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Steven A. Dimengo

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Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLP

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3800 Embassy Parkway, Suite 300
Akron, OH 44333
Phone: 330-258-6460
Firm Website: http://www.bdblaw.com
Firm Phone: 330-376-5300

Listed in Best Lawyers since 2003.

Attorney Bio

  • Joined the Firm as an Associate attorney in 1989 and was elected a Partner in 1994.
  • Presently Serves as Department Head of the Taxation Section of the Business Practice Group (2009-present; also served 1995-2006).
  • Business Practice Group Leader (2006-2008).
  • Served as Vice President and Secretary of the firm’s Board of Managers (2008-2009) and as Vice President and Treasurer of the Board (2000-2004).
  • Practice primarily includes consultation and representation with respect to Federal and Ohio tax law matters.
  • Routinely engaged to structure proposed transactions in a manner to obtain optimum tax minimization.
  • Actively involved in representation before the Ohio Tax Commissioner, Board of Tax Appeals of Ohio and the Ohio Supreme Court, as well as before the Internal Revenue Service.

    • Practice Areas

    • Commercial Litigation
    • Tax Law (Consulting, Corporate, Income Tax, Partnership, State and Local Tax, Subchapter S Corporations, Tax Assessment, Tax Disputes, Tax Planning)

    Lawyer of the Year

    Education

    • The University of Akron (BA) (1983)
    • The University of Akron (MA) (1986)
    • The University of Akron School of Law (J.D.) (1986)

    Bar Admissions

    • Ohio, United States

    Organizations & Affiliations

    • The University of Akron Master of Taxation Program (State and Local Tax) — Adjunct Professor
    • Ohio Tax Commissioner's Advisory Council (2001-2003) — Appointed
    • Archbishop Hoban High School — Secretary/Trustee
    • American Bar Association — Member
    • Ohio State Bar Association — Member (Chair: Taxation Section, including Sales & Use Tax Subcommittee 1995 – present)
    • Akron Bar Association, Taxation Section — Member

    Awards

    • Listed in Northern Ohio Live – Ohio’s Top Lawyers for 2003.
    • Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® (2003 – 2013).
    • Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating of AV® Preeminent™, which is the highest possible rating in both legal ability and ethical standards as established by confidential opinions from members of the Bar.
    • Named “Akron Best Lawyers Tax Law Lawyer of the Year” (2012).
    • Recognized by Inside Business Magazine since 2001 as a Leading Lawyer in Northeast Ohio in Tax Law, as voted by his peers.
    • Recognized in the 2009 Corporate Counsel Edition of Super Lawyers® for Tax Law.
    • Selected for inclusion in Ohio’s Super Lawyers® (2004-2012), as voted by his peers.