Careers | NYU School of Law

Join our team! The Tax Law Center at NYU Law seeks to protect and strengthen the tax system through rigorous, high-impact tax legal work in the public interest. Our work includes offering technical input on tax legislation, submitting comments on tax regulations, and intervening in tax litigation, with the goals of protecting and improving the integrity of the tax system, saving and raising revenues, and advancing equity.

You will be an employee of New York University, with access to an excellent, comprehensive benefits package including generous paid time off and retirement contributions.

The Tax Law Center has physical office space at NYU School of Law in New York, but also offers hybrid or remote work arrangements from within the US.

Current Opportunities

Leadership Roles

Legal Director

The Tax Law Center at the NYU School of Law seeks a Legal Director to work closely with the Executive Director to lead the Center’s rigorous, high-impact tax legal work in the public interest. As the Center’s most senior tax law specialist, the Legal Director will help shape and build the Center’s program and public interest role in tax law, working with and further building an exceptional tax legal staff.

You are a tax lawyer with extensive experience in US federal tax law or policymaking processes and a deep commitment to advancing equity through taxation. You are excited to help develop, lead, and supervise the Center’s substantive work program across a broad range of issue areas spanning: legislation, regulation, and controversy aimed at shaping law and policy and strengthening the processes and institutions that make tax law. You have excellent tax legal skills and are a clear, persuasive writer and communicator.

Responsibilities 

The Legal Director, who will report to the Executive Director, will be responsible for: 

Helping to set the Tax Law Center’s strategy and craft its work agenda. This will include leading the design and implementation of systems for identifying and prioritizing projects that best further the Center’s mission. 
Driving the Center’s work forward. This includes contributing to original work, managing the Center’s legal staff, and building collaborations with external partners.
Ensuring that the Center’s work is consistently rigorous, coherent, and mission-driven. The Legal Director will supervise program work to ensure that it meets the Center’s high -quality standards, and is coherent and consistent with the Center’s mission, body of work, and future plans. The Legal Director will be responsible for approving certain legal work, developing processes for quality control and evaluating impact, and ensuring this learning improves future work.
Shaping and communicating the Center’s positions. The Legal Director will shape the Tax Law Center’s substantive positions; communicate with stakeholders including policymakers; build relationships with external experts and partners, the Center’s advisory board, funders, and media; and review funding proposals.

Depending on experience and background, the Legal Director would also be responsible for:

Managing the Tax Law Center’s legal staff (including Senior Attorney Advisors, Attorney Advisors and Fellows). The Center has already attracted exceptional legal staff in a number of areas. The Legal Director will identify and hire for needed skills and perspectives; supervise and mentor a collaborative and inclusive team; and strengthen internal practices for skill-building, professional development, and current awareness.

Requirements 

A commitment to advancing the mission of the Center. 
JD or equivalent and extensive experience working on US federal tax law and policy. 
At least ten years of legal tax experience.
Deep expertise in tax law, plus a desire and demonstrated ability to work widely across different tax issue areas (ranging from, for example, individual taxation to corporate taxation), and across different aspects of tax law (legislation, regulation, controversy, and processes/institutions). We do not expect candidates to be expert across all aspects of tax, but are looking for an interest in and demonstrated ability to: quickly understand issues outside of areas of your direct expertise; be briefed by and make judgments based on input from staff and external experts; and draw connections between work in different issue areas in order to execute a coherent work program.
Excellent judgment about how to navigate and weigh complex and uncertain policy and procedural considerations. This means the capacity for effective decision-making, as well as the ability to understand competing concerns and solve problems of substantial impact, sensitivity, and complexity.
An extensive track record of developing and maintaining strong working relationships with tax experts, such as tax practitioners, tax academics, or government tax practitioners.
Demonstrated skill in furthering equity in operational and substantive work.
Excellent communication skills, including ability to draft and review a range of outputs including draft legislation, regulations, comments, briefs, and reports; and the ability to communicate with both technical expert audiences and those who are less familiar with a specific issue.

Desired: These skills and experiences are a plus. If they are not part of your current skills or experience, you must be excited to develop knowledge and skill in these areas:

A track record in managing and developing staff, experience in hiring, and an ability to nurture a collaborative and inclusive work environment.
Experience in tax controversy or considering administrative law issues and related trends in tax; and
Experience across more than one aspect of government, private practice, tax academia, or other modes of tax research or policy development, or other experiences that provide deep insight into more than one set of institutions that play a role in tax law/policymaking.

