and disabled workers, but we believe two concepts established over more than 35 years set our firm apart from others.

First, we truly care about our clients, they aren’t just people we make money from. Many of our clients become friends over the years because we treat them as we would want to be treated if we were injured or disabled. A substantial number of our new clients are referred by existing clients, not just because we won their case, but because of the way they were treated by everyone in the firm from the receptionist to legal assistants to accounting assistants, and, of course, to our attorneys.

Second, we take a long-term view when representing injured and disabled workers instead of just settling quickly to make money. Most significant injuries and disabilities affect our clients for the rest of their lives and we try to protect their rights far into the future by anticipating future problems as well as being here to help if problems occur.

Website link:
http://www.injuredworker.com

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Office hours: Monday - Friday: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Year founded: 1975

We specialize in Workers Compensation, Social Security, Personal Injury, Disability, Job Injury

Biography:
Richard Practices in the area of workers' compensation, and has been a certified specialist by the State Bar of Arizona since 1979. He has been recognized as one of the Best Attorneys in Arizona, the Best Lawyers in America, the Top 100 trial Attorneys, Who's Who in the United States, and Who's Who Internationally. He was named the Workers' Compensation Attorney of the Year for 2013 in Arizona. Richard is an Arizona native, born and raised in Phoenix, as a third generation native Arizonan, from a steel worker union family, and attended the University of Arizona in Tucson, and Arizona State University in Tempe, ultimately graduating from Arizona State University law school. He's the managing attorney for the law firm of Taylor & Associates, PLLC. He started the original workers' compensation practice in 1975 after a brief stint with the Industrial Commission of Arizona and the State Compensation Fund.

Since 1997, he has been participating in classic car rallies around the world, including 53 different countries to date. He also established the Mzuzu Academy, a high school in Malawi, Africa, in 2010. Consistent with his compassion with injured workers, Richard is responsible for bringing the cats into the Taylor & Associates office, starting in the late 1970's when he adopted and brought into the office two cats who turned out to be a great hit with the staff and clients, and the rescued cats have grown over the years. You will frequently be greeted by several of the cats in our reception area.

Business History:
Taylor and Associates was founded in 1975 as a workers' compensation law firm in Phoenix, based on the belief that injured workers throughout Arizona should be represented with compassion and integrity. For more than 40 years, we've provided help with claims for workers' compensation, personal injury, and Social Security. Since our inception, Taylor and Associates has grown from two attorneys to thirteen. Our attorneys have represented more the 35,000 clients throughout Arizona, in big cities and small towns.