Lawrence Brett

Experience

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  James Bohl, C.P.A. P.C.

  Oct 2011 - Jun 2014

  Bookkeeper

  • Utilized Intuit QuickBooks to input corporations’ bank and credit card transactions from paper statements into electronic form• Accessed customers’ online banking sites to pull statements• Reconciled accounts and prepared reports

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  Temperature Control Systems, Inc.

  Jul 2013 - now

  Full Charge Bookkeeper

  • Execute most of corporation’s financial functions, which include running payroll, reconciling accounts, and preparing accounts receivable and sales tax liability reports for CEO• Assess payroll data and financial statements and adjust corporation’s federal and state income tax payments accordingly throughout each fiscal year• Record all invoices as well as all bank and credit card transactions in electronic form

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  Suffolk County Industrial Development Agency

  Jul 2016 - Aug 2019

  Intern

  • Analyzed local prevailing wage and affordable housing laws and synthesized information into coherent reports for the Agency's directors• Executed a legislative audit of the Agency (linked below) involving cost-benefit analysis of all 2012-2016 Agency projects, which included centralizing pertinent data and calculating and organizing all findings for presentation to the Suffolk County Legislature• Effectuated a rebuild of the Agency’s website and analyzed new website for compliance with state disclosure laws for industrial development agencies• Initiated and implemented a new method for the Agency to request Annual Financial Reporting (AFR) compliance documents from all 140 companies with active IDA projects• Managed the enactment of a new contact management system (ProTrack) for the Agency with the goal of enhancing record-keeping and client communication abilities Show less

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  Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation

  Sept 2017 - Dec 2017

  Young Leaders Program Intern

  • Conducted research and contributed to scholarly pieces regarding drug policy issues, with a particular focus on the effects of marijuana edibles on underage consumers• Analyzed current federal and state drug laws, enforcement efforts, and relevant case law

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  Locke Lord LLP

  Jun 2020 - Aug 2020

  Summer Associate

  • Composed and reviewed motions to dismiss multiple claims, including a conversion claim, an equitable accounting claim, and a legal malpractice third-party claim for contribution and indemnification• Assessed and evaluated New York and New Jersey procedural and substantive statutory provisions and caselaw and crafted legal memoranda utilized in litigation documents• Surveyed all federal judicial districts regarding burden of proof within the student loan dischargeability exception in bankruptcy Show less

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  Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics

  Aug 2020 - May 2022

  • Articles Editor

    May 2021 - May 2022

  • Staff Editor

    Aug 2020 - May 2021
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  Quinn Emanuel

  May 2021 - Aug 2021

  Summer Associate

  • Composed and reviewed preliminary injunction motion and response motion in case involving several constitutional challenges to a state statute after extensive research of relevant Eleventh Circuit caselaw• Composed and reviewed motion to quash Rule 2004 examination and subpoena after research of relevant Eleventh Circuit caselaw and motion for attorney fees after research of relevant Third Circuit caselaw• Assessed and evaluated applicability of residual hearsay exception to statements of a deceased declarant in federal white-collar case and consequences of taking an inconsistent tax position abroad on an incentive arrangement offered to employees. Crafted separate legal memoranda addressing same.• Investigated a potential defendant’s inconsistent statements and motive for murder in high-profile case Show less

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  United States Department of Justice Tax Division

  Sept 2021 - Nov 2021

  Legal Intern

  • Assessed and evaluated the application of various federal sentencing enhancements in tax prosecution cases as well as federal circuits’ implementations of Cheek’s good-faith defense to willfulness mens rea in tax prosecutions• Composed legal memoranda regarding procedures and standards utilized by federal courts in determining criminal defendants’ competency to stand trial (linked below) as well as HIPAA and privacy rights impediments to issuing grand jury subpoenas for criminal defendants’ medical records• Prepared various court filings, including jury instructions and verdict form for Sixth Circuit tax prosecution case as well as a petition for disclosure of grand jury materials to a foreign government pursuant to Fed. R. Crim. Pro. 6(e) Show less

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  Quinn Emanuel

  Oct 2022 - Mar 2024

  Associate

  • Prepared discovery requests, discovery responses and objections, amended complaint, and opposition to motion to dismiss in case involving claims under 26 U.S.C. § 7431 and the Privacy Act regarding unlawful disclosure of returns and return information, and conducted extensive legal research regarding the same, including applicability of 26 U.S.C. § 6103.• Prepared initial presentation to the United States Department of Justice and responded to federal grand jury subpoena in Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigation.• Managed document review and production and defended deposition of critical witness in fast-moving commercial arbitration case.• Prepared complaint in First Amendment challenge to state donor disclosure law after extensive research of relevant caselaw, and prepared preliminary injunction motion in case involving First Amendment and other constitutional challenges to state statute banning COVID vaccination documentation after extensive research of relevant caselaw.• Conducted extensive legal research and prepared analysis regarding applicability of 26 U.S.C. § 6048 and Form 3520 reporting obligation, specifically regarding statute of limitations and entity classification.• Prepared Form 211 whistleblower submission reporting taxpayer’s failure to file FBAR for multiple tax years.• Conducted legal research regarding consequences of taking an inconsistent tax position abroad on an incentive arrangement offered to employees and prepared legal memorandum regarding the same. Show less

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  Groom Law Group, Chartered

  Mar 2024 - now

  Associate