In compliance with NYC's Pay Transparency Act, the annual base salary range for this position is between $205,000 to $230,000 per year. New York University considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/training, key skills, internal peer equity, as well as market and organizational considerations when extending an offer. You will be an employee of New York University, with access to an excellent, comprehensive benefits package including generous paid time off and retirement contributions. 

The Tax Law Center has physical office space at NYU School of Law in New York, but also offers hybrid or remote work arrangements from within the US. As a key leadership position, the Legal Director may be expected to travel on occasion.

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Specialist Tax Attorney Roles

We are actively recruiting for tax lawyers to focus in the following areas:

Attorney Advisor or Senior Attorney Advisor – Litigation

The Tax Law Center at the NYU School of Law is seeking a full-time Attorney Advisor OR Senior Attorney Advisor, based on experience, with expertise in litigation or tax controversy. This role will  report to the Director of Litigation work closely with the Director of Litigation and other senior staff members to contribute to rigorous, high-impact tax legal work in the public interest.  

You are an attorney with some experience in litigation, especially related to administrative law, or tax controversy, or in working in US federal government processes of crafting, interpreting, administering, or adjudicating tax issues. You are excited to work closely with academics, legal practitioners, and policymakers to advance racial and economic equity in taxation.

You are an excellent writer of legal briefs, and of other products including memos, and comments on regulations and legislation. You are excited to dive into technical tax issues.

You are a highly organized project manager and a clear communicator, able to manage production of high-quality, timely written work, and exercise judgement about where to focus time and resources to have robust input in fast-moving tax law and policy processes. 

Experience in both litigation and tax is highly desired, however we will consider applicants with strong litigation experience especially in administrative law but without deep experience in tax subject matter.

Responsibilities

The Attorney Advisor, who will report to the Director of Litigation or another senior member of staff, will be responsible for duties including: 

In consultation with the Director of Litigation, helping to shape an ongoing litigation/controversy work agenda, including maintaining an overview of strategic opportunities and threats to the integrity of the tax system.
Conducting legal research and authoring a variety of written products called for in that agenda, including amicus briefs as well as reports, memos, and explainers on issues at the intersection of tax and administrative and constitutional law.
Collaborating with other Tax Law Center staff on projects that implicate administrative and/or constitutional law issues, such as comments on rulemaking.
Maintaining current knowledge of relevant administrative and constitutional law issues in tax through research and participation in conferences and other events.
In consultation with the Director of Litigation, assisting in the implementation of a system to identify, flag, track, and prioritize opportunities for the Center to further its mission in these areas, as well as in the production of written products.
Supervising research assistants and/or fellows in tasks related to the above responsibilities, such as discrete research projects, legal writing, and tracking litigation priorities.
In consultation with the Director of Litigation, helping build strong, confidential relationships with high-level practitioners, academics, and other outside experts, and managing their input in shaping this work.

In addition to the responsibilities listed for the Attorney Advisor above, Senior Attorney Advisors will be responsible for: 

Helping the Director of Litigation to set the agenda in the area of litigation and tax controversy for the Tax Law Center. 
Providing strategic guidance to the Director of Litigation and other senior team members. 
Supervising and mentoring Tax Law Center staff.

Requirements

JD or equivalent and current admission to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States, the highest court of a state, another United States court of appeals, or a United States district court (or willingness and ability to gain or regain such admission prior your start date).
Some US experience practicing or working on issues involving administrative or constitutional law, including some litigation or controversy experience. Some experience with federal appellate litigation is highly desired but not required.
Experience in tax subject matter is highly desired but not required, but applicants without tax experience must have strong litigation experience and must be able to demonstrate interest and aptitude for understanding tax technical subject matter in a controversy context.
Strong legal research and writing skills, including the ability to express precise, highly technical information in a way that is clear and compelling. 
Excellent communication skills. 
A commitment to the mission of the Center. 
For Senior Attorney Advisors, good judgment about how to navigate and weigh complex and uncertain legal, policy, and strategic considerations.

Applicants must provide a writing sample, preferably fully original work (i.e., prior to edits from others). Applicants should include a brief description of the writing sample that indicates the extent to which the writing is original.

Prior experience managing staff is a plus but is not required, but you need to be excited to develop these skills.  

In compliance with NYC's Pay Transparency Act, the annual base salary range for an Attorney Advisor position is between $150,000 and $190,000 per year depending on experience. The annual base salary range for a Senior Attorney Advisor position is between $175,000 and $205,000 per year depending on experience. 

