Lauren A. Ferrante focuses her practice on state and local taxation. She represents taxpayers at all stages of state and local controversy disputes at the audit, administrative and judicial levels. Lauren also assists taxpayers with planning, transactional, and compliance matters with respect to various state and local taxes, including income and franchise, sales and use, gross receipts and other miscellaneous taxes.
Lauren regularly speaks on state and local tax matters and has authored publications on nexus, procedure and state tax false claims act issues and Illinois tax issues. She hosts key presentations for colleagues at McDermott Will & Emery on a wide variety of state and local tax topics and legal ethics, including Hot Topics & Recent Developments, State Tax-Related Third Party Enforcement Actions, and Basics of State and Local Taxation.
Education
Northwestern University School of Law, LLM, with honors, 2010
University of Illinois College of Law, JD, magna cum laude, 2009
Miami University, BA, magna cum laude, 2006
Admissions
Illinois
Associée | Chicago
Chicago: +1 312 984 2053
Chicago: +1 312 984 7700
October 18, 2018
June 14, 2018
March 13, 2017
November 3, 2016
November/December 2016
American Business USA and the Difficulty of Transactional Nexus Arguments
4 April, 2015
October 14, 2013
A Decade of Lessons From Litigating State Tax False Claims Act Cases
October 1, 2012
August 31, 2018
Illinois Governor Vetoes Car Sharing Bill, Proposes Own Plan
January 19, 2018
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