David Blair
Miller & Chevalier, Washington DC

David Blair is concentrated in the area of federal tax litigation including international tax, consolidated returns, and tax accounting issues.  Since joining Miller & Chevalier in 1995, Mr. Blair has worked on a number of large tax controversies pending before the U.S. Tax Court including the Petroleum Revenue Tax credibility decision (Exxon Corp. v. Commissioner, 113 T.C. 338 (1999).  He also works extensively on pre-litigation matter pending before the Internal Revenue Service Examination and Appeals Divisions and National Office.  From 1990 to 1995, Mr. Blair was a Trial Attorney for the Tax Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he litigated tax issues and complex factual questions in the federal courts.  From 1989 to 1990, he served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Frank M. Johnson, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Mr. Blair, is a member of the American Bar Association’s Section of Taxation, Court Procedures Committee, and the District of Columbia and Massachusetts bars. He 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.