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Thompson & Knight's tax attorneys provide comprehensive tax planning and compliance advice to individuals and all types of business entities and organizations. In addition to his law practice, Stanley takes great pride in his involvement with the Taxation sections of both the State Bar of Texas and the American Bar Association and believes service to the Tax Bar is a vitally important responsibility of every tax lawyer.
Mr. Hughes has argued a number of cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. Court of Appeals, advised congressional committees and administrative agencies regarding tax laws, and represented public companies such as American Airlines and Electronic Data Systems.



Internationally, we regularly represent clients who are expanding into new territories, and have accordingly developed a sophisticated cross-border M&A practice that includes advice concerning transnational joint ventures and a wide variety of construction projects.
Dr. Galvin membership in professional organizations incudes the State Bar of Texas; Texas Bar Foundation; Texas Supreme Court Historical Society; Dallas Bar Association; Dallas Bar Foundation; American Bar Association; American Bar Foundation; American Law Institute; American Judicature Society, United States Supreme Court Historical Society; American Tax Policy Institute; Southwestern Legal Foundation; Section of Taxation of the American Bar Association; Texas Society of CPAs and the Dallas Chapter of CPAs; and the Philosophical Society of Texas.

When attorneys begin the planning process, they consider your objectives, your family relationships, charitable inclinations, and the relationship of federal and state estate tax, gift tax, and generation skipping transfer tax laws to these objectives.
Our goal is to lead clients efficiently and professionally through the ever-changing maze of tax issues and ensure that existing or contemplated financial affairs of clients are structured in a practical and cost-effective manner that achieves business or personal objectives with minimal exposure to tax.

While we regularly counsel individuals on these issues, our main focus is on employers: large and small, closely held, and public companies engaged in a variety of pursuits, including oil and gas, banking, steel, cement, hotel and hospitality services, distribution, retail, manufacturing, and charitable and other tax-exempt activities.
He is the President of the North Texas chapter of the American Academy of Attorney-CPAs, Chair-elect of the Board of Directors for the TXCPA-Dallas, a former executive board Lawyers member of the Texas Society of CPAs (TXCPA), and former Young CPA of the Year in the State of Texas (an award given to only one CPA in the state of Texas under 40).