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Practice Areas: Civil and criminal tax compliance;
general civil litigation in Federal, State and local courts.
Education: Hastings College of Law, University of
California (1968; Juris Doctor; Editorial Board, Hastings
Law Journal); University of California at Berkeley.
Bar Admissions: District of Columbia and California
Bars; admitted to practice before the U.S. Tax Court, the U.S.
Court of Federal Claims and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Experience: Deputy Assistant and Acting Assistant
Attorney General for the Tax Division of the U.S. Department
of Justice: Trial Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice—Tax
Division.
Memberships: U.S. Court of Federal Claims Advisory
Council, 1993–; District of Columbia Bar; the State Bar of
California: Federal (Chairman: Court and Tax Procedure
Committee, 1977-1982; Section of Taxation, 1982-1984; Senior
Advisory Committee, 1984–) and American (Member, Sections
of: Taxation; Chairman, Subcommittee on Legislative and
Administration Proposals, 1993–, Litigation) Bar
Associations.
Publications Frequent speaker and panelist,
international, national, state and private tax
organizations; author and co-author of articles for
international national tax publications, principally on tax
compliance matters; Criminal Tax Procedure (co-author), BNA
Tax Management Portfolio 162-2d (1987); “Tax Legislation
1972-1992: A Retrospective, Tax Notes; “Forfeiture of U.S.
Financial Assets,” Butterworths Journal of International
Banking and Financial Law.
Martindale-Hubbell Rating: AV Bar Register of
Preeminent Lawyers; "75 Best Washington Lawyers",
April 2002; "Top Lawyers", Washingtonian, December 2004; The
Best Lawyers in America: Tax Law, 2007. Mr. Durney serves as
Of Counsel to the Firm and also practices separately as a
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