Vaughan and Linda Taylor - Legal and Paralegal Advisors

Attorney Vaughan E. Taylor is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the University of Virginia School of Law. In 1978 he obtained a Master of Laws equivalent degree from the military’s law school. He served 20 years in the United States Army as a JAGC Officer, in the capacities of Associate Professor of Law, certified Military Judge, Defense Counsel, Prosecutor, and government contracts Legal Review Officer for all Army non-appropriated funds in Europe. While stationed with the Third Infantry Division in Germany, he was the Command Legal Advisor for the Third Brigade, and Officer in Charge of the Aschaffenburg branch legal office. He is a member of the bars of the Supreme Court of the United States; The Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces; the Army, Navy/Marine Corps, and Air Force Courts of Criminal Appeals; and the United States Court of Federal Claims. Since his civilian retirement, he is an inactive member of the North Carolina and Virginia bars, but maintains active membership in the Maine state bar, where he was first admitted in 1972.  His most notable pro bono work has involved decades of seeking the fate and whereabouts of our missing service members from the Vietnam War. He has worked closely with Ross Perot and he traveled to Vietnam as part of a Senate Select Committee for that purpose. He has written and lectured extensively about advocacy, ethics, and mental responsibility. After retiring from the Regular Army, he created the first American law firm dedicated exclusively to the representation of United States service members all over the world. In that private practice, he was the senior partner of the firm and was the lead defense counsel in many significant courts-martial. He also successfully represented service members at medical boards, and did an extensive appellate practice that made positive changes to military law. For thirty years he has been rated by the Martindale-Hubbell law directory as one of America’s “preeminent lawyers.” He and his wife are avid sailing yachtsmen, who have been honored by the United States Coast Guard for saving three men's lives, when their commercial fishing vessel sank after it had been run down by a freighter that did not stop or even report the collision. Linda was the office manager and senior paralegal for twenty years in their Attorneys at Military Law firm. They are excited to be a part of the the GDI team!