Attorney Profile

George S. Isaacson

George Isaacson

Brann & Isaacson
184 Main Street, PO Box 3070
Lewiston, ME 04243
Contact Contact George S. Isaacson
T: 207-786-3566
F: 207-783-9325

Visit: www.brannlaw.com
Practice areas: Business Litigation (50%), Tax (50%)

Profile

Mr. Isaacson represents direct marketers and electronic merchants throughout the United States in connection with state sales, use and income tax matters, as well as regulatory issues.  He is tax counsel to the Direct Marketing Association and has represented the DMA in the filing of amicus curiae briefs in state and federal courts throughout the country, including the United States Supreme Court, regarding various tax matters.

Selected to:

New England Super Lawyers 2009

About George Isaacson

Admitted: 1973, Maine

Professional Webpage: www.brannlaw.com/person.php?pid=11

Honors and Awards: New England Super Lawyers; The Best Lawyers in America.
Bar/Professional Activity: Maine (1973); Massachusetts (1973); U.S. Supreme Court; U.S. Court of Appeals, First, Fifth, Nine and Eleventh Circuits; U.S. Tax Court; U.S. District Court, District of Maine; Maine State and American (Legal Education and Taxation Sections) Bar Associates; Maine Bar Foundation; Steering Committee of National Tax Association Project on Taxation of Electronic Commerce; Former Member, Maine Advisory Committee on Rules of Evidence; Former member, State Advisory Committee to U.S. Civil Rights Commission; Former Member, First Circuit Court of Appeals Advisory Committee on Rules of Evidence; Pine Tree Legal Assistance.
Pro bono/Community Service: Trustee, MaineHealth; Trustee, Maine Public Broadcasting System; Former Trustee, Maine Medical Center; Former Chair, Bowdoin Summer Music Festival; Casinos No! Executive Committee; Former Director, Livermore Falls Trust Company; Former Director, Maine Partners Health Plan (HMO).
Scholarly Lectures and Writings: Member, Advisory Board, CCH Sales and Use Tax Alert; Adjunct Faculty Member - Constitutional Law, Bowdoin College; speaker before Promotional Marketing Association of America, National Institute for State and Local Taxation, Institute on Federal Taxation, New York State Society of CPAs, The Conference Board (Conference on Advanced e-Commerce Tax Policy), Committee on State Taxation (COST), Tennessee Tax Structure Study Commission, Multistate Tax Commission and the American Bar Association; author Catalog Success “Catalogers’ Legal Challenges ’07 (and Beyond); State Tax Notes: “A Promise Unfulfilled: How The Streamlined Sales Tax Project Failed to Meet Its Own Goals for Simplification of State Sales and Use Taxes,” Matthew Bender “A Tax Whose Time Has Passed? Sales and Use Tax In An Electronic Commerce Environment,” Journal of International Affairs “A Constitutional Crisis In Canada: Confronting the Prospect of Quebec Secession.”
Representative Clients: L. L. Bean, Inc., Direct Marketing Association, Reader’s Digest, Scholastic Book Clubs, Barnes & Noble, Talbot’s, Vermont Teddy Bear, Crutchfield Corporation, PC Connection.
Other Outstanding Achievements: Testimony Before U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, “The Wrong Path to Tax Reform: How Parochial State Interests Undermined The Streamlined Sales Tax Project” (December, 2007); Testimony Before United States Senate Finance Committee Subcommittee on International Trade, “Why the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement is Fundamentally Flawed and Does Not Justify jeopardizing Core American Principles of Federalism and Free-Flowing Interstate Commerce” (July, 2006); Testimony Before United States House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, “A Promise Unfulfilled: How The Streamlined Sales Tax Project Failed to Meet Its Own Goals for Simplification of State Sales and Use Taxes” (October, 2003).
Educational Background: Bowdoin College (B.A., cum laude, 1970); University of Pennsylvania Law School (J.D., 1973)
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