New York University considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/training, key skills, internal peer equity, as well as market and organizational considerations when extending an offer. You will be an employee of New York University, with access to an excellent, comprehensive benefits package including generous paid time off and retirement contributions. You will be an employee of New York University, with access to an excellent, comprehensive benefits package including generous paid time off and retirement contributions.

The Tax Law Center has physical office space at NYU School of Law in New York, but also offers hybrid or remote work arrangements from within the US.

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Attorney Advisor or Senior Attorney Advisor – Transfer Tax Specialist

The Tax Law Center at the NYU School of Law is seeking a full-time Attorney Advisor OR Senior Attorney Advisor, based on experience, with expertise in federal gift, estate, and generation skipping-transfer taxation. This role will work closely with the Executive Director and other senior staff members to contribute to rigorous, high-impact tax legal work in the public interest.

You are an attorney with experience practicing US transfer tax law or working in US federal government processes of crafting, interpreting, or administering transfer tax law, and are excited to work closely with academics, legal practitioners, and policymakers to advance racial and economic equity in taxation. You are an excellent writer of rigorous technical tax materials, such as reports, memos, briefs, comments, or legislation and regulations. You are a highly-organized project manager and a clear communicator, able to manage production of high-quality, timely written work, and exercise judgement about where to focus time and resources to have robust input in fast-moving tax law and policy processes.

Responsibilities

The Attorney Advisor, who will report to the Executive Director or another senior member of staff, will be responsible for duties including:

In consultation with other senior staff, helping to shape an ongoing research agenda in the areas of gift, estate, and generation skipping transfer taxation for the organization, and authoring a variety of technical tax written products called for in that agenda, including reports, briefs, and comments on regulations in the transfer tax space.
Supervising a Research Associate in the production of a series of written products, ensuring the quality and timeliness of work from outside authors.
Helping to design and implement systems to identify and prioritize opportunities for the Center to further its mission.
Building strong, confidential relationships with high-level practitioners, academics, and other outside experts.

In addition to the responsibilities listed for the Attorney Advisor above, Senior Attorney Advisors will be responsible for:

Helping to set the agenda in the areas of gift, estate, and generation skipping transfer taxation for the Tax Law Center.
Providing strategic guidance to the Executive Director and other senior team members.
Supervising and mentoring Tax Law Center staff.

Requirements

JD or equivalent and some US experience practicing or working on issues involving federal gift, estate, and generation skipping transfer taxes or transfer tax policy making or administration.
Strong legal research and writing skills, including the ability to express precise, highly technical information in a way that is clear and compelling.
Excellent communication skills.
A commitment to the mission of the Center.

For Senior Attorney Advisors, good judgment about how to navigate and weigh complex and uncertain policy and procedural considerations

Prior experience managing staff is a plus but is not required, but you need to be excited to develop these skills.

You will be an employee of New York University, with access to an excellent, comprehensive benefits package including generous paid time off and retirement contributions.

The Tax Law Center has physical office space at NYU School of Law in New York, but also offers hybrid or remote work arrangements from within the US.

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If you have experience in another aspect of tax, or have broad experience across a number of issue areas of tax, please apply to our general tax attorney postings below.

Non-Legal Roles

The following role does not require a law degree, such as a JD, LLM, or equivalent.

(Senior) Economist/ Policy Advisor

The Tax Law Center at the NYU School of Law is seeking one or more full-time (Senior) Economist/Policy Advisor to work closely with the Executive Director to contribute to rigorous, high-impact tax legal work in the public interest.

The Tax Law Center is staffed primarily with 11 tax legal attorneys who bring rigorous legal expertise to inform high-stakes decisions across tax legislation, regulation, and litigation. This opening is for the sole specialist policy or economic analyst on staff, who will play a key role in helping to ensure that the Center’s tax legal work is shaped and supported by sound analysis and understanding of the relevant economic and policy context.

You are a tax economist or tax policy expert with experience working on shaping, interpreting, or administering, US federal tax law or policy. You are excited to work closely with academics, legal practitioners, and policymakers to advance racial and economic equity in taxation. You are an excellent writer of rigorous technical tax materials, such as reports, memos, briefs, comments, or legislation and regulations. You are a highly-organized project manager and a clear communicator, able to manage production of high-quality, timely written work, and exercise judgement about where to focus time and resources to have robust input in fast-moving tax law and policy processes.

