Aisha Grant Taylor

Aisha Grant Taylor is a senior associate practicing in workers' compensation defense and employment law.  Aisha regularly appears before the S.C. Workers' Compensation Commission and the S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce on both hearing and appellate matters.  She has developed particular experience in the defense of workers' compensation based in retaliatory discharge claims as well as EEOC discrimination claims.   Aisha is a member of the South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys' Association, the Society for Human Resource Management and the South Carolina Risk and Insurance Management Society.

Prior to joining Collins & Lacy in 2007, Aisha served as a judicial law clerk for The Honorable Brooks P. Goldsmith of South Carolina’s Sixth Judicial Circuit Court.  Aisha graduated from the University of South Carolina School of Law, where she received the CALI Award for Race, Education and the Constitution in 2005.  Aisha completed her undergraduate work at the University of South Carolina as well where she was a captain of the 2002 NCAA National Championship Women’s Track & Field Team and a four-year SEC Scholar Athlete.

Read our newsletters for the latest information and updates on legal issues related to the practice of Workers' Compensation, Employment and Insurance law in South Carolina. 

Practice Focus/Trial Experience

• Workers' Compensation: regularly appears before the South Carolina Workers' Compensation Commission on both hearing and appellate matters. She has developed particular experience in physical brain damage and paraplegic / quadriplegic  cases.  She also is experienced in defense of self-insured and uninsured employers and workers’ compensation insurance carriers.    
• Employment/Labor Law: experience in representing clients regularly before the South Carolina Employment Commission, state courts and federal district courts.  In addition to litigation, Aisha works with clients in document preparation and addressing ways to minimize employment risk.

Professional, Civic and Community Involvement

• South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys' Association
  • Workers' Compensation Committee (2011) 
• South Carolina Workers' Compensation Educational Association
• South Carolina Risk and Insurance Management Society (SC RIMS)
• South Carolina Self Insurers Association
• Society of Human Resource Management 
• Defense Research Institute
• International Society of Primerus Law Firms 
• Guardian Ad Litem, Richland County CASA
• Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.

Papers, Presentations and Publications

• Can You State That to a Reasonable Degree of Medical Certainty?, South Carolina Workers' Compensation Law Blog, December 2011
• Employment Law Seminar, South Carolina Workers' Compensation Educational Association Conference, October 2011
• Workers' Compensation: Important Things to Remember About Third Party Actions, SC Workers' Compensation Law Blog, May 6, 2011
• The Impact of Diabetes & Other Obesity-Related Diseases on Workers' Compensation Claims, SC Workers' Compensation Law Blog, May 2, 2011  
• "Meet My New Friend,  GINA", South Carolina Lawyer, February, 2010 
• "Workers' Compensation 101," South Carolina Independent Insurance Agents, November 4, 2008
• "The Aging Workforce," Palmetto RIMS Meeting, October 8, 2008

Speaking Engagements

• Collins & Lacy Attorneys Jack Griffeth, Christian Boesl and Aisha Taylor to Present at 35th Annual South Carolina Workers' Compensation Educational Association, October 17, 2011
• Collins & Lacy Attorneys to Speak at 47th Annual South Carolina Home Builders Association, July 14, 2011
• Save the Date! Is Your Company Passing the Test?, February 2011, Workplace Drug Testing
• Collins & Lacy Attorney Aisha G. Taylor to Provide Workers' Compensation Law Update, November 12, 2010
• Free Seminar Series: How to Avoid the Pitfalls of Litigation: Tips to Keep Your Company out of Court, July 29, 2010
• South Carolina Public Risk and Insurance Management:"GINA WHO? Red Flags & Other Hurricane Warnings of Privacy Issues", February 28, 2010, Charleston, SC