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Herbert Odell has practiced for over 40 years in all areas of the tax law, including planning and controversy work for major U.S. corporations, litigation of significant cases in the U.S. Tax Court, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, and the U.S. district courts (jury and non-jury cases), appeals of tax cases to the U.S. court of appeals, administrative matters with the IRS Examination Division, Appeals Division, National Office and Competent Authority, and ruling requests before the National Office. His planning practice includes representing multinational corporate clients in the international area in connection with cross-border transactions, in-bound transactions for foreign entities, out-bound transactions for U.S. entities, and general tax advice in connection with U.S. entities operating abroad. Mr. Odell began his career with the Tax Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, trying a variety of tax cases. He left the Department of Justice to practice in Miami for several years after which he joined Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in Philadelphia where he practiced in their tax department, ultimately becoming the administrative head of that department. After spending twenty years at as a partner at Morgan, he and several other partners started their own tax boutique in Philadelphia, Washington and London. In 1990, Mr. Odell founded and organized a group of international tax lawyers who meet on a regular basis to exchange ideas and information about the tax laws in their various countries, which now span six continents. This international tax network provides Mr. Odell and Chamberlain, Hrdlicka with the opportunity to meet our clients' needs for tax advice in connection with transactions and business activities that span numerous borders. As a tax litigation attorney, Mr. Odell has tried many cases during his career, many of them involving issues of national importance. He was the lead trial lawyer in Scott Paper Co. v. United States, 74 TC 187 (1980), a case that established an investment credit rule that overturned IRS National policy. He was also lead counsel in Kimberly-Clark Tissue Co. v. U.S., which involved the appropriate method for computing tax deficiency interest. He settled two major cases involving the deductibility of large greenmail payments made by taxpayers involved in takeover actions. Recently, he was one of the lead counsels in Black & Decker v. United States, a contingent liability case and Kohler v. United States, a Mexican debt swap transaction. | 