William L. Taylor
Sideman & Bancroft LLP
Bill Taylor, Esq. is co-founder, Managing Director, and General Counsel for Cyopsis. He leads cybercrime and forensic IT investigations, oversees electronic discovery efforts, acts as the forensic IT team lead for critical incident response in the wake of data breaches, and serves as legal counsel for Cyopsis. He brings to these tasks more than 20 years of combined law practice and investigative experience, in service to individuals, businesses, and organizations large and small, from federal government agencies to Fortune 500 companies.
In six years of private practice at national and regional law firms in Washington, D.C. and Denver, Colorado, Mr. Taylor specialized in representations of individuals and corporations in federal grand jury investigations, parallel civil and criminal proceedings, and criminal trials, complex commercial litigation, government contracts litigation, and data security and privacy matters. In more than 11 years as a state and federal prosecutor, and after that as a criminal defense attorney, Mr. Taylor conducted more than 70 jury trials and many court trials. He brings to digital forensic and cybercrime investigations the perspective of a criminal trial attorney, with experience on both sides of the aisle. He has prosecuted and defended individuals charged with a large variety of violations of state and federal law, including mail, wire, securities, health care, passport and bankruptcy fraud, embezzlement, money laundering, racketeering, and computer crimes.
In 2008, Mr. Taylor led the defense team in winning an acquittal in U.S. District Court for a federal agent charged with violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Mr. Taylor served as Chief of the Major Crimes Section for the United States Attorney's Office, District of Colorado. Mr. Taylor also served as the office's Criminal Health Care Fraud Coordinator, and served as counsel to a task force of state and federal agencies investigating emerging transnational criminal organizations engaged in complex frauds, money laundering, and cybercrime. Mr. Taylor briefed and argued cases before the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, in addition to his work as a trial attorney, and as a supervisory Assistant United States Attorney.
For nearly three years in private law practice prior to founding Cyopsis, Mr. Taylor focused on data security, privacy, and investigation of and defense against cybercrimes. He advised companies on data breach response, investigations of computer misuse and malicious intrusion, and compliance with a wide variety of data security and privacy statutes, including HIPAA, FERPA, ECPA, GLB, and the multiplicity of state data breach notification statutes.
Mr. Taylor served as national class action defense counsel for a Fortune 500 company in connection with a large-scale data breach, represented individuals and media organizations in quashing legal process for confidential records and testimony, and acted as plaintiff's counsel in collecting damages from companies for violating clients' privacy rights and for deceptive trade practices related to privacy of their records. Mr. Taylor worked as a criminal defense investigator prior to finishing law school, and trained as a prisoner-of-war interrogator at the U.S. Army Intelligence Center and School.
Mr. Taylor graduated in 1991 from the Columbia University School of Law, where he earned distinction as a Harlan Fiske Stone scholar. He received his B.A., with distinction, from the University of Colorado in 1986. Mr. Taylor was an honors graduate of the basic and advanced Russian programs at the United States Department of Defense Language Institute in 1982 and 1983, where he won the Commandant's Award as the Outstanding Graduate. Department of Defense Language Institute in 1982 and 1983, where he won the Commandant's Award as the Outstanding Graduate.
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