Meadows, Collier, Reed, Cousins, Crouch & Ungerman, L.L.P. - Attorneys at Law

Firm News

• November 2009

  IRS BUSTS SWISS BANK SECRECY WIDE OPEN--read the article published in the Dallas Business Journal, Comment section, November 20-26, 2009
  by Josh O. Ungerman, J.D., CPA.  Read the article.

• August 2009

  Taxpayer Victory in Family Limited Partnershp case - Keller v. United States
  Read the opinion

• August 2009

  • The U.S. Court of Federal Claims July 30 ruled in favor of a Meadows Collier client that a retroactive Treasury regulation requiring reduction of a partner's outside basis for contingent obligations transferred to a partnership is invalid, because it does not satisfy any of the exceptions to the statutory bar on retroactive application of regulations under tax code Section 7805(b).  Read the opinion
     

• August 2009

  Josh O. Ungerman is quoted in an article, 'Swiss Agree to Expedite Processing of 4,450 UBS Accounts Under Treaty Request"  by David D. Stewart on taxanalysts.com.

• July 2009

  4 Firm Attorneys - Meadows, Cousins, Davis and Ungerman have been named to D Magazine's 2009 Best Business Lawyers in Dallas published in the July 2009 issue.

• June 2009

  •  Josh O. Ungerman is quoted in an article, 'Billionaire Tax Felon Says UBS Lied in Pledge to Report to IRS" by David Voreacos on bloomberg.com.  
     

• May 2009

  On Thursday, May 28. 2009, the Fort Worth Chapter/TSCPA honored the firm with the Meritorious Service Award to the Accounting Profession for 25 years of support to the Fort Worth CPA Tax Institute. Trey Cousins received the award on behalf of the firm.

• May 2009

  Charles M. Meadows, Jr. has received the Jules Ritholz Memorial Merit Award from the American Bar Association Tax Section's Committee on Civil and Criminal Tax Penalties at the May 2009 meeting.  This prestigious award recognizes Mr. Meadows's "outstanding dedication, achievements and integrity in the field of Civil and Criminal Tax Controversies."

• May 2009

  2 Firm attorneys will be listed in Super Lawyers, Corporate Counsel Edition to be published in September 2009--Meadows and Blau.  They will be listed in the Criminal Defense: White Collar practice area.

• March 2009

  • FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (MARCH 2009) - "Texans Cleared in $300 Million Tax Fraud Case in Virgin Islands."  Charles M. Meadows, Jr. and Josh O. Ungerman were on the defense team of what is believed to be the largest such case ever tried in the U.S. Virgin Islands.  Read Press Release
     

• March 2009

  David E. Colmenero, Anthony P. Daddino and Sarah Q. Wirskye were selected for inclusion on the Texas Rising Stars list featuring the top young attorneys in the state of Texas appearing in a special advertising section in the April 2009 issue of TEXAS MONTHLY and in Texas Super Lawyers - Rising Star Edition.  Colmenero and Daddino will be listed in the Tax practice area and Wirskye will be listed in the Criminal Defense: White Collar practice area.

• February 2009

  5 Firm attorneys will be listed in Super Lawyers, Corporate Counsel Edition to be published in July 2009--Collier, Cousins, Crouch, Pulman and Ungerman.  They will be listed in the Tax practice area.

• November 2008

  • Josh O. Ungerman is quoted in an article, 'Uptick in Tax Evasion Disclosures Mean More Bank Investigations, Says Attorneys" by Matt Squire on moneylaundering.com.
     

• September 2008

  6 Firm attorneys named 2008 Texas Super Lawyers-Meadows, Collier, Cousins, Pulman, Crouch and Ungerman. Meadows named one of the Top 100 Texas Super Lawyers and Top 100 for the Dallas/Fort Worth region.

• June 2008

  Charles M. Meadows, Jr. and Josh O. Ungerman were named “Best Lawyers in Dallas” by D Magazine in June 2008. Mr. Meadows was named for White Collar Defense and Mr. Ungerman was named for Tax.

• June 2008

  David Colmenero received The Chairman's Citation at the TSCPA Annual Meeting in June 2008 for his extraordinary volunteer service and contribution to cooperation between the legal and accounting profession through his efforts with the TSCPA State Tax Committee, State Bar of Texas State Tax Committee and the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts on the response to the Texas Comptroller's rules implementing the new margin tax.

• June 2008

  David E. Colmenero has been elected a member of the 2008-09 Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants Board of Directors.

• May 2008

  Michael E. McCue has been elected a Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation.

• April 2008

  Charles M. Meadows, Jr. and Charles W. Blau have been named to The International Who's Who of Business Crime Lawyers 2008 and The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers 2009.

• March 2008

  William R. Cousins, III has been named Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Professional Development Institute, University of North Texas

• January 2008

  Stephen A. Beck has joined the Dallas Bar Association Community Involvement Committee.

• October 2007

  Mary E. Wood has joined the Young Friends of the Ronald McDonald House of Dallas.

• October 2006

  Josh O. Ungerman has been elected a Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel.