We are pleased to announce that Jonathan Kalinski, Cory Stigile, Melissa Briggs and Sebastian Voth will be speaking at the California Lawyers Association 2026 California All-Tax Conference being held at the Westin San Diego on the following topics:
Jonathan Kalinski
Cannabis Update
Cory Stigile
Recent Developments and Practical Strategies in Representing Clients
Melissa Briggs
Give and Take: Expansion and Contraction of Taxpayers Rights
Sebastian Voth
Economic Substance and Abusive Transactions: Strategies, Pitfalls and Ethics Considerations in Representing Taxpayers
This conference stands as California’s leading educational and networking event for tax professionals from across the country. Attendees include attorneys, accountants, corporate tax executives, financial planners, enrolled agents, state and federal government officials, and tax practitioners at every level of experience.
Jonathan Kalinski is a Principal of the law firm of Hochman Salkin Toscher Perez P.C. and specializes in both civil and criminal tax controversies as well as sensitive tax matters including disclosures of previously undeclared interests in foreign financial accounts and assets and provides tax advice to taxpayers and their advisors throughout the world. He handles both Federal and state tax matters involving individuals, corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, and trusts and estates. Mr. Kalinski is a California Lawyers Association Taxation Section Executive Committee Member and an ABA Loretta Collins Argrett Fellowship Mentor.
For more information, please contact Jonathan Kalinski at kalinski@taxlitigator.com.
Cory Stigile is a Principal at Hochman Salkin Toscher Perez P.C., who specializes in tax controversies as well as business and international tax. His representation includes federal and state tax controversy matters, including sensitive tax-related examinations and investigations for individuals, partnerships, limited liability companies, and corporations. His practice also includes complex civil tax examinations, administrative appeals and tax collection proceedings (where he is widely respected for achieving meaningful resolutions of difficult tax collection issues). He has litigated cases in the U.S. Tax Court, the U.S. District Court, the Court of Federal Claims and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Mr. Stigile is a Certified Specialist, Taxation Law, The State Bar of California, Board of Legal Specialization.
Mr. Stigile is also a CPA licensed in California. He is an active volunteer with CalCPA and the AICPA, and is the President of PADI Foundation.
For more information, please contact Cory Stigile at stigile@taxlitigator.com.
Melissa Briggs is a Principal of Hochman Salkin Toscher Perez P.C. where she represents clients in civil and criminal tax controversies. Ms. Briggs has over twenty-four years of litigation experience in private, nonprofit, and government practice. Ms. Briggs spent over nine years as an appellate attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, Tax Division, Appellate Section. She served almost seven years as an Assistant United States Attorney with the United States Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California’s Tax Division. She began her legal career as a law clerk to the Hon. Phyllis A. Kravitch on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
Ms. Briggs is a fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel; American Bar Association, Tax Section Loretta Collins Argrett Fellowship Mentor; vice-chair of the California Lawyer’s Association Tax Section, Tax Practice and Procedure Committee, and active member of the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles.
For more information, please contact Melissa Briggs at briggs@taxlitigator.com.
Sebastian Voth is a Principal at Hochman Salkin Toscher Perez P.C., specializing in tax investigations, litigation and appeals, and complex tax matters. Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Voth served for 15 years at the Internal Revenue Service including most recently as a Special Trial Attorney with the IRS Office of Chief Counsel’s Strategic Litigation Division leading trial teams in all phases of litigation before the Tax Court. During his tenure with the IRS, Mr. Voth served on the leadership team of the nationwide IRS Counsel mentoring program and mentored numerous IRS attorneys. He is the recipient of two Lucite Awards for significant Tax Court opinions and received a 2024 Special Act Award (Strategic Litigation), the 2023 Nationwide Innovator of the Year (LB&I), the 2022 Nationwide Special Trial Attorney of the Year (SB/SE), the 2017 U.S. Department of the Treasury Outstanding Litigator and the 2017 Nationwide Attorney of the Year (SB/SE). Serving as a Special Trial Attorney, Mr. Voth handled some of the IRS’s most significant and complex litigation matters.
For more information, please contact Sebastian Voth at voth@taxlitigator.com
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