David Taylor is one of the most highly sought after real estate and construction arbitrators and mediators.  He has been selected to serve as a neutral on more than 500 occasions, in more than 15 different states, and is a national trainer for the American Arbitration Association.  He regularly lectures at trial advocacy, ADR, construction, landlord/tenant and real estate seminars in Tennessee and at national seminars.  As a partner in the firm of Boult Cummings, Conners & Berry, he heads up the firm's construction and ADR work groups, and his advocacy practice consists primarily of construction, real estate and other commercial litigation.  

David is a proud founder of the Tennessee Bar Association's Dispute Resolution Section more than 10 years ago, and served  as the Section's Chair for 2007-08.  Presently he is serving as the TBA Construction Section Chair.  He was also was a founding member of the Tennessee Supreme Court ADR Commission which set up Rule 31. He authored the primary article for the April 2000 Tennessee Bar Journal, entitled "Drafting Dispute Resolution Clauses" and the article "Mediation and Arbitration" for the August 2003 Journal of the Business and Economic Center.  David is a frequent contributor to the Nashville Business Journal. 

He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America® 2007 for his construction law and alternative dispute resolution practices and the Nashville Business Journal’s  Best of the Bar for construction (2006) and litigation (2007).  He is a member of the Nashville, Tennessee and American (Member, Arbitration and Construction Law Forum) Bar Associations.  

David graduated from Davidson College and from the University of Alabama School of Law, and has been with his firm since 1984.  He is married and his hobbies primarily include cheering on his two daughters, one of whom now attends the University of Virginia.  He is very active in the community, and founded the "Dad's Network" at his daughters' high school.