Mr. August has served as chair and co-chair of the tax law departments of two Am Law 200 law firms and as a partner in both national and regional tax law firms and in a tax litigation boutique. He now announces the opening of August Tax Law, P.C., located in Blue Bell, PA, a suburb of Philadelphia located near Valley Forge, PA.

For the past five years, Mr. August served as Co-Chair of the International Tax and Wealth Planning Group for Fox Rothschild, LLP. Before Fox, he was a partner at two national tax law firms: Houston- based Chamberlain Hrdlicka and Kostelanetz & Fink in New York City. Mr. August was the majority shareholder in the tax law firm of August, Kulunas, Dawson & Siegel, P.A., in West Palm Beach, Florida, which he started in 1988 after serving as co-chair of the Tax Department of the Miami-based firm of Steel Hector & Davis. In 2005, he merged his firm with Fox Rothschild and worked from the firm’s Philadelphia and West Palm Beach locations. He spent 10 years as a partner and co-chair of the Taxation and Wealth Planning Department and chair of the firm’s Tax Opinions Committee of Fox Rothschild before joining Kostelanetz & Fink. Per the photos on the home page, Mr. August continues to represent major clients from South Florida, the Philadelphia tri-state area, and New York.

Education

• University of Pennsylvania Wharton School (B.S. Finance, B.A. Political Science, 1974)
• University of Pittsburgh School of Law (J.D., 1977)
• New York University School of Law (LL.M. in Taxation, 1980)

Editor-in-Chief

• Corporate Taxation (a/k/a Journal of Corporate Taxation), Warren, Gorham & Lamont, the leading journal of its kind in the U.S.; also published on RIA Checkpoint & WESTLAW
• Columnist on Cross-Border Tax Developments

Memberships

• American Bar Association, Tax Section
  • Former Vice Chair;
  • Editor-in-Chief of The Tax Lawyer, the leading law review on U.S. taxation
• American College of Tax Counsel
• American College of Trust and Estate Counsel
• American Law Institute, Life Sustaining Member
  • The Practical Tax Lawyer, Chair, Editorial Board
  • Consultative Groups for the Restatement of the Law on Corporate Governance, Conflicts of Laws, Trusts, Wills, Entity Taxation
  • Advisor to ALI on Tax Law Programs and Frequent Moderator and Speaker
• American Tax Policy Institute
• Florida Bar Association
  • Palm Beach County Bar Association
• New York State Bar Association
• Pennsylvania Bar Association
  • Director, Tax Section
  • Vice-Chair, International Law and Comparative Law Section
  • Montgomery, Chester and Philadelphia County Bar Associations
• United States Tax Court
• United States Supreme Court
• United States Court of Federal Claims

Board of Advisors

• New York University Federal Institute of Taxation (1994-present)

Honors & Awards

• Selected to the “Best Lawyers in America” list for Tax Law, Trusts & Estates Law (1993-2024) and Litigation & Controversy – Tax (2011-2024) in Philadelphia, PA and New York, NY by Best Lawyers
• Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent Rating (1990-present)
• Selected to the “Super Lawyers” list for Tax in Pennsylvania (2006-2024)