Dana Romans Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Analyze and provide tax-specific legal advice for approximately 1,000 contracts per year with respect to commercial transactions across Amazon’s many businesses. This includes drafting and negotiating a variety of agreements including, but not limited to, licensing, marketing, procurement, professional services, service agreements, and NDAs. • Co-led a multi-year project in collaboration with both business and Legal to integrate Tax’s contracts approval process and document repository with Legal’s contracts platform. This resulted in a much more streamlined process for contract creators across the company and reduced SLAs for contracts approvals. • Created and established a contract pre-approval process for low-risk, high-volume agreements for the AWS and Project Kuiper businesses to allow limited staffing resources to focus on negotiating and approving high-risk, complex agreements. • Lead trainings for business, Legal, and Tax planning teams on how to use internal contracts review tools.

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Prepared monthly, quarterly, and annual indirect tax filings for sales, use, and telecom taxes. • Provided tax-specific legal guidance based on research of transactional tax laws and regulations using RIA, CCH, and other resources. The company was able to identify and minimize sales and use tax risks based on this guidance which resulted in a decrease in audit assessments.

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Advised business clients on state and local tax matters by conducting research and using tax law knowledge to identify areas of opportunity to reduce clients’ tax exposure.• Led a project to register a business client for state and local taxes in every US state. This allowed the client to properly collect and report taxes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia and decreased the risk of an audit assessment.

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Reviewed discovery documents for large litigation matters.

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Completed a variety of legal research assignments, drafted advisory opinions, and prepared litigation referrals to the Department of Justice.• Assisted in the preparation of Tax Court cases for trial including preparation of pleadings.• Resolved delinquent taxpayer accounts by settlement, referral to U.S. Bankruptcy Court, and other collection actions.

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Conducted research and prepared documents for bankruptcy cases.• Drafted documents on a variety of bankruptcy issues including complaints to revoke debtors' discharges and criminal referrals to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.• Researched specific bankruptcy issues such as whether the foreclosure sale of a boat could be considered a fraudulent conveyance.• Attended and observed meetings of creditors, bankruptcy court hearings, and depositions.

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Collaborated with community leaders to promote and organize a foreclosure prevention clinic to raise awareness for Washington State’s Foreclosure Fairness Act and to assist homeowners in avoiding foreclosure.

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Drafted correspondence, pleadings, and memos on multiple personal injury cases.• Managed case files and scheduling for approximately 20 cases.• Assisted attorney in preparing for trial by gathering and organizing trial materials.

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Conducted assessments on Community Court defendants to determine social service needs and connected defendants with resources and on-site social service staff.• Headed a data entry project to determine the demographic of Community Court defendants.

Master Of Laws (Llm), Tax Law/Taxation

Doctor Of Law (Jd)

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Political Science