Anton L. Janik, Jr.

Counsel

Bar Admissions: Arkansas, Colorado
Language(s): English, Russian

Education

B.A. Middlebury College, 1995
J.D. University of Denver, 2003, Order of St. Ives
LL.M. in Taxation, Georgetown University Law Center, 2007
Admitted to practice in Colorado
Admitted to practice in Arkansas
United States District Court, Eastern and Western  Districts of Arkansas
United States Tax Court
United States Supreme Court

Professional Experience

Mr. Janik leads the Tax Controversy and Litigation practice on behalf of Mitchell Williams and serves as a member of the Government Investigations, Enforcement & White Collar Crime and the Information Management & Security teams.

He represents corporations, partnerships, and high net worth individuals before county, state and federal taxing authorities, at whatever procedural step matters arise—including the planning and developmental stage, during the administrative process at federal, state and local examination and appeals, through the various alternative dispute resolution programs, and through litigation in state courts, as well as the Tax Court, the Federal District Court and the Court of Federal Claims, including appeals to the United States Courts of Appeal and the United States Supreme Court.

His Government Investigations practice includes defending corporations and persons during state and federal governmental investigations and litigation.  His eDiscovery practice includes extensive experience in managing large-sized eDiscovery projects.  One recent effort includes leading a team of dozens of attorneys, paralegals, and staff members, including contract attorneys in several states, in the review of hundreds of millions of pages of documents to meet a very short court imposed deadline.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Janik was a Trial Attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. Mr. Janik joined the Department of Justice through the Tax Division's Honors Program. While at the Department of Justice, Janik represented the Internal Revenue Service and practiced in the federal district and bankruptcy courts throughout the Ninth and Tenth Circuits. His practice included the litigation of tax shelters, tax-exempt corporate status, "responsible officer" cases arising under the Section 6672 Trust Fund Recovery Penalty, IRS administrative summonses including those involving the Offshore Credit Card Project and the Section 7609(f) "John Doe" provisions, asset valuation, nominee asset transfers, IRS collections due process appeals, judicial foreclosures, quiet title actions, and various issues arising from proofs of claim and dischargeability claims in the bankruptcy courts.

Mr. Janik was awarded the U.S. Attorney General's Outstanding Attorney Award in both 2005 and 2006.

Other Activities

Adjunct Professor, UALR College of Business
Board Member, Arkansas Zoological Foundation
Board Member, Downtown Little Rock Partnership (Chairman, Safety Subcommittee)
Vice Chairman, Harvesters, Arkansas Foodbank Network
Member, UAMS Consortium
Member, Arkansas Children's Hospital Foundation Professional Advisory Council
Senior Tax Controversy Advisor, THE TAX LAWYER (2006-2007)
Staff Editor, Denver University Law Review
Managing Editor, Denver Journal of International Law and Policy

Publications

Prosecuting al Qaeda: America's Human Rights Policy Interests Are Best Served By Trying Terrorists Under International Tribunals, 30 Denv. J. Int'l. L. & Pol'y 498 (2002)

Combating the Illicit Internet: Decisions by the Tenth Circuit to Apply Harsher Sentences and Lessened Search Requirements to Child Pornographers Using Computers, 79 Denv. U. L. Rev. 379 (2002).