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Walter is an associate in Dorsey's Tax, Trusts and Estates practice group. His practice focuses on all aspects of wealth management, including implementing practical and tax efficient estate plans, business succession planning, nonprofit organizations, and assisting executors and trustees in fulfilling their duties.

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Stephen represents clients in a wide variety of taxation, business, and securities matters. He focuses his practice on helping businesses, whether large or small and whether established or in the process of getting started, to navigate legal complexities so that they can focus on their day-to-day business operations without having to worry about tax or legal issues.

Scott Henrie is a member in the Seattle office where he has practiced since 1982. His practice involves civil litigation with an emphasis on commercial disputes, trusts, receiverships and bankruptcy estates.. Mr. Henrie is engaged in primarily a litigation practice. He has represented clients in jurisdictions from Alaska to California and before federal, state and bankruptcy judges. He also has experience before appellate and administrative panels. Mr. Henrie has a particular concentration on jury trials.. He has extensive experience with a wide variety of issues including: contracts, trusts, real estate, bankruptcy, receiverships, secured transactions, insurance, creditors’ rights, intellectual property and professional liability.. Mr. Henrie has also been recognized by the Seattle Met magazine as a “Top Lawyer” in Commercial Litigation for 2010, a designation based upon Martindale-Hubbell's ranking of those practitioners in King County who have been judged by their peers to be “AV Preeminent”—the highest peer-review rating available.

Robbie counsels individuals, families and businesses on matters involving income, estate and gift tax planning. He represents many businesses in transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions, succession planning and organization strategies. Robbie also handles probate and trust matters and designs estate plans for clients of all financial means. His tax background cements his relationship with clients for both business and estate planning purposes.

Rob McCallum's practice emphasizes the resolution of civil and criminal tax matters before the Internal Revenue Service and the Washington State Department of Revenue. He also represents clients in other federal and state criminal matters.. Prior to entering private practice, Mr. McCallum was a federal prosecutor with the Criminal Tax Section of the United States Department of Justice and an Attorney-Advisor with the United States Tax Court in Washington, D.C. While at the Department of Justice, he represented the Internal Revenue Service in grand jury investigations and criminal trials in federal district court.. Mr. McCallum is an adjunct professor at Seattle University School of Law and Golden Gate University's Graduate Tax Program in Seattle, where he teaches several courses, including tax practice and procedure. He has received the Outstanding Faculty Member Award and Distinguished Teaching Award from Golden Gate University.

My practice is focused primarily upon general business and corporation law with a heavy emphasis on federal and state taxes.  I enjoy working with closely-held and family businesses of all sizes and at different stages of their development through the transition to family members or third parties.  Working with my client’s financial and other professional advisors, I help strategize for growth and identify solutions that address the client’s legal, tax, and operational issues.  Key to this comprehensive approach is ensuring that the client's estate plan is both current and contemplates effective tax strategies.

My practice focuses on advising high net-worth individuals and businesses with sophisticated tax planning. Prior to joining Lasher, I obtained my CPA and worked as both a tax consultant and auditor gaining a strong understanding and acumen of tax returns, financial statements and business operations. After obtaining my law degree, I went on to advise Fortune 500 companies in sophisticated tax planning and compliance. I now brings my expertise to medium-sized businesses and families to successfully navigate the complexities of federal and Washington state estate taxes, gift taxes, generations skipping taxes, business successions strategies to the next generation and probate and trust administration. I serve as outside general counsel to many private businesses, guiding legal strategy for significant and complex matters associated with business operations.. I also advise on a variety of business matters, including purchases and sales of businesses, ongoing corporate and employment law issues, and resolution of business disputes. My probate and trust administration practice is known to efficiently maneuver complex and taxable probates as well as serve as an advisor in litigation matters between trustees, beneficiaries, heirs, and other parties.

My practice concentrates on general business and estate planning with a strong emphasis on tax planning for partnerships, corporations, trusts, estates, and individuals.  I draft legal documents such as partnerhsip/shareholder agreements, wills, trust documents, and lease agreements.  I assist with all phases of real estate development and operations.  I also represent clients before IRS Appeals and in IRS Audits.

Ms. Veliz joined LeSourd & Patten, P.S. in 2008 after working for 13 years at the Office of Chief Counsel for the Internal Revenue Service. As an attorney for the IRS, she tried cases before the United States Tax Court involving individuals, corporations, and estates. She also provided advice to IRS agents during audits and on collection matters. In addition, Ms. Veliz represented the IRS in bankruptcy cases.. Currently, Ms. Veliz's practice consists of a broad range of tax issues arising in tax controversy matters before the Internal Revenue Service and representing clients before the United States Tax Court.

Ms. McAuliffe is an associate in the Tax, Trusts, and Estates group. Her practice involves estate planning, including wills, living trusts, charitable gift planning, and family business entity formation. Before beginning her legal practice Ms. McAuliffe worked as a business analyst in a management consultant firm and in non-profit management.

