Benjamin L. Tompkins

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Top Rated Family Law Attorney in Mission Woods, KS

Business Law, Gaming

2000 Shawnee Mission Pkwy, Ste. 210, Mission Woods, KS 66205

About Benjamin L. Tompkins

Practice Areas

Education

The George Washington University Law School, Washington, District of Columbia
Honors: Member of the Order of the Coif
- Honors: Executive board member of the Trial Court Board
- Honors: With High Honors
- Law Review: The George Washington Law Review, Editor
Pepperdine University in Malibu, California
Honors: cum laude
- Major: History
- Major: Political Science

Classes and Seminars

Panelist, Legal Issues Unique to Medical Marijuana, CBD Oil and Cultivation of Cannabis (May 2019)
Panelist, Criminal Prosecution of Employment Tax Cases, 35th Annual National Institute on Criminal Tax Fraud and 8th annual National Institute on Tax Controversy (December 2018)
Presenter, Nuts & Bolts of a Criminal Tax Case: From Investigation to Sentencing (Oct. 2018 – KCMBA Tax Committee)
Panelist, KCMBA’s 45th Annual Bench-Bar & Boardroom Conference, Cryptocurrencies: Evolving IRS, CFTC, SEC and DOJ Legal and Regulatory Issues (2018)
Panelist, Johnson County Bench Bar, Bankruptcy and Criminal Law — Strange Bedfellows: An examination of criminal consequences for bankruptcy studying the 2017 U.S. v Lindemuth acquittal (2018)
Participant, Criminal Tax Workshop, 34rd Annual National Institute on Criminal Tax Fraud and 7th Annual National Institute on Tax Controversy (2017)
Panelist, USD School of Law – RJS Law Tax Controversy Institute, Criminal Tax Workshop – Negotiating a Plea Agreement, Departures, Adjustments, Sentencing Memoranda, and Strategies at Sentencing (2016)
Panelist, Local U.S. Trustee Office Bankruptcy Fraud Working Group, U.S. Attorney Office Bankruptcy Fraud Updates (2016)
Instructor, National Advocacy Center, Civil Trial Advocacy Course (2013, 2014 and 2015)
Presenter, IRS Employee Webinar, Best Practices for Civil Tax Return Preparer Injunction Referrals (2014)
Instructor, National Advocacy Center’s Civil Trial Advocacy Course

Bar Admissions

Other Affiliations

American Bar Association, Tax and Litigation Section (Member)
American Bar Association, Cryptocurrency subcommittee for the Criminal Litigation Committee (Chair)
Federal Bar Association, Tax, Litigation and Criminal Law Section (Member)
Kansas City Metro Bar Association, Tax Committee (Vice-Chair)

Past Positions

Hon. Stephen H. Glickman of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, Judicial Law Clerk
U.S. Attorney’s office and Department of Justice Tax Division
Los Angeles and Department of Justice Tax Division Trial Attorney, Assistant U.S. Attorney

Published Works

Benjamin Tompkins, Department of Treasury and IRS’s March 5, 2019 Policy Statement: New Policy or More of the Same, Inside Basis (Spring 2019)
Benjamin Tompkins, United States v. Coinbase: One Year Later, American Bar Association Criminal Litigation Section (Feb. 6, 2019)
Benjamin Tompkins, Amendments Give Incentive to Whistleblowers (2018 TXN 15-7), Tax Notes, 179 (April 9, 2018)
Benjamin Tompkins, 18 Things to Know about the New Tax Act for 2018, Association for Women Lawyers of Greater Kansas City e-newsletter (March 2018)
Benjamin Tompkins and Andrew Alexander with Hon. J. Thomas Marten, Tips from the Bench: Cross-Examination, American Bar Association (Feb. 26, 2018)
Benjamin Tompkins, Doing More with Less: 2018 IRS-CI Enforcement Priorities (2018 TXN 8-9), Tax Notes, 1039 (Feb. 19, 2018)
Benjamin Tompkins, Coinbase customers could soon find themselves in IRS cross-hairs, Accounting Today (Dec. 8, 2017)

Benjamin L. Tompkins

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