Ian L. Atkinson

Ian Atkinson is a partner in our Litigation Section. He is an experienced trial and appellate lawyer, whose varied practice includes commercial litigation, white collar criminal defense, and tax litigation.

In his civil practice, Ian represents both plaintiffs and defendants in all manner of commercial litigation. He is a recent and welcome addition to the firm’s sophisticated plaintiff-oriented practice, where he focuses on suits involving financial misconduct, fiduciary breaches, and a range of other subject areas.

As a criminal defense attorney, Ian advises clients on complex white-collar matters, including health-care fraud, tax, money laundering, wire and mail fraud allegations, and other investigations. Ian also represents professionals and students in disciplinary and misconduct proceedings.

In his tax practice, Ian represents the Louisiana Department of Revenue in lawsuits seeking to recover corporate income, franchise, and sales taxes from the state’s largest taxpayers. Ian also helps clients develop strategies to resolve compliance concerns, federal tax deficiencies, civil audits, criminal investigations, and IRS litigation.

As a former federal law clerk at both the trial and appellate levels, Ian remains an active member of the federal bar. Ian is a long-serving member of the Federal Bar Association – New Orleans Chapter Board of Directors and former chair of the local chapter’s criminal division. He previously served on the Federal Magistrate Judge Selection and Reappointment Committee and has served on the Court’s Criminal Justice Act Panel, representing indigent clients, for over a decade.

Ian graduated as a member of the Order of the Coif at the University of Virginia School of Law. While in law school, Ian was a law review member and student attorney for the United States Supreme Court Litigation Clinic. After law school, Ian clerked for the Honorable Sarah S. Vance of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana and the Honorable Edith Brown Clement of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Ian recently received his L.L.M. in Taxation from New York University School of Law.