Experience

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  Grace Consulting LLC

  • Washington, DC

  • Principal

    • 2022 - Present
    • Washington, DC

    Since resigning from my final law firm December 31, 2021, I have won a tax examination by the IRS of large dealerships of vehicles. The IRS had assessed the businesses more than $22 million in allegedly underpaid Federal income tax plus penalties and interest. Collaborating with the dealerships...

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  Lewis Brisbois

  • Washington, District of Columbia, United States

  • Partner

    • 2020 - 2021
    • Washington, District of Columbia, United States

    I joined Lewis Brisbois as a Partner soon after the firm had opened in Washington, DC, filling a coveted need for a tax lawyer. Working almost entirely with clients and colleagues located elsewhere, I served as the firm's "go to" Washington tax resource. For enterprises in numerou...

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  Wiley Rein LLP

  • Washington D.C. Metro Area

  • Consulting Counsel

    • 2016 - 2019
    • Washington D.C. Metro Area

    Wiley brands itself as "wired into Washington"; bringing to the firm my experience in the Federal Government and years of practicing law in Washington, DC, I fit and augmented that description. I also provided Wiley the full-time expertise in Tax the firm had been lacking. Serving as ...

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  Whiteford, Taylor & Preston

  • Washington, DC

  • Counsel

    • 2013 - 2016
    • Washington, DC

    Resuming the traditional practice of law following my marketing role at Milbank, I found fulfillment in this regional law firm's robustly representing nonpublic companies and entrepreneurs headquartered primarily in the MidAtlantic states. Utilizing upon my historical technical expertise, I ...

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  Milbank LLP

  • Washington, DC

  • Managing Director

    • 2009 - 2013
    • Washington, DC

    As Managing Director with Milbank, I successfully interwove my technical expertise in tax with a zest for selling and marketing inherited from my salesman Father. Milbank needed precisely that combination of attributes to augment its Tax Account Analysis and Recovery Services ("TAARS")...

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  Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC

  • Washington, DC

  • Counsel

    • 2003 - 2009
    • Washington, DC

    This position enabled me simultaneously to continue practicing transactional tax law and to indulge my passions for writing and editing. Collaborating with colleagues in the firm's offices outside Washington, DC, I structured and drafted documents implementing complex real estate joint ventu...

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  Georgetown University Law Center

  • Washington, DC

  • Director, Graduate Tax and Securities (LL.M.) Programs

    • 2003 - 2005
    • Washington, DC

    While practicing law full time, I also directed part time the Graduate Tax and Securities (LL.M.) Programs at Georgetown University Law Center. These longstanding programs had lost visibility and momentum. I reenergized and expanded them, adding new courses and faculty. I also mentored and co...

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  Powell Goldstein LLP

  • Washington, DC

  • Counsel

    • 1996 - 2003
    • Washington, DC

    This opportunity enabled me to resume practicing law with a law firm while employing my expanded expertise in the taxation of partnerships, other passthrough entities, and their owners. A senior colleague and I sorted out a complex web of intense disagreements among factions of a successful but...

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  EY

  • Washington, DC

  • Senior Manager

    • 1992 - 1996
    • Washington, DC

    This role utilized the expertise in taxation of partnerships and other passthrough entities I had started developing in practicing law before serving in the Federal Government and then enhanced at the IRS National Office. With the Passthrough Entities and Real Estate Group in EY's National O...

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  Dechert LLP

  • Washington, DC

  • Counsel

    • 1990 - 1992
    • Washington, DC

    Resuming the private practice of law after having served in the Federal Government (IRS Office of Chief Counsel (National Office) in Washington, DC), I developed from scratch a tax consulting practice. Drawing upon my new, firsthand perspectives of how the IRS "thinks," I also guided c...

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  Internal Revenue Service Office of Chief Counsel

  • Washington, DC

  • Senior Attorney-Advisor

    • 1985 - 1990
    • Washington, DC

    My joining the IRS Office of Chief Counsel (National Office) in Washington, DC, in November 1985 exemplified "being in the right place at the right time." What I had learned in private practice about partnership taxation and syndicated offerings of securities made me the logical choice...

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  Mayer Brown

  • Chicago, IL

  • Associate

    • 1982 - 1985
    • Chicago, IL

    In 1982, I joined Mayer Brown as an Associate in Chicago, Illinois, in order to return to my Midwestern roots and to experience a larger Tax Department compared to that of my previous firm. The legal work to which I was exposed and my experiences at Mayer Brown continued to mold my career practi...

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  Paul Hastings

  • Los Angeles, CA

  • Associate

    • 1981 - 1982
    • Los Angeles, CA

    Upon receiving my Juris Doctorate (JD), I rejoined Paul Hastings in Los Angeles, California, full-time after having worked there as a Summer Associate preceding my third year of law school. I could not have experienced a better way to start a career practicing law. As the only Associate in the ...

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  Touche Ross & Company

  • Chicago, Illinois, United States

  • Auditor

    • 1976 - 1977
    • Chicago, Illinois, United States

    Upon receiving my Bachelor of Science (BS) in Accountancy and passing the Unform CPA Examination, I entered the professional world as an auditor with the then Touche Ross & Company, since absorbed into Deloitte LLP. I could not have started my professional career any better way. On the Audi...