Larry A Campagna

Practice Areas

Tax Controversy & Litigation

Tax

Criminal Tax Defense

Federal White Collar Criminal Defense

State and Local Tax Controversy & Planning

Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Audits and Investigations

Employee Retention Tax Credit (ERC and ERTC)

Career

Larry Campagna has an established reputation as an authoritative litigator in matters of business litigation, white-collar criminal defense, and particularly in federal, state and local tax controversies. For more than 45 years, he has resolved thousands of civil and criminal litigation matters, many of which involved sophisticated and complex legal issues that established precedent in courts at the federal, state and local levels.

Highlights of Mr. Campagna’s career include: representing the first taxpayer to be awarded attorneys' fees by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals; serving as lead counsel in one of the largest project cases in the history of the United States Tax Court; and successfully defending one of the world's largest accounting firms in a tax malpractice case.

Mr. Campagna teaches a course in the law of Tax Crimes and Money Laundering as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Houston Law Center. Larry is also currently serving as President of the American College of Tax Counsel for the 2023 to 2024 year. The College is made up of approximately 700 of the top tax attorneys in the country, and the Fellows of the College devote their time to filing amicus briefs in important cases and taking on other projects to improve the tax system. He has also served the American Bar Association Section of Taxation as Chair of the Employment Taxes Committee; as Chair of the Subcommittee on IRS Investigations and Procedures of the Committee on Civil and Criminal Tax Penalties; and as Chair of a Task Force on Offshore Credit Card Cases of the Civil and Criminal Tax Penalties Committee.