Responsibilities

The (Senior) Economist/Policy Advisor, who will report to the Executive Director or another senior member of staff, will be responsible for duties including:

In consultation and collaboration with other senior staff, providing analysis and research to help shape and inform work such as comments on proposed administrative action, legal briefs, legislative language, and policy memos.
Analyzing the implications of high-stakes tax law decisions in the legislative, regulatory, and litigation spaces.
Building strong, confidential relationships with high-level practitioners, academics, and other outside experts
Helping to design and implement systems to identify and prioritize opportunities for the Center to further its mission

For the Senior Economist/Policy Advisor role:

Providing strategic guidance to the Executive Director and other senior team members, informed by experience or existing networks or relationships
Supervising and mentoring Tax Law Center staff

Qualifications

Requirements

BA, BS, or equivalent and some US experience in federal tax policy making or administration
Strong legal research and writing skills, including the ability to express precise, highly technical information in a way that is clear and compelling
Excellent communication skills
A commitment to the mission of the Center

Prior experience managing staff is a plus but is not required, but you need to be excited to develop these skills. 

Your salary will fall between $110,000 and 150,000 per year for the Economist/Policy Advisor role, or $150,000 and $190,000 per year for the Senior Economist/Policy Advisor role, depending on experience. You will be an employee of New York University, with access to an excellent, comprehensive benefits package including generous paid time off and retirement contributions. 

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Two-Year Fellowship Roles (Entry Level)

Tax Law and Policy Fellow

Description

Join our team at The Tax Law Center at NYU Law! Our work includes offering technical input on tax legislation, submitting comments on tax regulations, and intervening in tax litigation, with the goals of protecting and improving the integrity of the tax system, saving and raising revenues, and advancing equity.

Position Description

The Tax Law Center at the New York University School of Law is seeking one full-time Tax Law and Policy Fellow to Tax Law Center staff with research, writing, and project management. The fellow will work across subject matter areas in tax. The fellow will be able to work with senior staff to focus in on any area(s) of specialty in their second year if there is specific subject matter interest and as work needs allow.

You are a recent law school graduate with a strong interest in advancing justice through the tax code, and gaining experience working with experts including academics, policymakers, and practitioners to solve difficult legislative and regulatory problems.

This is a two-year fellowship with case-by-case flexibility on exact start and end dates, with the general expectation that students graduating in 2025 will begin in late summer 2025. The two-year span of this fellowship is anticipated to fall across an eventful period in tax law and policy, with the potential for major tax legislation at the end of 2025; significant regulatory and other administrative action due to continued implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act; and increasing administrative and constitutional law controversies in the courts with potential impacts across the tax system.

Responsibilities

The Tax Law and Policy Fellow will be responsible for a wide range of activities in a four-year old Center including:

Researching and drafting comments on proposed administrative action, legal briefs, legislative language, and policy memos, with guidance from senior members of staff.
Tracking important legislative and regulatory activities and key court cases.
Building productive working relationships with outside experts and policymaking staff.
Working alongside Center staff to help build out and improve organizational processes.

The fellow will work across subject matter areas in tax. This may include work on tax legislation, regulations or other administrative decision-making, and controversy, and in varied subject matter areas including: individual and corporate taxation, climate tax credits, administrative law, information reporting and financial transparency, and international law.

While you will get to work with a range of subject matter experts and colleagues, you will report to a single supervising attorney who will act as your main point of contact for workflow and professional development.

Requirements

A JD degree or LLM with coursework in taxation
Excellent research and writing skills
Excellent communication skills
A high degree of organization and attention to detail
A commitment to advancing the Center’s goals

The Tax Law Center has posted a recording of an informational session about the Tax Law and Policy Fellow role to our site here: https://www.law.nyu.edu/centers/tax-law-center/careers/fellows. Please feel free to email taxlawcentercareers@nyu.edu with any questions that you may have about the position. For equity purposes, questions and answers will also be cross-posted to this page as well.

In compliance with NYC's Pay Transparency Act, the annual base salary range for this position is $95,000 to $110,000. New York University considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/training, key skills, internal peer equity, as well as market and organizational considerations when extending an offer. You will be an employee of New York University, with access to an excellent, comprehensive benefits package including generous paid time off and retirement contributions. Alongside NYU benefits, the Tax Law Center offers flexible policies and support for early career lawyers, including access to professional development, time off support for desired relevant Volunteer Income Tax Assistance or Low Income Tax Clinic volunteering, and membership to professional and bar associations.

