Dechert partner appointed chair of ABA tax section

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Dechert partner appointed chair of ABA tax section

The American Bar Association (ABA) has named Dechert partner Michael Hirschfeld chair of its Section of Taxation.

Hirschfeld has served as chair-elect for the past year and will assume the position of chair at the ABA’s annual meeting in San Francisco on August 9 2013.

The ABA’s Section of Taxation is the US’s largest organisation of tax lawyers, with more than 23,000 members in the US.

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