Mr. Silver has over 25 years of experience representing taxpayers having disputes with Washington State and federal taxing authorities and is recognized as one of Washington's premier taxation attorneys advocating on behalf of businesses and individuals before Washington's Department of Revenue and the IRS. He is a graduate of Columbia and NYU Law School and also holds an LLM in Tax from NYU Law. He is widely known as an authority in Washington State business, sales and use tax matters, and has represented numerous businesses in audit, appeal, collection and settlement situations.. Author of Washington Taxes: Representing Taxpayers Before the Washington Department of Revenue (Butterworth Publishing, 1992), and numerous articles. This is a partial list of clients we have represented in tax audits, tax appeals, corporate tax issues, settlements and compromises with the Washington State Department of Revenue:. Physicians, lawyers, accountants, court reporting services, temporary placement services, designers and interior decorators, and others providing personal services. Restaurants, caterers, business which prepare and deliver meals at home, school cafeterias operators, retail grocers, and other food preparers. General building contractors, speculative builders, subcontractors (mechanical, electrical, etc.); Public works contracts such as for a city, the State of Washington, or the United States or instrumentality thereof; Real estate developers. Painters and masons. Carpenters and cabinet makers. Roofers. Portable crane services. Persons bringing tangible personal property into the state on which sales tax has not been paid. Manufacturers, farmers, retailers, wholesalers, manufacturer’s reps, processors for hire, video producers. Truckers, fuel distributors, interstate carriers. Janitorial and waste disposal services, carpet, drapery and vent cleaning services,. Automotive repair and rebuilding businesses, auto dealerships and extended warranty insurers. Satellite uplink, communications, computer development and software companies. Yacht brokers. If you are having a tax issue in the State of Washington, please contact us. We want to hear from you.. Martin Silver, PS, Gets Results. Washington State Department of Revenue Tax Results. Here is a partial list of the types of Washington State tax matters our office has handled:. We have at the request of others sought additional, and successful review of matters at first determined against taxpayers by the Department of Revenue’s Appeals Division.. We have successfully obtained exemptions from sales tax for Manufacturing Machinery and Equipment both at audit and on appeal.. We have successfully limited the exposure of out of state corporations doing business in Washington. We have successfully defended businesses against successorship claims, and in one case obtained a determination limiting the Compliance Division’s ability to assert successorship on any basis but that enumerated by statute.. We have dealt with numerous cases where the Department of Revenue seeks to impose use tax on vehicles, vessels or planes on the ground that they are placed in use in Washington State.. We have dealt with many complex questions involving application of the law of agency, which may be involved where a person believes it has not earned income but is receiving proceeds only to be held for the account of another person.. We have in many cases qualified a business for deductions for sales made for delivery in other states.. We have obtained apportionment of income between Washington and other states where services have been performed in part in Washington and in part in other states.. We have successfully defended numerous businesses against sales tax sought to be imposed.. We have handled numerous cases involving application of the Real Estate Excise Tax.. We have appealed and negotiated on behalf of individuals held personally liable for their business’ unpaid sales tax.. Federal Internal Revenue Service Tax Results. Here is a partial list of the types of federal tax matters our office has handled:. We have successfully negotiated settlements with the IRS appeals division, both before and after the filing of a U.S. Tax Court petition.. We have successfully concluded offers in compromise, installment agreements for businesses and individuals, and partial payment agreements (where the taxpayer did not qualify for either an offer in compromise or installment agreement).. We have assisted married couples in innocent spouse matters and have successfully limited community property liability for the pre-marital taxes owed by one spouse.. We have assisted numerous business owners facing personal liability for payroll taxes which their business failed to deposit.. We have filed numerous applications for discharge of real property to secure the release of the property from federal tax liens.. We have secured the release of IRS levies through direct negotiation with revenue officers assigned to our clients' cases.

Lisa advises nonprofit organizations and businesses on critical legal issues in order to keep them compliant with a myriad of rules and regulations.  She counsels nonprofits on tax and operational issues, including formation, obtaining and maintaining tax-exempt status, private foundation excise taxes, excess benefit transactions, lobbying restrictions, fundraising law compliance, and collaboration with other nonprofits or businesses. Lisa also counsels closely held businesses and startups on governance issues, tax matters, mergers and acquisitions, deferred compensation, corporate giving, social entrepreneurism, and general business issues.

Katie assists individuals and families in Washington and Oregon with estate planning, and trust and estate administration. She also works with business owners and their families on business succession planning.. Katie understands that each client has specific goals and drafts primary estate planning documents tailored for the client’s individual needs. She also works closely with high-income clients, assisting with drafting, funding and implementing complex wealth transfer and income tax mitigation plans, modifying existing irrevocable trusts judicially and non-judicially, and assisting family closely held companies with succession planning.. She also assists individual and corporate fiduciaries with a wide range of issues, including valuation, distribution and management of assets, fiduciary income taxes, and beneficiary disputes. She also helps clients with administration matters, including preparing estate and gift tax returns and dispute resolution agreements, assisting with succession or sale of family business interests from estates, and defending high-net worth estates through IRS .

