Tax Blog/Blawg

Lawrence Bass is a shareholder in the firm's trusts and estates and employee benefit practice.  Mr. Bass possesses more than 40 years of experience in counseling clients on a wide variety of matters including income, gift, estate and ...

Brett Berly is a Shareholder in the Firm’s Trusts & Estates section. He focuses his practice on the representation of high net-worth individuals and fiduciaries of trusts and estates with respect to estate planning, probate ...

Sebastien Chain joined Chamberlain Hrdlicka in 2011 and concentrates his practice on federal, state and local tax controversies, both civil and criminal, and he represents clients at the examination level, administrative ...

George Connelly is recognized as one of the leading federal tax litigators in the United States.  His practice focuses on IRS audit, collection and criminal matters including civil and criminal tax litigation matters, for clients ...

Tom Cullinan is a Shareholder in the Firm's Atlanta office. Tom joined the Firm from the IRS, where he served as the Counselor to the IRS Commissioner and then as the acting IRS Chief of Staff.  

While at the IRS, Tom was a member of the ...

Julie is a Shareholder in the firm’s Trusts & Estates section.  Her practice focuses on estate, gift, and generation-skipping tax planning as well as estate administration and related matters.  She handles matters such as the ...

Anuar Estefan's practice focuses on the international tax consequences of cross-border investments, in the planning, transactional, and controversy contexts. Mr. Estefan has broad experience with international tax planning ...

Asher Fried is a senior counsel in the Tax Controversy & Litigation Section of Chamberlain Hrdlicka in the Houston office.

Asher has significant experience representing clients in federal and state corporate and partnership ...

Alissa Gipson is a Senior Associate in the Tax Controversy, International Tax, State and Local Tax and Tax Planning sections in the Houston office. Ms. Gipson’s experience includes assisting clients with examinations and ...

Habeeb “Hobbs” Gnaim is a Shareholder in the Firm and serves as the head of the Firm's Tax Planning & Business Transactions Group. Mr. Gnaim previously served on the Firm’s Board of Directors and as head of the Recruiting ...

John Hackney specializes in Federal and state tax controversy matters and tax litigation, including tax-related examinations and administrative appeals involving individuals, business enterprises, partnerships, limited ...

Tom Jones is a Chamberlain Hrdlicka shareholder who maintains a dual practice in Corporate/Business law and Trust and Estates law. He has over 40 years of experience providing counsel and guidance to corporate management, business ...

Philip Karter specializes in tax controversy and tax litigation matters.  In his 40-year career, Mr. Karter has litigated Federal tax cases in the United States District Courts, the United States Tax Court and the United States Court ...

John Kirbo is a Senior Counsel in our tax controversy practice in Atlanta. John primarily represents clients before the Tax Court, Federal District Court, and the Internal Revenue Service.

John has a background in business ...

Scot Kirkpatrick possesses substantial experience in estate and tax law and heads the Trust and Estates Practice Group of the firm’s Atlanta office. He primarily represents high net worth individuals and their families.

Mr ...

Sam Kuzniewski is a member of the Tax Controversy group in the Atlanta office.

Prior to joining Chamberlain Hrdlicka, Sam earned his LL.M. in taxation at the University of Florida Levin College of Law and his J.D. at the University of ...

Mark Lubin is a tax attorney and CPA with extensive experience in M&A, international tax, joint ventures, restructurings, alternative investment vehicles and other areas of taxation important to companies operating globally and ...

With 30 years of legal experience, Patrick Martin’s practice focuses on a wide range of international tax issues. He assists domestic and foreign privately held companies, global investors, funds and other business entities ...

Tristan Montaque is an Associate Attorney in the Tax Controversy and Litigation group in Chamberlain Hrdlicka’s Houston office. He received both his J.D. and LL.M in Taxation at the University of Florida Levin College of Law.

Andrew Mullendore is an associate tax attorney and certified public accountant specializing in Tax Controversy. He has years of experience representing clients throughout all stages of the administrative and litigation phases ...

Katherine is a shareholder in the Tax Planning and Business Transactions and the Tax Controversy Section of Chamberlain Hrdlicka.  She represents clients in a broad range of federal and multi-state tax planning and tax controversy ...

Lauren Parker advises clients on estate planning, probate, and wealth transfer law matters. Her experience ranges from simple will drafting to more complex tax-planned wills, revocable trusts, defective grantor trusts and ...

Charles “Chuck” Rettig, a Shareholder at Chamberlain Hrdlicka in the Firm's Tax Controversy & Litigation practice and other Tax and Trust & Estate practices, served as Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from ...

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Hale Sheppard is a partner in the Tax Controversy Section of Chamberlain Hrdlicka.  He defends clients in tax audits, tax appeals, and Tax Court litigation, covering both domestic and international issues. Hale's ...

Jonathan Stasney is an associate in the Tax Controversy Practice Group. He graduated from Texas A&M University, and received his law degree and an LLM in Taxation from the University of Houston Law Center.

Prior to attending law ...

Joshua Sutin helps clients unravel complex legal and business issues related to employee benefit plans, tax-exempt organizations, and business tax planning. He counsels both businesses and not-for-profit organizations on the ...

Kevin Sweeney is an experienced tax attorney and former federal prosecutor who specializes in defending clients in civil and criminal tax controversy and litigation matters. He focuses on high-stakes IRS audits, civil tax ...

Leo Unzeitig is a shareholder in Chamberlain Hrdlicka’s San Antonio office. He assists with a wide range of federal tax controversy and litigation matters at all stages before the Internal Revenue Service and federal courts. Leo ...

Jaime Vasquez is a tax attorney in San Antonio. Mr. Vasquez is the Managing Shareholder of Chamberlain's San Antonio Office.

Mr. Vasquez concentrates his practice on federal, state, and international transactional and tax ...

Victor J. Viser is an associate in Chamberlain Hrdlicka's San Antonio office. He focuses his practice on federal, state, and international tax planning and controversy matters.

Mr. Viser also has expertise on the Paycheck ...

Robert Jeffrey Waddell maintains a multi-faceted practice focused on the issues and concerns of business owners, including contracts, mergers, lending, acquisition of real estate, corporate and business succession and wealth ...

Wyatt is a shareholder in the Tax Controversy Practice Group and the Estate & Income Tax Planning & Estate Administration Practice Group.

He has experience in wealth and asset protection planning, life insurance planning ...