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Mailing Address
Post Office Box 7068
Wilmington, North Carolina
28406-7068




Ryal W. Tayloe


Mr. Tayloe is leader of the Construction Practice Group. He has handled a wide range of litigation cases over the past 28 years in state and federal courts, many of them jury trials. Mr. Tayloe has extensive experience with lien law, federal and state bond claims, and defective workmanship cases. He also has significant experience with title insurance claims, agribusiness litigation, and all types of real estate disputes, including trespass, adverse possession, easement rights, and wrongful timber cutting. Mr. Tayloe has been rated by his peers as being "preeminent" in his fields of law.

Practice Groups
Construction
Litigation
Real Estate Development
Agribusiness

Practice Concentration
Business and Commercial Litigation
Contract Litigation
Construction Litigation
Real Estate Litigation

Admitted to Practice
North Carolina, 1982
All state courts in North Carolina
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

United States Supreme Court


Honors and Distinctions*
The Best Lawyers in America, 2009-2010

Education
J.D., Wake Forest School of Law, 1982
A.B., The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1979

Professional and Community Affiliations
American Bar Association — Section: Litigation

North Carolina Bar Association — Sections: Construction Law; Litigation


Publications

Agribusiness

Construction

The Government Takes Your Property Because You Won't Sell:  What is the "Just Compensation" the Government Must Pay?

Litigation
Contract Danger Zones - A Lesson in Reading the Fine Print

Real Estate Development

The Government Takes Your Property Because You Won't Sell: What is the "Just Compensation" the Government Must Pay?

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