FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 14, 2006

Davis Wright Tremaine Partner James Wreggelsworth Named Chair of Partnerships and LLCS Committee of American Bar Association’s Section of Taxation

SEATTLE, WA, DEC. 14, 2006 – Davis Wright Tremaine LLP is proud to announce that James E. Wreggelsworth, a partner in the firm’s Seattle office, has been appointed as chair of the Partnerships and LLCs Committee of the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Section of Taxation. Wreggelsworth has been actively involved in ABA Tax Section matters for nearly 15 years, and has held various leadership positions within the Partnerships and LLCs Committee, including serving as chair of its Continuing Legal Education Subcommittee and as vice-chair of its Contributions and Distributions Subcommittee.

The ABA Section of Taxation is the national voice of tax lawyers with a membership of approximately 20,000 lawyers nationwide. Its goals include helping taxpayers better understand their rights and obligations under the tax laws and working to make the tax system more fair, simpler and easier to administer. The Partnerships and LLCs Committee, which Wreggelsworth now chairs, is the Tax Section’s second largest committee.

Wreggelsworth has practiced law for over 20 years, primarily focusing on federal tax matters and business law matters. His practice focuses on federal tax matters includes pass-through entity and real estate taxation, corporate tax planning, and work on complex M&A transactions, and public/private debt and stock offerings. He has been with Davis Wright Tremaine since 1987 and was chair of the firm’s business tax practice group from 1993 to 2001. His other professional activities have included serving as a member of the Advisory Board of BNA’s Corporate Tax and Business Planning Review, as a director of the Attorney-CPA Tax Clinic, and as past chair of the Seattle Tax Group. He has published numerous articles on federal tax matters and is a frequent speaker on federal income tax and limited liability company matters.

Wreggelsworth’s other honors include being named as a “leader in his field” by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business; listed in Best Lawyers in America; listed as a “Super Lawyer” in Washington Law & Politics; and listed as a “Top Lawyer” in Seattle Magazine.

About Davis Wright Tremaine
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP is a national business and litigation law firm with more than 450 attorneys in nine offices located throughout the Pacific Northwest, in Anchorage, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, and Washington, D.C. and Shanghai.

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