The Tax Law Center has physical office space at NYU School of Law in New York, but also offers hybrid or remote work arrangements from within the US.

Application Instructions

You will be asked to upload a resume.

Please do not upload a cover letter; instead, you will be asked to provide brief answers to three short questions as part of the application form. This questionnaire will be assessed in a semi anonymized process, which means that the Tax Law Center will review your responses without connecting them to your name, resume details, or other personal information at the time of assessment.

We will have a priority deadline for applicants who submit their questionnaire by September 30, 2024, guaranteeing review of your application in early October.

After September 30, applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled.

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General Tax Attorney Roles

Please note that Attorney Advisor roles are for those with some years of relevant experience, and Senior Attorney Advisor roles are for those with significant experience working on US federal tax law and policy.

Attorney Advisors

The Tax Law Center at the NYU School of Law is seeking one or more full-time Attorney Advisors to work closely with the Executive Director to contribute to rigorous, high-impact tax legal work in the public interest

You are an attorney with experience practicing US tax law or working in US federal government processes of crafting, interpreting, or administering tax law , and are excited to work closely with academics, legal practitioners, and policymakers to advance racial and economic equity in taxation. You are an excellent writer of rigorous technical tax materials, such as reports, memos, briefs, comments, or legislation and regulations. You are a highly-organized project manager and a clear communicator, able to manage production of high-quality, timely written work, and exercise judgement about where to focus time and resources to have robust input in fast-moving tax law and policy processes.

Responsibilities

The Attorney Advisor, who will report to the Executive Director or another senior member of staff, will be responsible for duties including:

In consultation with other senior staff, helping to shape an ongoing research agenda for the organization, and authoring a variety of technical tax written products called for in that agenda, including reports, briefs, and comments on regulations
Supervising a Research Associate in the production of a series of written products, ensuring the quality and timeliness of work from outside authors
Helping to design and implement systems to identify and prioritize opportunities for the Center to further its mission
Building strong, confidential relationships with high-level practitioners, academics, and other outside experts

Requirements

JD or equivalent and some US experience in tax practice or federal tax policy making or administration
Strong legal research and writing skills, including the ability to express precise, highly technical information in a way that is clear and compelling
Excellent communication skills
A commitment to the mission of the Center

Prior experience managing staff is a plus but is not required, but you need to be excited to develop these skills.

In compliance with NYC's Pay Transparency Act, the annual base salary range for this position is $150,000 and $190,000. New York University considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/training, key skills, internal peer equity, as well as market and organizational considerations when extending an offer. You will be an employee of New York University, with access to an excellent, comprehensive benefits package including generous paid time off and retirement contributions.

The Tax Law Center has physical office space at NYU School of Law in New York, but also offers hybrid or remote work arrangements from within the US.

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Senior Attorney Advisors

The Tax Law Center at the NYU School of Law is seeking one or more full-time Senior Attorney Advisors to work closely with the Executive Director to contribute to rigorous, high-impact tax legal work in the public interest

You are an attorney with significant experience in the federal tax policy making process and a deep commitment to advancing racial and economic equity through taxation. You are a clear, persuasive writer and communicator, and are excited to draft legislation, regulations, and comments in addition to briefs, technical reports, and less-technical white papers and blog posts. You have deep relationships in tax law and policymaking.

Responsibilities

The Senior Attorney Advisor, who will report to the Executive Director, will be responsible for:

Helping to set the agenda for the Tax Law Center, including helping to lead the design and implementation of a system for identifying and prioritizing opportunities for the Center to further its mission
Playing a core role in driving forward the Center’s ongoing regulatory work, coordinating and collaborating with outside experts, performing quality control, helping supervise the work of an Attorney Advisor and a Research Associate, and contributing your own original written work Interfacing with policymakers and staff, and connecting them with academic and practitioner experts
Providing strategic guidance to the Executive Director and other senior team members
Supervising and mentoring Tax Law Center staff

Requirements

JD or equivalent and significant experience working on US federal tax law and policy
A track record of developing and maintaining strong working relationships with tax technical experts, such as federal government tax staff and tax practitioners
Deep subject matter expertise
A commitment to advancing the mission of the Center.
Good judgement about how to navigate and weigh complex and uncertain policy and procedural considerations

Prior experience managing staff is a plus but is not required, but you need to be excited to develop these skills.

Your salary will fall between $175,000 and $205,000 per year depending on experience. You will be an employee of New York University, with access to an excellent, comprehensive benefits package including generous paid time off and retirement contributions.

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