Jenna works with individuals and families to prepare estate plans that are tailored to each client’s unique needs. She enjoys finding solutions to complex planning issues and helping her clients plan for the future in the context of ever-changing state and federal gift and estate tax laws.. Jenna also advises professional fiduciaries, multi-generational families, family-owned businesses and charitable organizations on important financial and tax matters such as trust and estate administration, gift and estate taxation, retirement asset planning, and charitable planned giving. She has a particular interest in assisting clients with international planning needs.

I serve as bond counsel, tax counsel, underwriters' counsel, and disclosure counsel on general obligation, revenue, and special obligation financings by state, local, and tribal governments.. It is my great pleasure to assist in financing the infrastructure that allows communities to thrive.

I have been practicing law in Seattle since graduating with honors from Seattle University School of Law in 1998.  My practice focuses primarily on estate and tax planning, probate, trust and estate litigation, trust administration, prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, domestic partnership agreements and succession planning and business transactions.  I also co-founded and partnered a local tax, business and estate planning firm in Seattle.. Over the years, I have represented a wide range of trust, estate and probate clients, working to assist them in their personal and tax planning needs.  Additionally, I have represented beneficiaries, personal representatives and trustees in estate litigation, both in defending fiduciaries and in bringing actions against fiduciaries.. As a member of the editorial board for the Real Property, Probate and Trust section of the Washington State Bar Association (WSBA), I have written articles and presented materials on topics ranging from tax filing to nontraditional family estate planning.  I am a member of the Estate Planning Council of Seattle and a member of the Tax Section fo the WSBA.. Prior to attending law school, I spent over eight years as a stockborker, regional sales manager and vice-president of a local brokerage firm.  My background gives me an understanding in financial and economic issues, as well as hands-on experience in dealing with the personal planning needs of individual clients.

I concentrate my practice on cross-border tax and business planning for U.S. and foreign entities. I work with clients to create efficient international investment structures from tax and legal perspectives. I counsel clients on all aspects of transactions, including formation, operation, exit strategies, mergers and acquisitions, financing and other business operations. My practice also includes tax aspects of aircraft ownership, transactions and financing.

I am a member in the Seattle office. My practice focuses on business and commercial transactions, including corporate formation, financing transactions, commercial real estate matters, as well as general commercial litigation. I also assist gaming clients with licensing and regulatory matters. In addition, I advise tribal clients on various business-related matters. I am conversational in Korean. I was named to Rising Stars for 2005, 2007, 2010 and 2011 by Washington Law & Politics magazine.

I am a member in the Seattle office. I focus my practice on creditordebtor relationships, real estate matters and commercial litigation. I have represented debtors under Chapters 7, 11 and 13 of the Bankruptcy Code, debtors-in-possession, secured and unsecured creditors, financial institutions, landlords, tenants, and leasing companies. I have represented both landlords and tenants in commercial and retail leases and related property management matters and with the acquisition, sale, and development of commercial and retail properties. My experience with residential real estate includes resolving disputes involving boundary lines, quiet title, adverse possession, misrepresentation, and earnest money. I have also represented businesses and individuals in all facets of collections, including prejudgment and post judgment remedies.

I advise and represent small and medium size businesses regarding federal and multi-state tax issues and tax audits.

Heidi focuses on all aspects of estate planning, estate and gift taxation, and estate and trust administration with an emphasis on personal planning for high net worth families and individuals. Heidi's practice also focuses on charitable planned giving for families and individuals and advising tax-exempt organizations with respect to incorporation, board structuring and education, federal and state compliance, and strategic planning.

Gregg D. Barton focuses his practice in state and local taxation in Washington (including Seattle, Bellevue, and Tacoma matters), Oregon and Alaska. He handles gross receipts, sales and use, net income, ad valorem, real estate excise and public utility tax matters. He is experienced in obtaining private rulings, handling audits and administrative appeals, and litigation.

Greg Perry is an associate in the tax practice group of Dorsey & Whitney's Seattle office. Mr. Perry's practice involves tax advising on a variety of business tax matters, including public and private mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs, corporate restructurings, incorporations, partnerships and limited liability companies, and offerings of debt, equity and other financial instruments.

George specializes in business law, tax and estate planning.  He graduated with honors from the University of Washington where he also received his law degree and an MBA (finance/accounting).  George serves as general legal counsel to hundreds of private and family companies and also serves as estate planning counsel to the owners of virtually all of these businesses. In addition, George acts as estate planning counsel to senior and other executives of publicly held corporations and their families. Finally, George handles the estate administration for many clients, including assuring that advanced estate plans and trusts are properly implemented.  His practice includes formation, operation and liquidation of businesses, business sales, and estate planning/probate for large estates.  George has often taught for the Washington Bar and at the UW School of Law, and received the Outstanding Faculty Award from Golden Gate Graduate School of Taxation.  His broad experience and attentive client service – combined with the effective use of technology – are foundational to his well-respected and successful law practice.