Jane Wells May focuses her practice on state and local tax matters. She represents businesses in connection with tax controversies at the audit, administrative and judicial levels around the United States. Her clients include companies in manufacturing, retailing, pharmaceuticals, financial services, agribusiness, food and beverage, health care, energy, technology and insurance industries. Jane is the global head of the Firm’s Tax Practice. She sits on the Firm’s Management and Compensation Committees, and previously served on the Executive Committee.
Jane has successfully litigated state and local tax matters raising a variety of statutory and constitutional issues. She has defended numerous internet sellers in several states against cases brought under state whistleblower statutes, including the Illinois False Claims Act, alleging fraudulent failures to collect and remit use tax. Jane also advises business clients on tax planning matters and represents athletes and entertainers in connection with employment contract issues.
Jane is a co-founder of Tax in the City: A Woman’s Tax Roundtable®, which consists of women tax professionals with an interest in discussing substantive tax issues in a collegial and confidential setting, and which meets regularly in Chicago and New York.
While in law school, Jane was senior articles editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review and a member of the Moot Court Board.
Education
Vanderbilt University Law School, JD, Order of the Coif, 1986
Wittenberg University, BA, with honors, 1980
Admissions
District of Columbia
Illinois
Courts/Agencies
Supreme Court of the United States
May 8, 2019
December 12, 2018
Tax in the City® Chicago: A Women's Tax Roundtable - Year in Review
December 6, 2018
Tax in the City® New York: A Women's Tax Roundtable - Year in Review
September 19, 2018
June 21, 2018
June 21, 2018
May 22, 2018
December 14, 2017
October 12, 2017
June 8, 2017
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January 18, 2019
August 28, 2018
September 18, 2017
New York False Claims Act Tax Cases Increasing, State Official Says
October 3, 2016
September 16, 2016
July 29, 2016
January 20, 2015
December 22, 2014
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