Founded in 1912, Taylor Porter has provided 109 years of community service to more than 100 nonprofit organizations and leadership agencies across the state of Louisiana. Whether serving on the boards of directors of nonprofit organizations or making contributions of time and treasure to worthwhile causes, our employees make significant contributions to the communities in which they live and work, and Taylor Porter has embraced the role of “corporate citizen” and continued a strong tradition of community service.

Below is a list of the community and professional organizations that our Firm has impacted through donations, volunteerism, and board leadership positions:

• Alzheimer’s Services of the Capital Area

• American Bar Association, Rebecca Hinton – Taxation Section Committee Member​

• American Board of Trial Advocates​

• American Liver Foundation

• American Red Cross, Capital Area Chapter​, Ryan French – Board Vice-Chair

• The ARC of Louisiana

• Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge

• Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) Louisiana, Caroline Darwin - Board Member (Young ACG)

• Baton Rouge Area Chamber (BRAC)​, Bob Barton – Economic Development Committee​; Skip Philips - Board Member; Rebecca Hinton - Leadership Baton Rouge, Class of 2021

• Baton Rouge Area Foundation (BRAF)​, Mary Hester, John McDermott – Professional Advisors Council

• Baton Rouge Bar Association​, Amy Lambert – Immediate Past President, Executive Committee Member; Trey Tumminello – Belly Up with the Bar Committee, Former Chair​

  • ​​Former Taylor Porter Attorneys Who Served as BRBA Presidents - Benjamin B. Taylor (1931)​; C. Vernon Porter (1932)​; Laurance W. Brooks (1950)​; Charles W. Phillips (1961)​; B. B. Taylor, Jr. (1967); Frank W. Middleton, Jr. (1974); Gerald L. Walter, Jr. (1977)​; W. Shelby McKenzie (1983)​; Eugene R. Groves (1997)​; Gregory E. Bodin (2005)​; Preston J. Castille, Jr. (2011)​; Michael S. Walsh (2013)

• Baton Rouge Bar Foundation Pro Bono Project​, Barrye Miyagi – Member of Pro Bono Project​

• Baton Rouge Blues Foundation​, Anne Crochet – Member of Board and Executive Committee

• Baton Rouge Country Club, Brett Furr – General Counsel and Ex-Officio Executive Committee Member

• Baton Rouge Green​, Tom Easterly – Board Member, President

• Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra​, Debbie Lamb – Marketing, Executive Committee, and Board Member​; Blue Loupe – Treasurer and Board Member

• Better Business Bureau of South Central Louisiana

• Boys & Girls Club of Greater Baton Rouge​, John McDermott - Board of Governors Chair, Trustee

• Boy Scouts of America, Istrouma Area Council​, Tom Easterly – Board Member; John Murrill – Immediate Past President, Board Member​; Mike Walsh – Board Member

• The Bridge Center

• Cadets of the Ole War Skule​, Skip Philips – Board Member, Past President

• Capital Area United Way

• Capital Area CASA​, Robin Toups – Former Board Member​; Debbie Lamb – Former Board Chair

• Center for Emotional Healing, Rebecca Hinton, Director

• City Club of Baton Rouge, Anne Crochet - Board of Governors and Chair of Board's Membership Services Committee; Jim Ellis, Former President; Clayton Johnson, Former President; one of the firm’s original founders, Charles Porter, in 1958, City Club’s first President

• City Year Baton Rouge​, Blue Loupe – Junior Board Member, Gala Host Committee Organizer

• The Committee of 100 for Economic Development, Inc., Skip Philips, Member

• Crime Stoppers of Greater Baton Rouge

• Cristo Rey Baton Rouge Franciscan High School, Skip Philips – Board Chair

• Cystic Fibrosis Foundation - Baton Rouge Chapter, Coulter McMahen - Capital City's Finest Honoree and Fundraiser

• Dialogue on Race Louisiana, Barrye Miyagi and Vicki Crochet - Class Graduates

• Emerge Center​, Vicki Crochet – Board Member

• Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana​

• Episcopal High School​, John Stone Campbell – Board of Trustees

• Estate and Business Planning Council of Baton Rouge​, Rebecca Hinton – President and Board Member

• Federal Bar Association, Baton Rouge Chapter​, John Parker - Past President

• First Presbyterian Church​, Brett Furr – Trustee and Elder; Lloyd Lunceford - Governing Board

• First United Methodist Church of Baton Rouge, Katie Goodson – Board Member, HYPE After School Program; Amy Groves Lowe – Church Council Member

• Foundation for Historical Louisiana (Preserve Louisiana)​, Kiki Bergeron – Former Board Member

