Susan A. Berson

Susan A. Berson is a partner with and co-founder of the Berson Law Group LLP in Overland Park, Kan., and has more than two decades of legal experience in financial, tax and regulatory matters. She previously worked at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Tax Division in Washington, D.C.,<br>where she was awarded the Outstanding Attorney Award from the Attorney General in 1996 for trying tax cases in her representation of the IRS. Since entering private practice, Ms. Berson has advised entrepreneurs and small business owners in various industries and professions, including other attorneys and financial service professionals, on diverse tax, business and regulatory matters.She is also experienced in blockchain, FinTech and virtual currency matters. For practitioners and<br>their clients in the bankruptcy realm, she has provided pre-bankruptcy planning tax-consequence analysis on tax-indebtedness discharge, negotiating acceptable IRS offers-in-compromise, pursuing administrative remedies, guiding officers and directors of troubled businesses through tax-related fiduciary duties, and handling state and federal tax disputes. In addition, she is a certified mediator and provides mediation services in business and partnership disagreements, commercial contracts, tax disputes and conflicts among family beneficiaries in trusts and estates matters. The author of many articles and several books, including Federal Tax Litigation (Law Journal Press), which she is responsible for updating twice a year, Ms. Berson has written on a variety of topics and received an<br>ASBPE Award of Excellence, as well as an Azbee Bronze writing medal for her ABA Journal work. She received her J.D. from the University of Nebraska College of Law and her LL.M. in Taxation from Georgetown University Law Center.