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Joe Hull
Partner
Assistant
Patricia Turner512.494.3613
With more than four decades of experience, Joe Hull's legal practice concentrates on federal, state and local taxation, including both planning and controversy work. Mr. Hull has substantial experience representing clients in tax matters in many industries, including real estate; oil, gas and petrochemical; financial; aerospace; equipment leasing; public finance; and high tech and telecommunications. Mr. Hull’s additional areas of practice are real estate development and finance, transactions, syndications and REITs; equipment leasing; partnerships and limited liability companies; general business planning and formation, acquisitions and reorganizations; nonprofit entities; and tax-exempt financing.
State and local matters have included corporate income and franchise taxes, including unitary, allocation and apportionment issues; property taxes; sales and use taxes; city business taxes; utility user taxes; environmental taxes; transfer taxes; unclaimed property and escheat laws; and other excise taxes.
Mr. Hull joined Bracewell & Giuliani LLP as a partner in 1998, after 28 years of practice in Los Angeles.
Publications and Speeches
Co-author, "Handling the IRS and Managing a Layoff," Executive Legal Adviser.
Co-author, "Representing Start-Up Companies," West.
"Texas Chapter," American Bar Association, Section of Taxation, Sales and Use Tax Deskbook.
Contributor and editor, Journal of Multistate Taxation.
Education
J.D., The University of Texas School of Law, 1969
B.A., The University of Texas at Austin, 1966
Bar Admissions
California
Texas
Court Admissions
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Tax Court
Affiliations
State Bar of Texas
Chair 1995-1997, Vice Chair 1993-1995 of the Committee on State and Local Taxes, American Bar Association, Section of Taxation
Houston Tax Roundtable
California Taxpayers' Association, Board of Directors, 1992-1998
Los Angeles County Bar Association, Section of Taxation, State and Local Tax Committee, Chair; Executive Committee
State of California Trade and Commerce Agency, Capital Formation Panel, Former Member
Noteworthy
Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, Tax , 2004-2010
US Legal 500, Tax, 2007-2009
Best Lawyers in America, Tax Law, 2008-2011
Super Lawyers, Corporate Counsel Edition, 2009
Texas Super Lawyers, 2006-2009
Texas Law Review
