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John Pontius
Rockville, MD Tax Law Lawyer with 19 years of experience
(240) 599-8027
199 East Montgomery Avenue
Suite 100
Rockville, MD 20850
Free ConsultationTax
Georgetown University Law Center and Widener University Commonwealth Law School
Attorney John Pontius is the founder of Pontius Tax Law, PLLC with offices in Washington, DC and in Rockville, Maryland. Mr. Pontius represents individual and business clients with sensitive and serious tax matters before the Internal Revenue Service and state taxing authorities. Mr. Pontius regularly advises clients with complex tax issues in the following areas: FBAR examinations, offshore disclosures, FATCA, tax planning, unfiled tax returns, release of tax liens and levies, trust fund recovery penalty, IRS and state audit examinations as well as Appeals, penalty abatement, US Tax Court litigation along with defense of tax fraud and tax evasion....
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Cheryl Sellers Johnson
Rockville, MD Tax Law Lawyer with 30 years of experience
Tax
Georgetown University Law Center and Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology
"I develop custom planning solutions that underscore my clients’ personal family profile while achieving their wealth transfer objectives in a tax-favored manner."
Experienced Trusts & Estates attorney practicing wealth transfer planning, estate & trust tax law, fiduciary litigation, and business formation & succession planning. Practice Trusts & Estate Planning and Wealth Transfer, Asset Protection, Tax, & Business Planning. Work with individual clients and small business owners. Advise clients on a full spectrum of tax and estate planning services, including wealth transfer, business, and tax planning. Develop customized solutions that emphasized clients’ personal family profile and priorities; and their wealth transfer objectives.
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Phillip J. Closius
Baltimore, MD Tax Law Lawyer with 49 years of experience
Free ConsultationTax, Appeals, Business and Environmental
Columbia University
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Jessica Jane Ledingham
Frederick, MD Tax Law Attorney with 8 years of experience
Tax
University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Law and Georgetown University Law Center
I worked six years in the tax industry, representing all types of taxpayers from individuals and small business owners to Fortune 500 companies.
I clerked for the Honorable Ronald Lee Buch of the U.S. Tax Court.
Since my time at the Tax Court, I honed my skills in the various areas of the legal profession. I previously worked in the Washington, DC law offices of Miller & Chevalier as well as Chamberlain Hrdlicka and more recently Willkie Farr. I represented individuals, corporations, and partnerships at all stages of an IRS examination, at appeals, and Tax Court in connection with federal income...
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Jeffrey Orenstein
Rockville, MD Tax Law Attorney with 40 years of experience
(301) 250-7232
15245 Shady Grove Rd
Suite 465, North Lobby
Rockville, MD 20850
Free ConsultationTax, Bankruptcy and Business
Widener University Delaware School of Law
Jeffrey M. Orenstein is a skilled commercial litigator with a particular emphasis on bankruptcy litigation. He has been appointed to serve as Bankruptcy Trustee and Examiner in complex Chapter 11 cases. For more than 25 years, he has represented bankruptcy estates, bankruptcy trustees in multiple jurisdictions, creditors and debtors in a wide variety of high profile bankruptcy cases and in business and consumer litigation. Mr. Orenstein has assisted the Federal government in obtaining bankruptcy fraud convictions in numerous cases. The Martindale-Hubbell legal directory gave Mr. Orenstein an AV rating, the highest given for legal ability and professional ethics.
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Gerald Warren Kelly
Columbia, MD Tax Law Lawyer with 28 years of experience
(410) 740-8750
10320 Little Patuxent Parkway
Suite 608
Columbia, MD 21044
Tax and White Collar Crime
University of Baltimore School of Law
Mr. Kelly has devoted his legal career to representing clients entangled in major disputes with the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”). He has represented businesses and individuals before the agency’s collection examination, and appeals divisions. Additionally, Mr. Kelly represents clients that are the targets of criminal tax investigations. With over two hundred appearances in various federal courts, tax litigation is a significant part of Mr. Kelly’s practice. He has also argued before the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Mr. Kelly began his professional career with the IRS in 1991, where he was assigned to field offices in the...
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Jeffrey P. Rogyom
Towson, MD Tax Law Lawyer with 23 years of experience
Free ConsultationTax, Business and Real Estate
Boston University School of Law and Loyola University New Orleans
Jeff graduated from Boston University School of Law’s Tax LLM program and practice as a tax, business, and estate planning attorney.
Jeff advises clients on legal and tax issues relating to business transactions, start-ups, corporate mergers & acquisitions, business successions, estate planning, and real estate. Jeff practices both federal and state tax law, and he assists individuals and businesses with tax audit defense and tax planning in the areas of income, corporate, partnership, franchise, sales and use, property, and estate taxes. Jeff's background allows him to consider clients' personal, business, and tax needs. Jeff was the 2013 president...
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C. Valerie Ibe
Pikesville, MD Tax Law Lawyer with 25 years of experience
1008 Reisterstown Road
Pikesville, MD 21208
Tax, Bankruptcy, Employment and Immigration
Rivers State University
The Law Offices of C. Valerie Ibe, has licenses to practice in the States of California, Maryland and New York and is equipped to help residents of these states to face the
complexities of civil litigation whether in the state courts or in federal courts.
