500 West Madison Street Suite 3700, Chicago, IL USA 60661
Lauren Ferrante focuses her practice on state and local taxation. She represents clients at all stages of state and local controversy disputes at the audit, administrative, and judicial levels. She also counsels clients on planning, transactional, and compliance matters with respect to various state and local tax issues. In particular, Lauren has extensive experience defending clients against qui tam (False Claims Act) claims filed in the state tax arena.
Lauren is a prolific author and speaker on state and local tax matters including apportionment, nexus, and tax procedure as well as other state tax issues.
Prior to joining the firm, Lauren was a partner at a national law firm in its Chicago, Illinois office where she concentrated her practice on state and local tax and represented taxpayers in state and local tax controversy disputes. as well as transactional, planning, and compliance matters related to state and local tax issues.
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Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law LL.M., Taxation (2010) with honors
University of Illinois College of Law J.D. (2009) magna cum laude
Miami University B.A. (2006) magna cum laude, Honors in History
Illinois (2009)
Tax Notes State
SALT Insights, Columnist (2023-present)
DM SALT Masters, Columnist (2021)
Chicago Bar Association, State and Local Tax Committee, Chair (2018-2019); Vice Chair (2017-2018
Institute for Professionals in Taxation, Member (2018-2019)
Sales Tax Symposium Committee, Member (2016-2018)
Young Professionals’ Advisory Council, Chicago Lawyers’ Committee (2015)
Law360, State & Local Tax Authority Editorial Advisory Board (2026)
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