Attorneys • James M. McCarten

PRACTICE AREAS: Taxation (Federal, State and Local Planning and Litigation); Estate Planning, Administration and Probate; Closely-Held Business Planning and Counseling; Business Succession Planning and Counseling; Nonprofit Corporations.

Email: mccarten@whitereasor.com

Telephone: 615-383-3345

Fax: 615-383-5534

Jim McCarten became a member of the firm in 2007. He engages in general tax practice. From representing clients during audits by the IRS and/or Tennessee Department of Revenue, to crafting tax structures for a new business, counseling clients on the tax aspects of business exit strategies or the design of non-qualified executive compensation packages, to designing an appropriate estate plan, almost all of Mr. McCarten’s practice involves taxes in some way.

Mr. McCarten began his professional tax career with the “Big 8” public accounting firm of Coopers & Lybrand. Following law school, he litigated tax cases for the Federal government as a member of the U.S. Department of Justice. In 1994, Jim was a founding member of one of East Tennessee’s largest and most respected firms.

Mr. McCarten is admitted to practice law in Tennessee, Georgia and Missouri, and has been included in The Best Lawyers for America since 2003 in the areas of Estates and Trusts, Nonprofit/Charity Law and Tax Law. He has been named by Mid-South Super Lawyers Magazine to the Top 100 Tennessee Super Lawyers list since 2006, and is a Fellow in the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. Jim has served as the Chair of the Tennessee Bar Association’s Tax Section (2006-2007) and currently serves as a Trustee of the Paul J. Hartman State & Local Tax Forum, the Tennessee Federal Tax Institute and the Advanced Institute on Corporate Taxation. He is the author of a professional treatise and numerous articles on tax-related topics and a frequent speaker throughout the Southeast at tax programs for CPAs and attorneys.

Jim, with his wife, Diane, recently joined and became active with both the Middle Tennessee Autism Society and The Treatment and Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorders (“TRIAD”) program, a part of Vanderbilt’s Kennedy Center.

Education:

University of Kansas (B.S. Accounting, 1979); University of Missouri-Kansas City (J.D. 1984); Emory University (LLM, Taxation, 1990).

Bar admissions:

Missouri, 1984; Georgia, 1988; Tennessee, 1991.

Member:

Kansas City (MO), Knoxville, Nashville; Georgia, Missouri, Tennessee (Chair, Tax Section, 2006/2007), and American Bar Associations