Larry Campagna > Chamberlain Hrdlicka > Houston, United States > Lawyer Profile
Chamberlain Hrdlicka Offices
1200 Smith Street
Suite 1400
Houston, Texas 77002
TEXAS
United States
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Larry Campagna
Work Department
- 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
Position
Managing Shareholder
Career
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.
Education
University of Texas at Austin, B.A., 1974
University of Texas at Austin, J.D., 1977
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Tax > US taxes: contentious
(Hall of Fame)Chamberlain Hrdlicka represents clients in tax disputes before federal, state, and local tax authorities at all levels. The group is particularly active in litigation, including appeals before the US Supreme Court. The team is led from Houston by co-heads Juan F. Vasquez, Jr., who represents Fortune 500 companies, multinationals and high-net-worth individuals, and Lawrence Sherlock, who has more than 30 years’ experience negotiating and litigating federal tax disputes. Other prominent team members include ‘great counselor’ Larry Campagna
, also based in Houston, and Jaime Vasquez, of San Antonio, who covers disputes relating to income, employment, sales, and franchise tax. David Aughtry, in Atlanta, specializes in federal criminal and civil tax disputes, while ‘outstanding attorney‘ Kevin Sweeney, who works from Philadelphia, has expertise in high-stakes IRS audits. Philip Karter handles federal income tax, excise tax, and estate and gift tax, working from Philadelphia alongside SALT national practice co-chair Jennifer Karpchuk.