Larry A Campagna
(The following information was supplied by the firm)
Managing Shareholder
Expertise:
Tax Controversy & Litigation
Tax
Criminal Tax Defense
Federal White Collar Criminal Defense
State and Local Tax Controversy & Planning
Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Audits and Investigations
Larry Campagna has established a reputation as an authoritative litigator in matters of business litigation and white collar criminal defense, as well as federal, state and local tax controversies. Over more than 40 years, he has resolved thousands of civil and criminal litigation matters, many of which involved sophisticated and complex legal issues that established precedent in courts at the federal, state and local levels.
Highlights of Mr. Campagna’s career include: representing the first taxpayer to be awarded attorneys’ fees by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals; serving as lead counsel in one of the largest project cases in the history of the United States Tax Court; and successfully defending one of the world’s largest accounting firms in a tax malpractice case.
Mr. Campagna teaches a course in the law of Tax Crimes and Money Laundering as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Houston Law Center. He has served the American Bar Association Section of Taxation as Chair of the Employment Taxes Committee; as Chair of the Subcommittee on IRS Investigations and Procedures of the Committee on Civil and Criminal Tax Penalties; and as Chair of a Task Force on Offshore Credit Card Cases of the Civil and Criminal Tax Penalties Committee.
Significant Cases:
- In Johnson v. Sawyer, we battled for 15 years against the IRS to obtain damages for the wrongful disclosure of Mr. Johnson’s confidential tax information. The Government eventually paid Mr. Johnson the nation’s largest settlement for wrongfully disclosing tax return information.
- We served as lead counsel in one of the largest project cases in the history of the United States Tax Court, which involved over 2000 Petitioners and posed strategic and logistical challenges for both the taxpayers and the IRS. Our firm represented over 700 of the taxpayers and negotiated settlements on behalf of those taxpayers as well as generic settlements that could be applied to others with Hillcrest cases.
- We represented the first taxpayer to be awarded attorneys’ fees by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Education:
University of Texas at Austin, B.A., 1974
University of Texas at Austin, J.D., 1977