Taylor C. Hoogendoorn represents plaintiffs and defendants in complex litigation.  His recent matters include mass tort, contract, intellectual property, and oilfield operations cases in bankruptcy, federal, and state courts across the country.

Taylor recently joined the firm after clerking for the Honorable Samuel A. Alito, Jr., on the Supreme Court of the United States; the Honorable Gregory G. Katsas on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit; and the Honorable J. Harvie Wilkinson III on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

Taylor holds a law degree from the Yale Law School, where he served as a Senior Editor on the Yale Law Journal, co-President of the Trial Advocacy Team, Executive Vice President of the Yale Law Student Chapter of the Federalist Society, and a student director of the Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic.  As a second-year law student, Taylor and his partner won the Potter Stewart Prize for best overall written and oral advocacy in the moot court finals.

Prior to law school, Taylor graduated as the top-ranked student in Baylor’s Hankamer School of Business, earning a B.B.A. summa cum laude with majors in Economics, Finance, Mathematics, and Business Fellows, as well as a minor in Philosophy.  While at Baylor, Taylor served as the Student Regent on the Baylor Board of Regents and as President of the Baylor Undergraduate Mock Trial Team.  Taylor received the American Mock Trial Association’s All-American Attorney Award in 2015.

A native Chicagoan, Taylor now lives in Houston with his wife, Wimberly Hoogendoorn, and their son, Post.

Not admitted in Texas and practices under the supervision of the partnership of Susman Godfrey L.L.P.