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Davis & Kuelthau’s Hollander gets all the tax pieces to fit

Davis & Kuelthau’s Hollander gets all the tax pieces to fit

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Courtney Hollander (Staff photo by Kevin Harnack)
Courtney Hollander (Staff photo by Kevin Harnack)

Courtney Hollander can’t remember when she didn’t want to be an attorney. But it wasn’t until she took a class on tax law at the University of Wisconsin School of Law that she found her focus.

“Tax law is very challenging and it is connected to so many other areas. Everyone has to deal with taxes at some point,” said Hollander, an attorney with Davis & Kuelthau’s corporate team in Oshkosh.

Hollander finds tax law intellectually challenging and that’s part of the attraction.

“It’s very complex and makes you think. It’s like putting a puzzle together,” she said. “There’s always something new going on, so you need to stay on your toes. It’s incredibly interesting.”

Taxes can be a touchy area for some people and Hollander has learned all her clients react differently to what she has to say.

“Everyone’s emotions are different when it comes to taxes and that can be challenging,” she said. “You’re not sure how they’ll respond to what you’ll say.”

In addition to tax-related issues, she handles a variety of business law cases, including transactions.

While a law school student, Hollander worked as a student attorney for the University of Wisconsin’s Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic. There, she worked with entrepreneurs, providing them with business planning and tax compliance advice.

“That work helped prepare me for my practice and was rewarding,” Hollander said.

Wisconsin Law Journal: What makes your work important to you?
Courtney Hollander: I like to feel challenged by the work I do and know I add value to a client’s particular legal need.

WLJ: What do you do outside of work to deal with stress from the office?
Hollander: You can reliably find me in the audience of a Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra concert, baking a dessert whose recipe is the culinary equivalent of a complicated tax provision, or reading the current or a past issue of ‘Lapham’s Quarterly.’

WLJ: What’s one thing many people get wrong about what you do?
Hollander: Like most tax attorneys, I am constantly answering ‘yes’ to the ‘So you actually like tax law?’ question.

WLJ: What’s your favorite memory from law school?
Hollander: I was the very first person called on in my very first law school class — the rest is history.

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