The lead attorney, in addition to legal qualifications has also an MBA in Business Administration and a CPA
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Stephen Thienel
Columbia, MD Tax Law Lawyer with 26 years of experience
Tax and Business
University of Baltimore School of Law and University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Steve Thienel is an attorney and managing member of Thienel Law Firm, a Maryland law firm dedicated to servicing the needs of professionals and business owners. In his law practice, Steve focuses his practice on a full spectrum of legal services in the areas of tax, business, estate planning, and family law matters to maximize client opportunities while preserving wealth. He represents entrepreneurs, investors, business owners, executives, and professionals in both litigation and transactional matters. Steve is an entrepreneur and business owner himself having been a business consultant, academic, and corporate executive prior to starting his own law practice.
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Christia Anne Pritts
Towson, MD Tax Law Attorney with 23 years of experience
Tax
Georgetown University Law Center and University of Baltimore School of Law
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Jennifer C. McManus
Towson, MD Tax Law Lawyer
Tax
University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
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Seth Kossman
Baltimore, MD Tax Law Lawyer with 24 years of experience
Tax and Business
University of Baltimore School of Law and University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Seth Kossman is a shareholder in the Firm's Tax Group, focusing his practice in the areas of tax controversy and tax compliance matters. He heads the Firm's Tax Controversy Subgroup, leading a team of more than 20 attorneys who spend a significant part of their practice in this area.
Mr. Kossman represents a diverse group of the Firm's clients on tax planning, federal and state tax controversy, tax compliance and transactional matters. His clients include corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships and individuals.
Prior to his legal career, Mr. Kossman was a member of the tax practice of a national accounting firm and...
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Andrew Lynwood Jiranek
Towson, MD Tax Law Lawyer with 37 years of experience
Tax, Business, Real Estate and Securities
William & Mary Marshall-Wythe School of Law
I am a business and real estate attorney that seeks to develop long term relationships with business organizations, developers and individuals. As an attorney, I seek to help my clients with the legal aspects of business and personal development projects and with managing legal risks in an increasingly integrated and regulated business environment. My work requires strategic planning, structuring and documenting, as well as legal risk management and dispute resolution functions.
My specialties include corporate, finance, real estate, commercial, mergers and acquisition, commercial and administrative litigation and dispute resolution, employment, intellectual property, estate planning and corporate succession, tax and regulatory...
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Eric Fifer
Towson, MD Tax Law Attorney with 19 years of experience
Tax
University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
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Bruce H. Jurist
Baltimore, MD Tax Law Attorney with 42 years of experience
Tax and Business
Georgetown University Law Center, Hofstra University School of Law and University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
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Paul E. Draper
Baltimore, MD Tax Law Attorney with 35 years of experience
Free ConsultationTax
University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
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Alan H. Grant
Rockville, MD Tax Law Lawyer with 45 years of experience
Free ConsultationTax, Business, Employment and Real Estate
Georgetown University Law Center
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Roopesh Vijayan
Baltimore, MD Tax Law Lawyer with 21 years of experience
Tax, Bankruptcy and Business
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and University of Baltimore School of Law
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Murray Singerman
Columbia, MD Tax Law Lawyer with 31 years of experience
Tax and Bankruptcy
University of Baltimore
With 25 year's legal & business experience, Murray Singerman is a Maryland tax lawyer who brings to the practice of law advanced tax law training (Masters of Law in Taxation), experience as an aggressive advocate, and expertise in tough negotiations. He serves clients from the DC, Columbia, Baltimore areas and across the nation. For Mr. Singerman, tax controversy litigation is not just an area of law and expertise; the practice of law is an opportunity to improve the lives of his clients. As the CEO of a temporary staffing firm, a marketing executive for an R&D firm,...
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Stacey R. Berger
Columbia, MD Tax Law Attorney with 44 years of experience
Tax and Arbitration & Mediation
The George Washington University Law School and The George Washington University Law School
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Larry Isaac Strauss
Baltimore, MD Tax Law Attorney with 22 years of experience
Tax, Bankruptcy and Business
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Emanuel Kallina II
Towson, MD Tax Law Lawyer with 48 years of experience
Thomas K. Mallon
Towson, MD Tax Law Attorney
Tax, Administrative, Business and Consumer
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Sharon Tal Diamant
Rockville, MD Tax Law Attorney with 14 years of experience
Tax, Business and Real Estate
University of Dayton School of Law and Georgetown University Law Center
Ms. Sharon T. Diamant has served as an attorney for more than twenty-five years. She began as a prosecutor in the Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office in October 2000, left in 2002 to practice criminal law in Florida, then returned in 2004. She remained with the office until 2010, when she opened her own practice.
During her tenure as a prosecutor, Ms. Diamant prosecuted a variety of cases—ranging from theft, assault, and traffic offenses to sexual abuse matters in the Juvenile Division. One of her high-profile juvenile cases led to the first legislation requiring juveniles charged with sexual offenses to register...
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Ryan Thomas West
Ocean City, MD Tax Law Attorney with 8 years of experience
Free ConsultationTax, Antitrust, Business and Real Estate
Ryan T. West is one of eight grandchildren of the late Raymond D. Coates Sr., a lawyer and founder of the Law Firm of Coates, Coates & Coates, P.A. in Worcester County, Maryland. Mr. Coates was a former State's Attorney for Worcester County; a former County Attorney for Worcester County; a former member of the Attorney Grievance Commission; a former member of the Maryland State Bar Association Judicial Selection Commission; Past President of the Worcester County Bar Association; and a member of the Maryland State and American Bar Association. In college, Mr. Coates was a professional musician and...