Taylor T. Lankford

• Defending the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (“Freddie Mac”) in litigation concerning the Third Amendment to Freddie Mac’s Stock Purchase Agreement with the Department of Treasury.
• Successfully represented engineering, procurement, and construction company in mediation to recover insurance for loss related to property damage at a construction project.
• Alvarez v. The Johns Hopkins University, et al. (D. Md. 2019) represented Bristol Myers Squibb in litigation seeking to hold it and other defendants liable for medical research experiments conducted in Guatemala between 1946 and 1948. Successfully obtained voluntary dismissal with prejudice for BMS
• Defended Moldovan investors and companies in a civil RICO action, successfully obtaining dismissal. https://www.law360.com/articles/1144919/kazakhstan-loses-ill-advised-suit-over-506m-award; https://www.law360.com/articles/1266820/full-dc-circ-won-t-revisit-axing-rico-suit-over-506m-award
• Successfully defended Freddie Mac in a lawsuit brought by a shareholder seeking to inspect Freddie Mac’s records. Pagliara v. Fed. Home Loan Mortg. Corp., No. 16-cv-337, 2016 WL 4441978 (E.D. Va. Aug. 23, 2016), http://www.law360.com/articles/831891/shareholder-can-t-inspect-freddie-mac-records-judge-says.
• Successfully defended Freddie Mac in a contract dispute in Meridian Investments, Inc. v. Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, No. 1:15-CV-1463-JCC, 2016 WL 795454 (E.D. Va. Mar. 1, 2016), aff’d, 855 F.3d 573 (4th Cir. 2017).
• Defended Google in Baldino’s Lock & Key Serv., Inc. v. Google Inc., 88 F. Supp. 3d 543, 545 (E.D. Va.), aff’d, 624 F. App’x 81 (4th Cir. 2015), successfully obtaining dismissal of Lanham Act and Civil RICO claims.
• Represented the Hospice Foundation in Hospice Foundation of America v. The New Hope Foundation, Inc., 14-cv-00064 (E.D. Va. 2014), securing settlement to protect the Hospice Foundation’s trademarks.
• Represented Beazer Homes and Crossmann in Crossmann Communities of North Carolina, Inc. v. Harleysville Mut. Ins. Co., No. 09-cv-1379, 2013 WL 5437712 (D.S.C. Sept. 27, 2013), securing defense and indemnity and winning attorneys’ fees for the insurance litigation.

Taylor Lankford specializes in complex and bespoke commercial litigation and representing policyholders in insurance recovery efforts.

A member of our Business Litigation Practice Group, Taylor represents both plaintiffs and defendants, working diligently to help clients resolve their most difficult legal issues.  Taylor's commercial litigation practice spans a range of substantive areas, including contract disputes, business torts, constitutional issues, and regulatory matters involving the government.  In his insurance practice, he represents policyholders in litigation and arbitration of disputes involving first- and third-party insurance claims.