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Bruce P. Ely, J.D., LL.M.
Bruce P. Ely Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP One Federal Place 1819 Fifth Avenue North Birmingham, AL 35203 bely@bradley.com 205-521-8366 (w) Bruce is Co-Chair of the State and Local Tax Practice Group and a partner in the Birmingham, Alabama office of the multistate law firm of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP (www.bradley.com). The Practice Group represents taxpayers before various state and local government departments of revenue as well as the circuit and appellate courts of Alabama, Tennessee and Mississippi. He serves as Alabama correspondent for State Tax Notes and a member of the editorial advisory boards for the Journal of Business Entities and Bloomberg BNA's Multistate Tax Report. Mr. Ely is a long-time Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel, Co-Chair of New York University's Institute on State and Local Taxation, and has been listed for a number of years in "Best Lawyers in America" and "Super Lawyers." He was the first recipient of the NYU/Paul H. Frankel Award for Outstanding Achievement in State and Local Taxation, in December 2013. Over the past 34 years he has co-authored numerous reform bills related to taxpayer rights and appeals procedures, state and local sales, use and business license taxes, corporate income tax and pass-through entities. He is past Chair of the Alabama State Bar Tax Section and currently serves as Chair of its Legislative Review Committee. He is a member of both the AICPA and ABA task forces working with the Multistate Tax Commission and various states on the appropriate state response to the new federal partnership audit/assessment rules. Mr. Ely is co-author of two Bloomberg BNA Tax Management portfolios dealing with choice of business entity issues, as well as a series of articles and charts on the state tax treatment of LLCs and LLPs. He is also a contributing author of "Keatinge & Conaway on Choice of Business Entity" published by West/Thomson Reuters, and Professor Richard Pomp's 2 volume set of teaching materials entitled "State & Local Taxation." He is a frequent lecturer for the ABA Tax Section, COST, and various state and local tax institutes and also serves as an adjunct graduate faculty member at the University of Alabama's Culverhouse School of Accountancy. Bruce received both his B.S. degree in Accounting and J. D. (with honors) from the University of Alabama and his LL.M. in Taxation from New York University School of Law.
