Rebecca L. D. Gordon

Rebecca Gordon is a skilled litigator who leads Arnold & Porter’s fiduciary litigation and tax controversy practice.

Rebecca represents clients in estates and trusts disputes throughout the country. Her work includes challenges to wills and trust agreements on the basis of undue influence, incapacity or fraud, handling conflicts between co-trustees, managing disputes over trust management or the disposition of trust property, and advising individual and corporate fiduciaries and beneficiaries in trust and estate administration. She also regularly assists in both internal or government-related investigations of public charities and private foundations regarding, among other matters, fiduciary duties and governance. Rebecca routinely represents estates under Internal Revenue Service (IRS) audit and in all types of litigation.

Rebecca’s tax controversy practice includes assisting corporations, partnerships and individuals in IRS audits and proceedings before the IRS Independent Office of Appeals and various state taxing authorities, as well as the United States Tax Court and state and federal trial and appellate courts. She advises clients on all types of tax-related matters, including foreign asset reporting and penalty assessments.