Megan L. Brackney concentrates her practice in the areas of tax controversies, and civil and white collar criminal litigation.  Ms. Brackney received her J.D. from the University of Kansas School of Law and her LL.M. in Taxation from New York University.  Prior to joining Kostelanetz & Fink, LLP, Ms. Brackney was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.  Ms. Brackney is a member of the New York State Bar Association Tax Section’s Executive Committee, a Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel, a former Council Director for the American Bar Association Section of Taxation, and the former Chair of the Taxation Committee of the New York County Lawyers’ Association.  Ms. Brackney annually contributes to the two-volume ABA publication, Effectively Representing Your Client Before the IRS and is a regular columnist for the “Tax Controversy Corner” of The Journal of Passthrough Entities, and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Taxation and The Tax Lawyer.  Ms. Brackney has been recognized by New York Super Lawyers” since 2012.