Anthony D. Taibi
1930 - 101 Eyrie Court
Raleigh, North Carolina 27606
(919) 852-0626
www.tonytaibi.com

EDUCATION

Duke University School of Law, Durham, North Carolina.
	J.D. Degree with Highest Honors, May 1990. First in Class (Willis Smith Award); Order of the Coif. Article Editor, Duke Law Journal. Most Effective Advocate Award for Trial Practice; Moot Court Board.
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.
	James Madison College (Urban and Community Policy), B.A. Degree, June 1984. Dean’s List.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Partner	1999 - Present
Couch & Taibi, and prior iterations, Durham, North Carolina. Responsible for the development, prosecution and trial of numerous commercial, malpractice, unfair trade practice, consumer and ersonal injury cases. Implemented class action and mass consumer torts initiatives.
Associate Attorney	1997 - 1999
Bode, Call & Stroupe, L.L.P., Raleigh, North Carolina. Diverse civil litigation, health care, regulatory and administrative law practice.
Project Attorney	1996 - 1997
Twiggs, Beskind, Strickland & Rabenau, P.A., Raleigh, North Carolina. Contract Attorney for special project in procedural analysis for Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee for complex multi-district commercial tort matter.
Associate Attorney	1994 - 1996
Kutak Rock, Atlanta, Georgia. Transactional practice focused on public finance, banking, community development financing, derivative and synthetic securities, and structured finance.
Assistant Professor of Law	1991 - 1994
University of Illinois College of Law, Champaign, Illinois. Courses taught included Civil Procedure, Torts, Contemporary Legal Theory, and Regulatory Law and Policy.
Judicial Clerk	1990 - 1991
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, Baltimore, Maryland. Clerk to the late Judge Francis D. Murnaghan, Jr.

BAR MEMBERSHIPS

The North Carolina State Bar, 1997.
State Bar of Georgia, 1995.

PUBLICATIONS

Law, Economics, and Social Justice: Economics As Discourse and Science vs. The Cult of Laissez Faire, In Progress (draft available at www.tonytaibi.com ).

Constructive Fraud for the Consumer Lawyer, TRIAL BRIEFS11 (December 2007).

“Left” Is Not Another Word for “Hip,” 55 Guild PracTioner 1 (1998).

Racial Justice in the Age of the Global Economy: Community Empowerment and Global Strategy, 44 DUKE LAW JORNAL 928 (1995).

Banking, Finance and Community Economic Empowerment: Structural Economic Theory, Procedural Civil Rights and Substantive Racial Justice , 107 HARVARD LAW REVIEW 1463 (1994).

Environmental Justice, Structural Economic Theory, and Community Economic Empowerment , 9 ST. JOHN'S JOURNAL OF LEGAL COMMENTARY 491 (1994).

Race Consciousness, Communitarianism and Banking Regulation, 1992 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LAW REVIEW1103.

Politics and Due Process: The Rhetoric of Social Security Disability Law, 1990 DUKE LAW JOURNAL 913.

PRESENTATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Coordinating Editor, Consumer Law Issue, TRIAL BRIEFS (December 2007).

Publications Committee, NORTH CAROLINA ACADEMY OF TRIAL LAWYERS (2006-2008).

“Economic Analysis and Critical Race Theory,” Keynote Speaker, Race and the Law for the New Millennium Conference, University of Connecticut School of Law (March 2006).

“Settlement and Your Latino Client,” El Abogado Eficaz: How to Effectively Represent Your Hispanic/Latino Client CLE Program, Raleigh, North Carolina (April 2004).

“CRA: Where To Now?,” AALS Section on Financial Institutions and Consumer Financial Services, Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. (January 2000).

Arbitrator, North Carolina Court-Ordered Arbitration Program, Wake County, North Carolina (1999).

“Admitting Computer Graphics Into Evidence At Trial,” Braxton Craven American Inn of Court Program, Durham, North Carolina (February 1999).

Attorney Advisor, Wade Edwards High School Mock Trial Competition, Raleigh, North Carolina (Fall 1997 and Fall 1998).

“Expert Witness Testimony: The Trial Court's Gatekeeper Role After Daubert,”Evidence For The Trial Lawyer CLE Program, Greensboro, North Carolina (February 1997).

“A Critique of Civil Rights Consciousness,” Duke Law Journal Annual Lecture, Duke University School of Law (November 1994).

“Capitalism, Multiculturalism, and Community Economic Empowerment,” Featured Speaker, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory Monthly Colloquium Series, University of Illinois (March 1994).

“Banking,Democracy and Decentralization: Finance and Community Economic Empowerment,” Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois (May 1993).

Organized, Community Empowerment and Economic Development Conference at University of Illinois College of Law, April 1993. Presented, “Community Economic Empowerment and the Regulation of Financial Institutions.”

“Banking Regulation and Critical Race Theory,” Policy in the Nineties: Critical Networks Conference, Harvard University and Northeastern University Law Schools (April 1992).

Organized, Race Consciousness and Legal Scholarship Conference at University of Illinois College of Law, March 1992. Presented, “Race Consciousness, Communitarianism and Banking Regulation.” Many of the papers presented at the Conference, including mine, appeared in an Illinois Law Review symposium (1992 U. Ill. L. Rev. 942).

Initiated and organized the first Frontiers of Legal Thought Conference and Duke Law Journal Symposium. Many of the papers presented at the conference (January 1990) appeared in a three-issue Duke Law Journal symposium (April, June and September 1990).

 

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