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G. Flint Taylor
Attorney
G. Flint Taylor, Jr. is a graduate of Brown University and Northwestern University School of Law and a founding partner of the People’s Law Office. Among the landmark cases that Mr. Taylor has litigated are the Fred Hampton Black Panther case, the Greensboro, North Carolina case against the Ku Klux Klan and Nazis, the Ford Heights Four case in which four innocent men received a record $36 million settlement for their wrongful conviction and imprisonment, and a series of cases arising from a pattern and practice of police torture and cover-up by Jon Burge, Mayor Richard Daley, State’s Attorney Devine, and numerous other police and government officials. Mr. Taylor has successfully argued the cases of Cleavinger v. Saxner and Buckley v. Fitzsimmons before the United States Supreme Court. He has also obtained multi-million dollar settlements for former death row inmate Ronald Jones, who was exonerated after DNA tests established his innocence, and for a seven year old boy who was falsely accused of the murder of 11 year old Ryan Harris by the Chicago Police. He has also represented numerous other exonerated inmates who spent decades in prison and on death row, including several who were convicted on the basis of false confessions that were tortured from them. Mr. Taylor is a founding editor of the Police Misconduct and Civil Rights Law Reporter, and was named by Chicago Magazine as one of Chicagos 30 Toughest Lawyers.”