Jack Cummings is a member of Alston & Bird’s Federal Income Tax and State & Local Tax Groups. He has extensive experience in corporate merger and reorganization tax issues as well as state and local tax litigation. He has served as Associate Chief Counsel (Corporate) of the Internal Revenue Service in Washington, D.C.

Jack was chair of the Corporate Tax Committee of the American Bar Association Tax Section for 1997-1998. He serves on the advisory board of the D.C. Bar, Tax Section, Corporate Tax Committee. In addition, Jack is a frequent speaker and author on taxation topics, including authoring “Cummings’ Corporate Tax Insights,” an RIA Checkpoint electronic newsletter, and “What Were They Thinking,” a column in Tax Notes. He and Robert Hanson authored A Selective Analysis of the 2004 JOBs Act, published by Warren Gorhan & Lamont in 2005. Jack is listed in The Best Lawyers in America and Super Lawyers magazine.

Jack received his J.D. in 1971 from Yale Law School and his A.B., summa cum laude, in 1968 from Duke University. He received the LL.M. in taxation from New York University in 1987.