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Jim Richardson is a partner and currently leads the firms' municipal bond federal tax controversy practice. He also currently chairs the firm's task force with respect to the effects of Treasury Circular 230. He has been involved in a wide variety of tax-exempt municipal financings throughout his practice at Chapman and Cutler LLP since 1969, as bond counsel, underwriter's counsel, trustee's counsel and counsel to bond investors. His practice has concentrated on most types of conduit bonds, including particularly environmental projects for public utilities, both nuclear and conventional, and single family housing bonds. During the decade following the adoption of the Tax Reform Act of 1986, his practice was substantially devoted to workouts and restructuring of various tax-exempt bond issues, representing institutional investors and trustees, dealing with legal issues involving creditors' rights, municipal bankruptcy and related federal tax matters. | 