Zachary S. Taylor

Companies and individuals under government scrutiny on multiple fronts turn to attorney Zachary S. Taylor for coordinated defense strategies spanning criminal, civil, regulatory, and licensing matters.

Zach’s practice focuses on white collar defense and government enforcement. He guides clients through criminal investigations, grand jury subpoenas, civil investigative demands, regulatory proceedings, and enforcement actions brought by federal and state authorities—including the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Attorneys’ Offices, state Attorneys General, and Medicaid Fraud Control Units—as well as the licensing board proceedings that often accompany them. If a matter proceeds to trial, Zach serves as a key member of the defense team.

Dietary supplement companies facing criminal or civil government scrutiny over product adulteration, misbranding, or labeling claims rely on Zach’s dual fluency in law and science. He has extensive experience serving as scientific counsel in complex litigation, managing expert witnesses and handling Daubert motions and hearings that test the government’s or a plaintiff’s technical theories.

Zach represents a broad range of health care providers—including physicians, medical practices, skilled nursing facilities, pharmacies, behavioral health providers, and clinical laboratories—in criminal and civil False Claims Act investigations and litigation. He also helps clients navigate related state and federal regulatory issues, including the Anti-Kickback Statute, licensure requirements, and provider enrollment.

When allegations threaten an organization’s leadership or reputation, corporate boards and executives need an attorney who can move quickly and stay discreet. Zach leads sensitive internal investigations involving allegations of financial fraud, corruption, workplace culture concerns, and sexual harassment, coordinating interviews, managing document reviews, and presenting findings directly to boards of directors and senior leadership.

Before joining Epstein Becker Green, Zach was the only non-medical staff member employed concurrently by two unaffiliated hospitals in central New Jersey, where he built a collaborative of more than 30 organizations to develop community-benefit strategic plans, earning two Community Outreach Awards from the New Jersey Hospital Association’s Health Research and Educational Trust of New Jersey.

What Zach Delivers for Clients

• Command of Complex Scientific and Technical Evidence: When a case turns on laboratory testing, product formulation, or other technical questions, clients need counsel who can translate that material into a defense a judge or jury can follow. Zach works directly with a company’s own scientists and regulatory staff early in a matter, then carries that command of the record into cross-examining the government’s experts at trial.
• Discreet, Board-Level Internal Investigations: An internal investigation is only as useful as the record it leaves behind, particularly if a company later needs to explain its response to a regulator. Zach structures investigations to preserve privilege from the outset and helps boards translate the findings into concrete next steps, whether that means updating compliance controls or making a voluntary disclosure to the government.
• Rapid Response to Subpoenas and Civil Investigative Demands: A grand jury subpoena or civil investigative demand can arrive with little warning and a short deadline. Zach steps in immediately to coordinate document collection, privilege review, and production, while preparing clients and their executives for government interviews and reverse proffers.
• Sentencing and Post-Conviction Advocacy: For clients facing sentencing or the aftermath of a conviction, the work is far from over. Zach has drafted sentencing memoranda, coordinated letters of support, petitioned courts to modify supervised release conditions, and negotiated fine and restitution obligations, helping clients present the strongest possible case for leniency and compliance with post-conviction obligations.
• Guidance Across the Health Care Enforcement Landscape: Physicians, medical practices, nursing facilities, pharmacies, adult day care centers, home health agencies, behavioral health providers, and clinical laboratories all face similar exposure under the False Claims Act, Anti-Kickback Statute, and state licensure rules. Zach brings knowledge of that regulatory landscape to clients responding to a government inquiry or building compliance safeguards before one arises.

Dietary Supplement Enforcement and Litigation

• Served as scientific counsel on behalf of a dietary supplement company in a criminal trial. Zach managed expert witnesses and prepared multiple Daubert motions, oppositions, and replies. The client was acquitted on virtually all charges, including strict-liability misdemeanor counts, based on the underlying scientific evidence.
• Achieved a dismissal, on summary judgment, of product adulteration claims against a dietary supplement company.
• Helped defeat a threatened class action against dietary supplement companies alleging violations of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.

Health Care Fraud and Abuse Enforcement

• Represented a skilled nursing facility in a False Claims Act investigation brought by the Department of Justice and a state Medicaid Fraud Control Unit; no claims were brought against the client.
• Obtained a non-incarceratory sentence for an individual client in a federal health care fraud prosecution, along with a deferral of a seven-figure restitution obligation, and later secured a modification of the client’s supervised release conditions.

Internal Investigations

• Led an internal investigation for a transportation company involving allegations of financial improprieties and workplace culture concerns, including approximately 50 employee interviews with senior executives and a presentation of findings to the company’s board of directors; no charges were brought against the client.
• Conducted an internal investigation for a health care facility charged with fraud and abuse. Zach also drafted a letter regarding exemption from Medicaid suspension, resulting in the suspension being lifted.

Civil Investigative Demands, Subpoenas, and Other Criminal Defense

• Coordinated responses to multiple federal and state civil investigative demands and grand jury subpoenas on behalf of health care and life sciences companies, including document collection, privilege review, and preparation for government interviews.
• Represented multiple companies and individuals in criminal investigations and indictments under the Clean Air Act related to diesel emissions defeat devices.

Health Care Transactions and Disputes

• Assisted a large health care system in due diligence and acquisition of an independent hospital.
• Assisted in the formation of a business support services organization for a national specialty physician group practice.
• Successfully negotiated a settlement for a physician practice involved in a compensation dispute with a large health care system.

Results may vary depending on your particular facts and legal circumstances.

Listed in:

• The Best Lawyers in America, “Ones to Watch,” Commercial Litigation and Criminal Defense: White Collar (2023-2026)
• New Jersey Rising Stars: Health Care, White Collar Crimes, Business & Corporate (2023-2025). 

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Education

• Seton Hall University School of Law (J.D., magna cum laude)
  • Distinguished Scholar, Concentration in Health Law, Excellence in Health Law
  • Health Care Compliance Certification
  • 2018 Eugene Gressman Moot Court Champion and Best Oralist
• The University of Texas at Austin (M.Ed.)
• The University of Texas at Austin (B.A.)

Professional & Community Involvement

• New Jersey State Bar Association