Chase Sizemore, JD, LLM
Principal, Chase Counsel PLLC
Georgetown Tax LLM | Former KPMG Auditor
Admitted to U.S. Tax Court | Graduate Studies, Columbia University
National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) Diploma
30+ Years of Legal Experience
FEDERAL TAX CONTROVERSY | NONPROFIT | CROSS-BORDER U.S. LAW
Attorney Chase Sizemore brings more than thirty years of legal and advisory experience, with advanced training in tax law and accounting. He earned an LLM in Taxation from Georgetown University Law Center, previously worked as an auditor at KPMG, and is admitted to practice before the United States Tax Court. He completed graduate studies in nonprofit law, management, and accounting at Columbia University, received trial-advocacy training through the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA), and has nearly two decades of professional experience in Asia, including South Korea and China.
Outside conventional legal practice, Attorney Sizemore founded and leads Teach Them To Fish Foundation, an international nonprofit supporting primary education in Cambodia and Uganda. His humanitarian service has been recognized with the U.S. Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award, the Royal Order of Cambodia, and eight Cambodian Sthapana Cheat Gold Medals.
His writing includes Nonprofit Stewards, a practitioner-focused treatise on nonprofit governance, tax-exempt organizations, and fiduciary responsibility.
Georgetown University Law Center
Brigham Young University Law School
Columbia University
College of William & Mary
Practice Areas
Chase Counsel PLLC concentrates on three principal areas of United States law. Select an area below for additional information.
Representation in serious federal tax controversies, including IRS examinations and Appeals, civil tax penalties, substantial collection matters, U.S. Tax Court proceedings, refund litigation, and criminal tax investigations.
Learn MoreCounsel on nonprofit governance, tax-exempt status and compliance, board and founder matters, charitable giving, fiduciary duties, and related federal tax issues.
Learn MoreCounsel on United States legal and federal tax matters involving international organizations, transactions, charitable activities, and individuals.
Learn MorePublications
Practitioner-focused articles and commentary on federal tax controversy, nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations, and cross-border U.S. law.
Forthcoming Book
Governance, Fiduciary Duty, and Accountability in Tax-Exempt Organizations
By Chase Sizemore, JD, LLM
Nonprofit Stewards examines nonprofit governance, fiduciary duties, tax-exempt organizations, board oversight, donor stewardship, and institutional accountability.
Drawing upon decades of legal practice, advanced tax training, and firsthand experience founding and operating an international nonprofit organization, Nonprofit Stewards explores the legal and practical responsibilities of nonprofit leaders, directors, fiduciaries, and advisors.
The manuscript is currently undergoing professional line editing.
Nonprofit & Tax-Exempt Organizations
A practical examination of the new federal group-exemption regime, including eligibility requirements, central-organization responsibilities, subordinate organizations, annual reporting, and transition issues for existing group rulings.
ForthcomingFederal Tax Controversy
A practitioner-focused guide to preparing an effective administrative protest, developing the factual record, identifying disputed issues, presenting legal authorities, and positioning a federal tax controversy for resolution before the IRS Independent Office of Appeals.
Read ArticleCross-Border U.S. Law
An examination of the U.S. sanctions issues counsel should consider in international transactions and operations, including OFAC screening, blocked persons, general and specific licenses, due diligence, documentation, and compliance risk.
ForthcomingImmigration & Global Mobility Matters
A practical analysis of how mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, and changes in corporate ownership or control can affect U.S. immigration status, petitions, qualifying corporate relationships, and employer obligations.
ForthcomingIn 2006, Chase Sizemore founded Teach Them To Fish Foundation, Inc., an international nonprofit organization supporting primary education in rural Cambodia and Uganda and serving more than 3,000 students. Two decades of responsibility for nonprofit governance, compliance, donor stewardship, contracting, budgeting, and international operations inform the firm's practical approach to nonprofit and tax-exempt organization matters.
Learn More About Teach Them To Fish Foundation and visit the Foundation's Facebook page.
Attorney Chase Sizemore
during humanitarian work at Kanyanga Primary School in Bukedea District, Uganda.
Preah Khol Primary School -- Opening Ceremony
Preay Vihear Province, Cambodia
Out of years spent building schools in Cambodia and Uganda came these memoirs, where the work of Teach Them To Fish Foundation became entangled with individual lives, unexpected obligations, and journeys no one had planned.
A Memoir of Cambodia, Uganda, and the Search for a Child Lost to War
The Road to Kitgum recounts Teach Them To Fish Foundation's work building primary schools in remote Cambodia and Uganda, with a focus on educating girls at risk for exploitation.
Established by Chase Sizemore in 2006, the Foundation began with a school for 380 children in Battambang Province, Cambodia. It later expanded into Uganda, where children faced poverty, disease, violence, and the aftermath of civil war.
At Kanyanga Primary School, a student's note leads Chase into the search for Akiki, a boy abducted years earlier by the Lord's Resistance Army and believed to be injured in an internally displaced persons camp near Kitgum. The search takes Chase through displacement camps and disputed territory in a dangerous rescue effort to find a child who had been taken by war and nearly lost to memory.
The Road to Kitgum is a story of compassion, courage, and the power of education to bring hope to children the world has too often forgotten.
Forthcoming Memoir
A Memoir of Cambodia, Mercy, and the Cost of Rescue
Where the Red Earth Broke continues the journey begun in The Road to Kitgum, returning to Cambodia and to the villages where building a school could begin with little more than a promise.
The memoir follows the building of Omaneash and O'Russey primary schools and the search for a remote jungle site that would become Preah Khol Primary School. Along the way, the work draws Chase deeper into the lives of children and families confronting poverty, exploitation, and the threat of human trafficking.
But the journey carries a personal cost. During a trip into the Cambodian jungle, Chase suffers a life-threatening medical collapse. What began as another effort to reach a village becomes a struggle to survive and, eventually, to make his way home.
The manuscript is currently undergoing developmental editing.
Inquiries
Chase Counsel PLLC accepts inquiries from individuals, businesses, tax-exempt organizations, fiduciaries, accounting professionals, other counsel, and wealth managers concerning federal tax controversies, nonprofit and tax-exempt matters, trusts and fiduciary obligations, selected immigration and global mobility matters, and cross-border matters involving United States law.
Preliminary referral discussions with attorneys, CPA firms, trust and estate professionals, and other professional advisors are welcomed.
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