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Paul S. Caselton is a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Illinois Springfield. He was previously Deputy General Counsel, Income Tax Division, for the Illinois Department of Revenue in Springfield. His article, Lost Profits Damage Awards Under UCC Section 2-708(2), appeared in the Stanford Law Review. Mr. Caselton received his B.A. in finance magna cum laude from the University of Illinois and his J.D. from Stanford Law School.
Michael Coveny is a Special Assistant Attorney General with the Illinois Department of Revenue in Chicago, where he focuses on sales tax litigation. Prior to joining the Department’s legal staff, he served for over 18 years as an Assistant Attorney General in the Revenue Litigation Bureau in the Office of the Illinois Attorney General in Chicago. Mr. Coveny is a CPA and a member of the Illinois CPA Society and the Chicago Bar Association. Mr. Coveny is Former Chair of the CBA State & Local Tax Committee. He received his B.B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and his J.D. and LL.M (Taxation) from IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law.
C. Eric Fader is the Senior Manager, Sales and Property Taxes, at GE Capital in Chicago. Mr. Fader is a CPA and is also an adjunct faculty member at the College of DuPage, where he teaches tax. He previously practiced with the firm Horwood Marcus and Berk Chartered in Chicago. Mr. Fader received his B.S. from Bradley University and his J.D. from DePaul University College of Law.
Jordan M. Goodman is a Partner with Horwood Marcus & Berk Chartered, in Chicago, where he concentrates his practice in state and local tax. Mr. Goodman is a member of the editorial boards for both the Journal of Multistate Taxation and CCH State Tax Income Alert as well as a member of the advisory board of the National Multistate Tax Symposium. Mr. Goodman received his B.S. with high honors in accounting from Indiana University and his J.D. from the University of Illinois College of Law. He is also a CPA.
David A. Hughes is a Partner in the Chicago law firm Horwood Marcus & Berk Chartered, where he concentrates his practice in the state and local tax area with special emphasis on income and sales/use tax matters. Mr. Hughes is a member of the American Bar Association’s State and Local Tax Executive Committee and the Chicago Tax Club’s Indirect and Operational Tax Committee as well as a Former Chair of the Illinois CPA Society’s State and Local Tax Committee. Mr. Hughes graduated magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame and received his law degree from Columbia University School of Law.
Thomas A. Jaconetty is a sole practitioner in Chicago. He is a member of the Chicago, Illinois State, and American Bar Associations as well as the Justinian Society of Lawyers and the Advocates Society. He has participated in 28 Chicago Bar Association Election Law Seminars, served as Chair of its Election Law Committee three times, and lectured at The UIC John Marshall Law School on ballot access and the “Suffrage and Elections” article of the Illinois Constitution. He often serves as a judge in the Julius Miner and First-Year Moot Court competitions at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and for the American Bar Association’s National Advocacy Program and on the boards for Regina Dominican High School and the Weber High School Alumni Association. Mr. Jaconetty received his B.A. summa cum laude from Loyola University Chicago and his J.D. from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law.
Stanley R. Kaminski is a Partner at Duane Morris LLP, in Chicago, where he concentrates his practice in the areas of state and local taxation, including multistate sales/use tax, franchise tax, corporate income tax, and individual income tax issues. Mr. Kaminski is a CPA and an adjunct professor of law at DePaul Law School. He has been listing in Leading (Tax) Lawyers and Super Lawyers for Illinos Tax Lawyers from 2005 – 2016. He has been awarded the Burton Award, presented to the top-30 authors for legal achievement in writing, and the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce’s Outstanding Volunteer Leadership Award. Mr. Kaminski received his B.S.C. with highest honors from DePaul University College of Commerce and his J.D. from DePaul University College of Law.
Dana Deen Kinionis Of Counselto Zack Stamp, Ltd., in Springfield, where she focuses on local, state, and federal tax issues, including nonqualified deferred compensation tax planning and administration issues, insurance regulation and compliance, nonprofit organization tax exemption issues, as well as property tax appeals and exemptions. She serves on the Oak Ridge Cemetery Board of Managers, the Sangamon County Board of Review, and the Springfield Art Association Board. She is a member of Illinois and Oklahoma State Bar Associations Ms. Kinion earned her B.A. from Texas A&M University, her J.D. from the University of Tulsa College of Law, and her LL.M. from Southern Methodist University School of Law.
