Ms. O'Connor joined the firm in July 2007 from the Department of Justice, where she had been Assistant Attorney General for the Tax Division since 2001. During her tenure at the Department of Justice, O'Connor oversaw the litigation—civil and criminal, trial and appellate—of the Division's approximately 350 attorneys. Significant litigation during this time included that involving the Internal Revenue Service's corporate and individual tax shelter enforcement initiatives, its professional firm promoter penalty investigations, and offshore shelter compliance programs, among others. O'Connor instituted a civil-criminal coordination program in the Tax Division, resulting in the government's obtaining injunctions against the promotion of tax fraud and the preparation of fraudulent returns.

As Assistant Attorney General, Ms. O'Connor represented the United States in oral argument before the United States Supreme Court and the United States Courts of Appeals for the Fifth and Federal Circuits, and was a member of the President's Corporate Fraud Task Force.

Early in her career, Ms. O'Connor was a corporate tax law specialist with the National Office of the Internal Revenue Service. And for more than 20 years, Ms. O'Connor, who is also a CPA, was a national tax consultant with several top national accounting firms. She has taught in the graduate tax law program of Georgetown University School of Law, and was Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Tax Policy at the George Mason University School of Law.

Ms. O'Connor has long been a frequent speaker at bar conferences and business seminars.

Education

J.D., Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, 1978

B.A., Columbus State University, 1975

Admissions

District of Columbia

United States Supreme Court, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, District of Columbia Court of Appeals, United States Court of Federal Claims, United States Tax Court

Affiliations

Member, American, Federal and District of Columbia Bar Associations

Former member of the Tax Executive Committee, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants

Material at this site by or referring to Eileen J. O'Connor:

1. IRS Will Scrutinize Fringe Benefits During Employment Tax Audits (Employment Tax Bulletin 8/10) [8.2K]

2. Congress Proposes to Increase Fund Managers' Taxes on Carried Interests (Partnership Tax Bulletin 07/07) [14.4K]

3. Eileen J. O'Connor Joins Pillsbury (7/10/2007) [5.7K]

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