Craig B. Fields is co-chair of the firm’s Tax Department and is also chair of the firm’s State + Local Tax Group. His practice focuses on litigation and planning relating to state and local tax matters. He has been involved in controversies regarding state and local tax issues before the administrative and judicial systems of jurisdictions throughout the United States as well as having resolved hundreds of non-public record cases around the country. Mr. Fields has also provided advice regarding the potential tax consequences of complex restructurings involving the corporation income (franchise) taxes, the sales and use taxes, and miscellaneous taxes of many jurisdictions.
Chambers USA has ranked Mr. Fields as a leading state tax lawyer in 2012, 2013, and 2014. In addition, Legal 500 US has recommended him since 2011 and he has been ranked consistently in Super Lawyers since 2006. He was also named to State Tax Notes’ “Top 10 Tax Lawyers” list in 2011.
Mr. Fields has written extensively in the area of state and local taxation. His articles have appeared in numerous publications, including Tax Management’s Multistate Tax Report, State Tax Notes, Research Institute of America’s State and Local Taxes Weekly, the COST State Tax Report, the Journal of State Taxation, the Journal of Multistate Taxation and Incentives, the Journal of New York Taxation, Interstate Tax Report, and the American Bar Association’s The State & Local Tax Lawyer.
Mr. Fields is also a frequent lecturer concerning state and local taxes and has spoken before such organizations as New York University’s Institute on State and Local Taxation, Georgetown University Law Center’s Advanced State and Local Tax Institute, Vanderbilt University Law School’s Paul J. Hartman State and Local Tax Forum, the Council On State Taxation, the Energy Tax Association, STARTUP, the Tax Executives Institute, the Tulane Tax Institute, the Practicing Law Institute, and the Tax Section of the American Bar Association. Mr. Fields is a member of the Georgetown Law Center Advisory Board, the Advisory Board for The Journal of State Taxation, and the Bloomberg BNA State Tax Advisory Board.
