Howard Richshafer Bio

Howard Richshafer joined Wood + Lamping in 2008, and his practice is focused on civil and criminal tax problems, estate planning and probate, tax court trial work, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate business matters. Howard is also a licensed Ohio CPA (inactive). Over the past 40 years, Howard has represented clients experiencing all types of civil and criminal tax problems with IRS. Those problems include IRS audits, IRS criminal investigations, enforced collection of unpaid tax liabilities involving levies, liens, and seizures of assets and income. From 1968 to 1978, Howard served as an IRS agent with the United States Treasury Department. As a federal IRS agent, Howard held numerous technical and managerial positions. For the past 45 years, Howard has taught as an Adjunct Professor of Taxation in the University of Cincinnati’s Lindner College of Business. He taught six advanced federal tax courses in both the undergraduate and graduate curriculums. In May 2017, he received the Lindner College’s “Outstanding Professor in Tax and Accounting” award for more than 35 consecutive years as an Adjunct Professor of Taxation. Howard was recently selected by his peers for inclusion in the 25th Edition of The Best Lawyers in America© for his work in Litigation and Controversy — Tax and Tax Law and has consecutively been recognized since 1999 — over 26 consecutive years. He was also recognized as the 2013, 2014, and 2017 Tax Litigation and Controversy “Lawyer of the Year” for Cincinnati. Only a single lawyer in each practice area and community is honored with a “Lawyer of the Year” award. In December 2021, Howard spoke about “Ethics for Tax Practitioners” at the Cincinnati Bar Association Tax Institute Conference, and, the 54st University of Cincinnati Income Tax Conference.