Julie Bradlow, Moore & Van Allen, Charlotte, NC
Julie Bradlow serves as Counsel within Moore & Van Allen’s Federal & International Taxation
and State & Local Taxation groups. Ms. Bradlow’s practice and background encompasses
federal, state and international tax planning, tax controversy, and employee benefits and
executive compensation. She currently advises companies in the manufacturing, financial
services and energy sectors, and brings her broad based subject matter and practical experience
to bear to solve complex problems for her clients.
Ms. Bradlow has served as in-house tax counsel at Fortune 500 aerospace and transportation
companies, where she advised on a wide variety of federal, state and international tax and
employee benefits matters, including planning, controversy and litigation, multi-national
acquisitions, restructurings and divestitures, corporate treasury matters, and executive
compensation.
Ms. Bradlow earned her B.A. from Yale University and her J.D. from the University of Chicago
Law School. She also has attended executive education programs at Duke University’s Fuqua
School of Business and the Aresty Institute of Executive Education at the Wharton School of the
University of Pennsylvania. She began her legal career as a law clerk to the Honorable Michael
S. Kanne, a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
Amy Nelson, Ernst & Young, LLP, Charlotte, NC
Experience
Amy is a Charlotte-based Senior Manager with more than 12 years of experience in
public accounting, with a focus in federal and state employer tax credits over the last
nine years. She has experience with the implementation and delivery of various
statutory credits projects, including: enterprise and empowerment zone tax credits;
employee training grants, job creation and investment tax credits; and the Work
Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) program.
She has teamed with client tax and HR personnel to integrate and reengineer existing
WOTC processes when succeeding previous tax credit providers and during business
reorganizations. Amy has spent the most recent two years working with client tax and
HR personnel to determine overall readiness for the employer mandate of the
Affordable Care Act, and recently joined EY’s National Tax Practice as a dedicated
member of the Affordable Care Act service team.
Education and professional affiliations
 Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Exercise & Sport Science from the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 Master of Accounting from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 Certified Public Accountant licensed in North Carolina
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Amy Nelson | Senior Manager | Affordable Care Act Services, Ernst & Young, 704-331-1920
Alex Sadler, Ivins, Phillips & Barker, Washington, D.C.
Alex Sadler is a partner of Ivins, Phillips & Barker in Washington, DC (www.ipbtax.com), one
of the few law firms in the United States dedicated exclusively to the practice of federal tax law.
Alex specializes in representing taxpayers in tax litigation and administrative controversies. He
was formerly a Trial Attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice, Tax Division, Civil Trial
Section, where he was awarded the Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award for his
work on corporate tax shelter trials and the Tax Division’s Outstanding Attorney Award. Alex
currently serves as the chair of the D.C. Bar’s Tax Audits and Litigation Committee. Alex is the
author of the treatise Legal Guide to the Research Credit (2014-2015 edition), published by
Thomson Reuters®. Alex has litigated tax cases in the United States Tax Court, Court of Federal
Claims, and U.S. District Courts and Courts of Appeal and resolved many cases without
litigation. Based on client feedback Alex has been ranked in Chambers USA since 2010. Alex
received his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law.
Les Schneider: Ivins, Phillips & Barker, Washington, D.C.
Leslie J. Schneider
Mr. Schneider is one of the leading attorneys in the United States
in the area of tax accounting and inventories. He is one of the managing partners in the
Washington, D.C. law firm of Ivins, Phillips & Barker, which represents a significant number of
Fortune 500 companies. Formerly, Mr. Schneider was the Special Assistant to the Assistant
Secretary for Tax Policy at the Treasury Department. Earlier, he served as an Attorney-Adviser
in the Treasury’s Office of Tax Legislative Counsel. In addition, Mr. Schneider was an Adjunct
Professor of Income Tax Accounting in the Graduate Tax Program at Georgetown University
Law Center. Mr. Schneider graduated from Georgetown University Law Center, where he
served as an editor of the Law Journal. He is also a member of the Bars of the District of
Columbia and Maryland and a certified public accountant. Mr. Schneider is the author of the
three-volume treatise entitled Federal Income Taxation of Inventories which is published by
Matthew Bender.
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