• Friends of Magnolia Mound Plantation, Inc.​, Nancy Dougherty – Board Member, Immediate Past Chair

• Gaitway Therapeutic Horsemanship​, Marc Whitfield – Board Member

• Girl Scouts Louisiana East

• Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank​, Eddie Hughes – Former Board Chair

• Habitat for Humanity

• Heritage Ranch Christian Children's Home

• Hope Ministries, Bob Barton – Board Chair

• IDEA Public Schools Louisiana​

• Junior Achievement of Greater Baton Rouge

• Junior League of Baton Rouge​, Nancy Dougherty – Sustaining Advisor​; Amy Groves Lowe – Past President and Sustaining Advisor; Caroline Darwin - Member

• Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation - Baton Rouge​

• Keep Louisiana Beautiful​, Tom Easterly – Board Member, Love The Boot Committee Chair

• Kiwanis Baton Rouge

• Leukemia and Lymphoma Society​, Katie Goodson – Executive Committee

• Louisiana Appleseed​

• Louisiana Association of Business & Industry (LABI)​, Bob Barton, Board Member; Eddie Hughes - Energy Committee; Skip Philips – Civil Justice Reform Council; Ryan French - Legal Advisory Council; Coulter McMahen - Emerging Leaders Council and Legal Advisory Council

• Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel​, Tom Peak - Employment Law Committee Chair; Skip Philips – Former President​; Mike Walsh – Former President; Bob Barton – Former Board Member​

• Louisiana Bar Foundation​, Skip Philips – Board Member, President; Eddie Hughes - Capital Area Community Partnership Panel Member

• Louisiana State Law Institute​, Rick Norman – President; Skip Philips – Council Member​; Mary Hester – Council Member​; Bill Wilson – Civil Procedure Committee

• Louisiana State Bar Association​, Mike Walsh – Criminal Law Section Chair; Ann Halphen - Legal Interprofessional Committee

• Louisiana Veterans Museum Foundation, Tom Peak - Board of Trustees

• LSU AgCenter

• LSU Alumni Association, Coulter McMahen - Young Alumni Advisory Council

• LSU College of the Coast and Environment​

• LSU of Alexandria Foundation

• LSU Foundation​, Mary Hester, John McDermott – Planned Giving and Professional Advisory Council

• LSU Rural Life Museum​, Nancy Dougherty – Board Member; Chair of Nominating and Board Management Committee

• Manship Theatre at the Shaw Center for the Arts, Bob Barton - Board of Directors

• Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center and Cancer Services of GBR​, Brett Furr – Former Board Chair​; Katie Goodson – 2018 and 2019 Fundraiser Committee Chair​; Robin Toups – Fundraiser Committee Member; Mary Hester – Foundation, Professional Advisors Council

• The Miracle League at Cypress Mounds - Coulter McMahen, volunteer coach

• MSI Global​

• Muscular Dystrophy Association Legal Leaders​, Tom Easterly – Former Founding Member 

• Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center​, Skip Philips – Vice Chair and Chair of the Building and Planning Committee

• Pelican Leadership Academy, Coulter McMahen- Member

• Pennington Biomedical Research Foundation

• Playmakers of Baton Rouge

• Presbyterian Lay Committee​, Lloyd Lunceford – Past Vice-Chair

• Red Rock and Blue Foundation​

• SHRM, Greater Baton Rouge Chapter​, Vicki Crochet – Associate Member

• Southern University Alumni Federation​

• Southern University System Foundation​

• Southern University Law Center​

• Special Olympics – Louisiana

• SportsBR​, Rebecca Hinton – Board Member

• St. George School

• St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital - Baton Rouge

• St. Lillian Academy

• Susan G. Komen For the Cure Baton Rouge

• Theatre Baton Rouge, Amy Lambert – Board of Advisor Member; Barrye Miyagi – Board of Advisors, Strategic Development Committee and Board Development Committee

• Totes de Joie - Kiki Bergeron - Board Member, President, Treasurer

• Trinity Episcopal Church​, Bill Wilson – Finance Committee

• University Laboratory School in Baton Rouge​, Amy Groves Lowe – Club Cub Past President

• University Laboratory School Foundation, Robin Toups and Katie Goodson - Board Members

• University of New Orleans Foundations

• Volunteers In Public Schools - Baton Rouge​, Debbie Lamb – Advisory Panel

• Webb Park Civic Association

• Woman’s Hospital

• WRKF Public Radio

• YMCA of Greater Baton Rouge​, Leah Cook – Charles W. Lamar Jr. YMCA Board Member