Karyna Lopez Email & Phone Number

Houston, Tx, Us

Houston, Texas, United States

Houston, Texas

Responsibilities and Accomplishments: • Continuing to fulfill the job requirements of a Clinic Staff Attorney • Responsible for the Clinic’s compliance with IRS, LSC, and state reporting requirements• In charge of increasing the Clinic’s pro bono and outreach presence in communities we serve • Responsible for the supervision and training of Clinic interns and legal staff in tax procedure and compliance with grant requirements• Have decreased client tax liabilities by over one million dollars over the past twelve months.Presentations: • Protecting Your Clients against Notorious Notarios: How Fraud can lead to IRS Debt or Deportation- April and July 2017• Tax Fraud Issue Spotting for Tax Preparers- January 2017• Drafting Client Settlement Agreements with Federal Tax Issues in Mind- April 2016Publications:• Chapter Reviewer- ABA's Effectively Representing Your Client Before the IRS (7th Edition- 2018)

Houston, Texas

Responsibilities and Accomplishments:• Assist clients with a variety of administrative and judicial IRS controversies throughout southeast Texas. • Conduct administrative appeals for denial of various tax credits, including innocent spouse and earned income credits. • Submit requests for audit reconsideration. • Assist clients through the IRS collection process and remove social security and wage levies. • Conduct financial analyses and establish hardships to the IRS to obtain reasonable collection alternatives for my clients. • Educate client community and pro bono practitioners regarding federal tax matters through outreach program focused on veterans, senior citizens, and limited English proficiency individuals. • File litigation in United States Tax Court appealing denials of earned income tax credits, innocent spouse protection and asserting the insolvency exception to claiming cancellation of debt income.• Successfully defended client in audit proceedings. • Presented CLEs regarding The Innocent Spouse and Separation of Joint and Several Liability.Presentations:• Houston Volunteer Lawyers’ Tax Seminar (Moderator)- May 2015• Tax Liabilities from Before, During, and After Marriage- May 2015• The Innocent Spouse and Separation of Joint and Several Liability- August 2011

Houston, Texas

Responsibilities and Accomplishments:• Assisted in various client matters, including food stamp appeals, SSI, Social Security and TANF denials. • Performed research and policy work regarding unreasonable state delays in responding to unemployment insurance appeals and other benefit denials. • Drafted and filed a lawsuit seeking to improve access to indigent healthcare in Galveston County as co-counsel. Presentations:• Public Benefits for the Domestic Violence Victim- January 2010

New Orleans, Louisiana

Responsibilities and Accomplishments: • Researched state and federal wage laws. • Drafted motions, petitions, and represented clients in state court to ensure that the clients received their back wages. • Acted as a curator in a divorce proceeding. • Participated in client intakes with Catholic Charities’ Wage Claim Clinic.

Hammond, Louisiana

Responsibilities and Accomplishments:• Prepared drafts of wills, Affidavits of Death, Domicile and Heirship, Affidavits of Judgment and Possession, and pro se petitions. • Performed intake interviews with potential clients. • Contacted and assisted potential clients with legal paperwork needed to complete their Louisiana Road Home applications. • Researched Medicare Prescription Drug Plans and Louisiana bond for deed law.

Ll.M., Tax Law/Taxation

J.D., Law

Activities and Societies: Loyola University Law Clinic, Workplace Justice ProjectHonors: • Certificate for the Highest Grade in Federal.

B.A., Comparative Religion And Political Science

Honors: • Academic Scholarship • Oxford Scholar