Craig B. Fields is co-chair of Blank Rome's Tax, Benefits, and Private Client Practice Group and lead's the firm's State & Local Tax Practice. His practice focuses on litigation and planning relating to state and local tax matters. He has been involved in controversies regarding state and local tax issues before the administrative and judicial systems of jurisdictions throughout the United States as well as having resolved hundreds of non-public record cases around the country. Mr. Fields has also provided advice regarding the potential tax consequences of complex restructurings involving the corporation income (franchise) taxes, the sales and use taxes, and miscellaneous taxes of many jurisdictions.Chambers USA has ranked Mr. Fields as a leading state tax lawyer since 2012. In addition, Legal 500 US has recommended him since 2011 and he has been ranked consistently in Super Lawyers since 2006. He received the “Outstanding Achievement in State and Local Taxation” Paul H. Frankel Award from the NYU School of Professional Studies in 2017 and was listed in 2018 as a "Tax MVP" in 2018 by Law 360. Mr. Fields has written extensively in the area of state and local taxation. His articles have appeared in numerous publications, including Tax Management’s Multistate Tax Report, the Journal of State Taxation, State Tax Notes, the COST State Tax Report, and the American Bar Association’s The State & Local Tax Lawyer.Mr. Fields is also a frequent lecturer concerning state and local taxes and has spoken before such organizations as New York University’s Institute on State and Local Taxation, Georgetown University Law Center’s Advanced State and Local Tax Institute, Vanderbilt University Law School’s Paul J. Hartman State and Local Tax Forum, the Council On State Taxation, the National Multistate Tax Symposium, the Ohio Tax Conference and the Energy Tax Association. Mr. Fields is a member of the Georgetown Law Center Advisory Board, the Advisory Board for The Journal of State Taxation, and the Bloomberg BNA State Tax Advisory Board. He graduated from Duke University School of Law and has an LL.M. in Taxation from New York University School of Law.