
Lee Meyercord
Partner
Lee.Meyercord@tklaw.com- Dallas
F:214.999.1590
Experience
Lee Meyercord focuses her practice on federal, state, and local taxation of corporations, partnerships, individuals, and nonprofit organizations. She provides clients with tax planning advice on mergers and acquisitions, the operation and dispositions of partnerships and limited liability companies, and private equity transactions, and represents taxpayers in IRS audits, appeals, and federal income tax litigation. Lee also counsels clients on the organization, operation, and termination of nonprofit corporations and trusts, and obtaining and maintaining exemptions for these organizations from federal income, state franchise, sales and use, and local ad valorem taxes.
Lee is Board Certified in Tax Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.
Representative Matters
- Represent partnerships in litigation and IRS audits and appeals involving worthless loss issues, refund claims, and procedural issues, including statutes of limitations and penalties
- Represent tax-exempt organizations in IRS audits
- Represent tax-exempt organizations relating to federal income tax issues, including unrelated business taxable income, compliance and reporting issues, investments, governance, and charitable contribution deduction issues
- Represented individuals in IRS appeals involving penalties and estate and gift tax valuations issues and IRS collections case involving fiduciary liability
- Represented a large corporation in obtaining a private letter ruling on eliminating $23 billion excess loss account
- Represented multiple corporate clients in private and public debt and stock offerings
- Represented a real estate holding partnership in the refinancing and recapitalization of real estate assets and disguised sale issues
Prior Employment
- Judicial Intern for the Honorable Barbara M.G. Lynn, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas, Dallas, Texas, 2008
Related Services
News & Insights
- TK Attorneys Honored As 2021 “Best Lawyers Under 40” by D MagazineJanuary 20, 2021
- Client Alert: IRS Proposes Controversial Changes to Partnership Audit RulesJanuary 11, 2021
- Client Alert: IRS Pivots to TCJA EnforcementDecember 16, 2020
- "Changes to Partnership Recourse Liabilities in Final Regulations: Understanding the Cliff Effect"Winter 2020
Honors & Affiliations
Distinctions/Honors
- Texas Rising Stars® by Thomson Reuters (Tax, Business), 2017-2020; Top 50 Texas Women, Texas Rising Stars® by Thomson Reuters, 2020
- Next Generation Lawyer, The Legal 500 United States by Legalease (Tax: U.S. Taxes: Contentious), 2018, 2020
- Recognized Attorney, The Legal 500 United States by Legalease (Tax: U.S. Taxes: Contentious), 2018-2020
- Best Lawyers Under 40 in Dallas, D Magazine, 2017, 2020-2021
- Best Lawyers in Dallas (Tax: Litigation), D Magazine, 2020
- Tax Leadership Academy, State Bar of Texas Tax Section, 2016-2017
- Nolan Fellow, American Bar Association Section of Taxation, 2016
Memberships/Affiliations
- Co-Chair, Thompson & Knight Women’s Initiative Committee, 2020
- Fellow, Dallas Bar Foundation
- Member, American Bar Association; Tax Section; Administrative Practice Committee Representative to Membership and Marketing Committee, 2013-2016
- Member, State Bar of Texas; Co-Chair, Partnership and Real Estate Tax Committee, 2018-2019
- Member, Dallas Bar Association, Tax Section
- Member, Dallas Association of Young Lawyers
- Vice Chair of the Board of Directors, Mental Health America of Greater Dallas, 2014-2016
- Recruiting Committee, Thompson & Knight LLP, 2014-2015
Education & Admissions
Education
- L.L.M., 2011, New York University School of Law; Editor, Tax Law Review
- J.D., 2010, with high honors, The University of Texas School of Law; Order of the Coif; Phi Delta Phi; Chief Notes Editor, The Review of Litigation; Presidential Scholarship; Dean’s Achievement Award; Research Assistant to Professor Stanley Johanson (2009-2010)
- B.A., 2006, magna cum laude, Tulane University; Founders Scholarship; Phi Mu Award for Excellent Sociological Research and Thesis
Admissions
- Texas
- U.S. Tax Ct.
- U.S. Dist. Ct., N. Dist. Texas