David J. Kupiec is Managing Partner of Kupiec & Martin, LLC, in Chicago. Mr. Kupiec is a CPA and an adjunct business law instructor at Loyola University Chicago Quinlan School of Business. He is also Chair of the Illinois CPA Society State and Local Tax Committee and on the Board of the Taxpayers Federation of Illinois. He was previously Chair of the Illinois State Bar Association’s State and Local Tax Section, the Illinois Taxpayers’ Federation Income Tax Committee, and the Chicago Bar Association’s State Tax Committee. Mr. Kupiec is a member of the Illinois Department of Revenue’s Director’s Advisory Group and Audit Advisory Group, the Chicago Tax Club, the Illinois Chamber of Commerce, and the American Institute of CPAs. He received his B.B.A. from Loyola University of Chicago and his J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law.
David W. Machemer is an associate at Horwood, Marcus & Berk Chartered, in Chicago, and concentrates his practice in state and local tax matters. Mr. Machemer is a member of the Council on State Taxation and the Chicago Bar Association. He received his B.A. from Michigan State University and his J.D. from The John Marshall Law School.
Natalie M. Martin is a Founding Member of Kupiec & Martin, LLC, in Chicago, where she concentrates her practice in state and local planning, controversy resolution, and legislative and regulatory matters. Ms. Martin is a member of the Chicago Tax Club and the Illinois Chamber of Commerce as well as various committees of the Taxpayers Federation of Illinois. She received her B.S. from the University of Illinois and her J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law.
Julie-April Montgomery was an administrative law judge with the Illinois Department of Revenue for almost six years, Deputy Director for the Cook County Department of Revenue for three years, and a senior attorney in the Tax Group of the City of Chicago’s Law Department for eighteen years. She previously served as the local government liaison to the State and Local Tax Committee of the Chicago Bar Association, Associate Editor of the State and Local Tax Committee of the Illinois State Bar Association, member of the Illinois CPA Society’s State and Local Tax Committee, and the first female Vice Chair and Chair of the State and Local Tax Committee of the Chicago Bar Association. She was also in the Inaugural Class of the “Centennial Society” of the Chicago Alumni Chapter of Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity, International. Ms. Montgomery received her B.S. from the University of San Francisco, her M.B.A from Roosevelt University, and both her J.D. and LL.M. in Taxation from New York University, School of Law.
Gregory J. Ramel, Sr. is First Deputy Legal Counsel for the Illinois Department of Employment Security, in Chicago, where he practices in unemployment insurance. He substantially revised and rewrote the introductory essay on the Illinois Unemployment Insurance Act for SMITH-HURD ILLINOIS ANNOTATED STATUTES. Mr. Ramel is a member of the Chicago, Illinois State, and American Bar Associations and is a member and Past President of the Advocates Society. He received his B.A. from DePaul University, his M.A. from the University of Chicago, and his J.D. from DePaul University College of Law.
Jennifer C. Waryjas is an associate at Reed Smith LLP, in Chicago, and focuses her practice on state and local tax and unclaimed property. Ms. Waryjas is a member of the Virtual Learning Committee of the Unclaimed Property Professionals Organization, the Chicago Bar Association’s State and Local Tax Committee, and the Taxpayers Federation of Illinois’ Local Taxes Committee. She received her B.A. from Illinois Wesleyan University and her J.D. from the University of Illinois College of Law.
Douglas A. Wick is an associate at Reed Smith LLP, in Chicago, where he concentrates in state tax. Mr. Wick is Vice Chair of the State and Local Tax Committee of the Chicago Bar Association and was an extern for the Honorable Dale S. Fischer of the U.S. District Court, Central District of California. He received his LL.M. (taxation) from New York University, where he received the David F. Bradford Memorial Prize for best tax paper; his J.D. from the University of Southern California; and his B.S. from Illinois State University.
Kevin J. Wolfberg is a Partner with Schain, Banks, Kenny & Schwartz, Ltd., in Chicago, where he practices in the areas of government relations, state and local taxation, land use, zoning, economic incentives, and municipal law. Mr. Wolfberg is an adjunct professor at The John Marshall Law School, where he teaches state and local taxation, and is a member of the Illinois and Chicago Bar Associations, the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, and the Taxpayers Federal of Illinois. He received his B.A. from Indiana University and his J.D. and LL.M (Taxation) from The John Marshall Law School.
Michael J. Wynne is a Partner with Reed Smith LLP in Chicago in the firm’s State Tax Group. Mr. Wynne serves on the Advisory Committees for the Taxpayers Federation of Illinois and on the Tax Committee of the Illinois State Chamber of Commerce. He is also a member of the American Bar Association’s Litigation Section and the Chicago Bar Association’s State and Local Tax Committee. He received his B.A. from Southern Illinois University and his J.D. from The John Marshall Law School.
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