Clients seek out Bob’s counsel in part because he’s hands-on, candid and efficient.  “I also have good, constructive relationships with all personnel in the courts and agencies and with opposing counsel.”

Bob’s assignments illustrate these qualities, including the following:

• In a recent local sales tax matter, a large manufacturer was taxed by a parish authority on a product used at a facility out of state. ”We challenged the tax favorably going back seven years and got an agreement going forward.”
• “I recently represented a major E&P entity hit with an additional state severance tax on crude oil, where I helped settle a series of disputes for pennies on the dollar.”
• Many cases settle before they head to litigation, but in a case that nearly went to the Louisiana Supreme Court, and we saved our _oil and gas client $80 million.
• I represented a multi-state drilling company and was able to defeat two parish use tax assessments for reconstruction work done on a drilling barge, prevailing at the Louisiana Supreme Court.
• I successfully represented a couple with a State tax credit claim for the alternative fuel vehicle tax credit where the State was fighting the credit and litigating over 600 individual claims. My case turned out to be the test case that caused the State to drop its litigation and award the credit to all qualifying individual and business claimants.
• I represented a major Texas based natural tobacco products distributor in a successful court challenge to Louisiana’s discriminatory tobacco tax discount for out of state suppliers.