David B Blair

David B. Blair’s practice is concentrated in the area of federal tax litigation, including international tax, transfer pricing, tax-exempt bonds, consolidated returns, excise taxes, and tax accounting issues.  Mr. Blair began his career as a Trial Attorney for the Tax Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he litigated tax issues before the U.S. District Courts and Bankruptcy Courts.  After joining Miller & Chevalier in 1990, Mr. Blair worked on a number of large tax litigations including Exxon Corp. v. Commissioner, 113 T.C. 338 (1999) (foreign tax credits), and Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Commissioner, 114 T.C. 293 (2000) (tax accounting). Mr. Blair graduated, magna cum laude, from Cornell Law School, was elected to the Order of the Coif, and was Articles Editor of the Cornell Law Review.  As noted above, Mr. Blair was a Trial Attorney at the Department of Justice from 1990 to 1995.  In 1994, he received the Tax Division’s Outstanding Attorney Award.   From 1989 to 1990, he served as Law Clerk to the Honorable Frank M. Johnson, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.