Attorneys • Wm. Robert Pope, Jr.

PRACTICE AREAS: Tax Disputes, Controversies, and Litigation, Criminal Tax Investigations, and Tax Collection (Internal Revenue Service and Tennessee Department of Revenue); Taxation in Bankruptcies, Insolvencies, and Workouts; and Business Bankruptcy and Business Litigation.

Email: bobpope@whitereasor.com

Telephone: 615-383-3345

Fax: 615-383-5534

From 1974 to 1980, Bob Pope was a trial attorney in the Office of Chief Counsel, Internal Revenue Service. He developed, and maintains, professional relationships with revenue agents, special agents, revenue officers, and Chief Counsel Lawyers at the Internal Revenue Service, many of whom continue to work in Tennessee.

Since then, Mr. Pope has focused his law practice on the tax procedures and processes of the Internal Revenue Service and the Tennessee Department of Revenue, as well as those of their respective enforcement arms. He works closely with accounting firms, certified public accountants and tax lawyers on tax procedure and process matters not routinely encountered by those professionals, particularly with a view to tax litigation or bankruptcy solutions. Mr. Pope also has substantial experience in insolvency and business dispute matters.

Mr. Pope lectures frequently on federal tax procedure and process. He has presented at seminars sponsored by, among others, The American Bar Association’s Section on Taxation, The Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants, The Tennessee Bar Association, The New York University Institute on Federal Taxation, The Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisers, The Maryland Association of Certified Public Accountants, The Chattanooga Tax Practioners Club and The Tennessee Federal Tax Institute. He served on the Bankruptcy Task Force of the ABA Tax Section, and he participated in that group’s presentation before the Tax Subcommittee of the National Bankruptcy Review Commission. Mr. Pope has served both as a director of the Mid-South Commercial Law Institute, and as its treasurer. He is a Trustee, and past President, of The Tennessee Federal Tax Institute. Mr. Pope has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America (Taxation) since 2007, and Mid-South Super Lawyers (Taxation and Bankruptcy) since 2006.

Mr. Pope served in the United States Army from 1968 to 1971 (Viet Nam, 1969-1970, 2nd Battalion, 34th Armor (25th Infantry Division) and 8th Field Hospital).

Mr. Pope maintains a lifelong allegiance to the University of North Carolina men’s basketball team, tempered with at least one pilgrimage to Neyland Stadium each Fall. He is a struggling addict, and little more, to week-end golf. Mr. Pope hopes to run a second marathon.

Education:

St. Andrew Presbyterian College (B.A., 1968); University of Tennessee (J.D., 1974).

Bar admissions:

North Carolina and Unites States Tax Court, 1974; Tennessee, 1981.

Member:

Nashville (former Chair: Tax Committee and Bankruptcy Committee), Tennessee, and American (Tax Section, former and first Chair, Bankruptcy and Workouts Committee; Member, Civil and Criminal Penalties Committee) Bar Associations; Turnaround Management Association; The Southeast Bar IRS Liason Group.