Ursula Taylor's practice focuses on reinsurance and general commercial litigation. In the insurance and reinsurance areas, Ursula has experience litigating bad faith allegations, duty to defend issues, obligations to follow settlements, access to records and notice issues. Ursula also has experience representing and counseling clients with respect to the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), conspiracy claims, fraud allegations and contract and quasi-contractual theories of recovery.
Before joining Butler Rubin in 2007, Ursula was a litigation associate in the Chicago office of Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz. While at Vedder, she was involved in all aspects of complex commercial litigation, including distributorship disputes, construction law, employment law, bankruptcy litigation and complex contract disputes.
Bar Admissions
Ursula is admitted to practice in Illinois and before the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Articles
Strategic Considerations for Motions to Dismiss: To File or Not to File? Corporate Counsel, July 2010What Controversy? - Calculating Amount in Controversy for Petitions to Confirm or Vacate Arbitration Awards, Corporate Counsel, April 2008
Education
J.D., cum laude, Northwestern University School of Law, 2005
B.A., high distinction, Political Science, University of Michigan, 2002