Professor Jacqueline Lainez

Jacqueline Laínez
Assistant Professor of Law
Director, Low Income Taxpayer Clinic (LITC)

B.A., College of New Jersey; J.D., The John Marshall Law School.

Jacqueline Laínez is the founding director of the School of Law's Low Income Taxpayer Clinic (LITC) which opened its doors in January 2006. Professor Laínez has specialized in tax law since graduating from law school. She began as an associate writer analyst in the state tax department at CCH Incorporated/Wolters Kluwer. She also worked as a volunteer tax preparer while at CCH. After two years of providing volunteer tax compliance and controversy assistance to low income workers, she joined the Center for Economic Progress as the Midwest Tax Clinic's Assistant Director. The Midwest Tax Clinic and the UDC-DCSL LITC are two of over 150 federally funded tax clinics under the IRS LITC grant program. At the Midwest Tax Clinic she carried her own caseload and managed an average of 30 volunteer attorneys and accountants, handling an average of 300 cases a year. Prior to joining the law faculty, Professor Laínez worked in private practice and simultaneously served as an attorney consultant for the Center for Economic Progress in Chicago.

Since joining the faculty, Professor Laínez has worked with local community organizations including the DC EITC campaign, CARECEN and CentroNía to provide tax outreach services to low income and ESL taxpayers. The LITC is also working with pro bono attorneys in establishing the Ethiopian Outreach Project to advise Ethiopian and African immigrants of their rights and responsibilities under the Internal Revenue Code. Professor Laínez focuses her work and scholarship on the rights of - and the effect of the tax code upon - low income and immigrant workers. Professor Laínez is currently enrolled in the Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Taxation program at the Georgetown University Law Center.

PUBLICATIONS

“To File or Not to File: Tax Compliance Among Undocumented Workers,” American University Washington College of Law, Business Law Brief, Forthcoming, Spring 2007

Contributing Author, Comments on OIC Procedures, Tax Notes Today, October 6, 2006
206 Tax Notes 29 (2006)

Co-Author, The IRS Individual Taxpayer Identification Number: An Operational Guide to the ITIN Program, April 2004, Published by the Center for Economic Progress, underwritten by the Annie E. Casey Foundation

PRESENTATIONS

Current & Historical Issues in Immigration Law, Moderator, UDC – David A. Clarke School of Law, March 14, 2007

Perceptions of Racism, Moderator, UDC – David A. Clarke School of Law, November 9, 2006

Tax Court Strategies, Panelist, National IRS LITC Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, December 6, 2006

Navigating the Labyrinth: Low Income Taxpayers and the IRS, Moderator and Panelist (panel presented in two separate sessions), National Community Tax Coalition Annual Conference, Chicago Illinois, June 2005

ITIN Policy and Outreach Issues, Moderator, National Community Tax Coalition Annual Conference, Chicago Illinois, June 23, 2004

The IRS Individual Taxpayer Identification Number: Questions and Guidance, Panelist, Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, Annual Summit, Chicago, Illinois, November 2003

Contact
E-mail: jl484law.georgetown.edu

Low-Income Tax Clinic