Experience
Carol L. Lew is nationally recognized for her work on federal income tax issues relating to tax-exempt debt financing. She has a great deal of related expertise in financial transactions and nonprofit issues, and more than 21 years of experience practicing federal tax law relating to municipal finance.

Ms. Lew received her J.D., magna cum laude, in 1986 from the University of California, Hastings College of Law, where she was inducted into the Order of the Coif and the Thurston Society. She received her B.A., summa cum laude, from California State University, Northridge, in 1983.

Special Honors and Memberships
Ms. Lew is a past president of the National Association of Bond Lawyers, having previously served as President, chair of its 2000 Tax Seminar and as a member of the steering committee for its Bond Attorneys Workshop. She is a previous chair of the American Bar Association’s Taxation Section's Tax Exempt Financing Committee and vice chair of that committee. She has served on the executive committee of the State Bar of California’s Taxation Section, as Editorial Chief of Federal Taxation of Municipal Bonds, and on the Technical Advisory Committee of the California Debt Investment Advisory Commission.