Climbing Above the Culture Clash

three partners.
Jinghua Liu was promoted to special counsel at
the Beijing office of Baker & McKenzie.
2006
Maryam Assad is practicing at Rafii &
Associates in Los Angeles.
2007
Cory Bilodeau is practicing at Fletcher, Tilton &
Whipple in Worcester.
2008
Steve Goldman’s article “Corporate
Expatriation: A Case Analysis” was published
in the Florida Tax Review. He is at Thomson
Reuters.
2008
Linda Fisher opened her own estate planning
practice in Norwood.
Samuel Lee’s paper “A Recommendation, in
Light of the Current Economy, for Revising
the Way §304 Applies to International
Transactions,” which he wrote with the help
of Professor Skip Patton, was published in the
August Tax Management International Journal.
Pablo Revilla has been in the tax area of the
General Prosecutor’s Office in Buenos Aires
since 2002 and serves as secretary of the board
of the Argentine Fiscal Association until 2010.
Caren Schindel is a partner at McLaughlin,
Richards, Mahaney, Biller & Woodyshek in
Natick, working with divorce, estate planning,
Medicaid planning, elder and tax law.
Allison F. Tilton opened Tilton Law LLC in
Waltham, practicing in the areas of estate
planning, estate administration, and taxation.
Tilton Law LLC serves both Massachusetts and
New Jersey.
Shane Kiggen (Tax ’08, J.D. ’07) see 2007 J.D.
notes.
Adrian Martinez is at KPMG ICS in Silicon
Valley.
Ruth Mattson is an estate, financial and tax
planning associate at Bowditch & Dewey in
Worcester.
Luciana Pires is in international tax at Deloitte &
Touche in San Jose.
Rita Popot is tax counsel at the Massachusetts
Department of Revenue in Boston.
Ben Willis finished his first year at
PriceWaterhouseCooper’s M&A section in
Washington, D.C. He also published an article
on the effect of debt recharacterization on
worthless securities deductions in the July 2009
Tax Adviser.
2009
Steve Gerlach is a third-year associate at
Bernstein Shur in Portland, Maine, and is
practicing in the areas of corporate tax, state
and local taxation, taxation of intellectual
property, and employee benefits.
Michael Giles, after sitting for the Utah bar
exam this summer, is with the estate planning/
tax section of Bennett Tueller Johnson and
Deere in Salt Lake City.
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