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Tax

Mar. 21, 2013

Lawyers, whether they know it or not, need tax experts

Given the complexity of taxes, the education function tax experts serve can be of enormous value, even when there is no dispute about the amount of damages.

Robert W. Wood

Managing Partner, Wood LLP

333 Sacramento St
San Francisco , California 94111-3601

Phone: (415) 834-0113

Fax: (415) 789-4540

Email: wood@WoodLLP.com

Univ of Chicago Law School

Wood is a tax lawyer at Wood LLP, and often advises lawyers and litigants about tax issues.

Disclaimer: This is a self-serving article. I hope you will agree you need a tax expert and that you might even hire me. But whether you hire me, one of my tax lawyer colleagues or an accountant, tax considerations in your litigated or mediated disputes are worth considering. Here's why.

Tax law may produce groans from lawyers, clients, judges and juries. But we all must pay taxes and we all know they impact the bottom line. And with recent federal and California tax increases, ta...

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