500 West Madison Street Suite 3700, Chicago, IL USA 60661
For over four decades, Fred has provided state and local tax counsel to an impressive list of multistate and multinational corporations. From planning for tax obligations to the successful resolution of tax disputes, Fred has seen just about everything. He appeared before the United States Supreme Court and the California Supreme Court and argued before the Illinois and Missouri Supreme Courts. He also argued before the Illinois, Maryland, New Mexico, and New Jersey Appellate Courts and tried cases before trial courts and administrative tribunals of numerous other states.
Throughout his career, Fred lectured before the Council on State Taxation, the Tax Executives Institute, the Chicago Tax Club, New York University’s Conference on State and local Taxation, Vanderbilt University School of Law’s Paul J. Hartman State and Local Tax Forum, Georgetown University School of Law’s Institute on State and Local Taxation, and the California Tax Policy Conference. Fred is an adjunct professor of law at Northwestern’s Pritzker School of Law where he teaches state and local taxation in its Graduate Tax Program.
Prior to joining the firm, Fred was of counsel at HMB Legal Counsel, a well-established, corporate-focused law firm based in Chicago, Illinois where he was instrumental in helping to build its nationally recognized state and local tax (SALT) team and helped to connect clients with the firm’s SALT resources.
Fred was recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® in 2025 for Tax Litigation and Controversy and Tax Law. He was named a “Leading Lawyer” for Business Tax Law in 2022, 2023 and 2024 by Leading Lawyers magazine. Fred was recognized as an Illinois “Super Lawyer” for Business Tax Law by Super Lawyers magazine (2005-2006, 2008-2021). He was Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law’s Adjunct Professor of the Year Award Nominee in 2020. In 2018, Fred was recipient of the “Tax State Author of the Year” Award by Bloomberg Tax and Bloomberg Tax’s State Tax Advisory Board.
Insights View All
Webinars
Publication
DePaul University College of Law J.D. (1974)
University of Illinois at Chicago B.S., Accounting (1970)
Illinois (1974)
American Bar Association, Section of Taxation, State and Local Tax Committee, Member
Illinois Department of Revenue, Director’s Practitioner Advisory Group, Member
Taxpayers’ Federation of Illinois, Board of Trustees and Advisory Board, Member
New York University School of Continuing Legal Education, State and Local Tax Advisory Board, Member
Bloomberg BNA, State Tax Advisory Board, Member
Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, Adjunct Professor
Disclaimer
While we are pleased to have you contact us by telephone, surface mail, electronic mail, or by facsimile transmission, contacting Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP or any of its attorneys does not create an attorney-client relationship. The formation of an attorney-client relationship requires consideration of multiple factors, including possible conflicts of interest. An attorney-client relationship is formed only when both you and the Firm have agreed to proceed with a defined engagement.
DO NOT CONVEY TO US ANY INFORMATION YOU REGARD AS CONFIDENTIAL UNTIL A FORMAL CLIENT-ATTORNEY RELATIONSHIP HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED.
If you do convey information, you recognize that we may review and disclose the information, and you agree that even if you regard the information as highly confidential and even if it is transmitted in a good faith effort to retain us, such a review does not preclude us from representing another client directly adverse to you, even in a matter where that information could be used against you.
