Sherwin P.Simmons chairs the Tax Group of Steel Hector & Davis LLP and is a senior partner in the areas of tax law, personal and family wealth planning, executive compensation and employee benefit planning.

Mr. Simmons has received national recognition for his work in tax and estate planning law, including being named as one of the country's outstanding estate planning attorneys by Town & Country magazine and serving as chair of the American Bar Association Section of Taxation and of the American College for Tax Counsel.

He has handled hundreds of tax cases at all levels of the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Justice, including field audits, office audits, administrative appeals and collection. He has tried deficiency tax cases before the United States Tax Court and refund suits before the Court of Federal Claims and the federal district courts, and has argued tax appeals in the circuit courts. Additionally, Mr. Simmons has handled many criminal tax audits and controversies, beginning with the field examinations and continuing through the various appeals to the Criminal Investigation Division and the IRS District Counsel as well as the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice.

Mr. Simmons lectures frequently at national, major regional and various local tax, estate planning and compensation seminars, including those sponsored by the ALI-ABA, American Bar Association, the American Association of Individual Investors and the American College of Tax and Estate Counsel. He has authored almost 800 books and articles on tax law in a variety of tax, business and estate planning publications, including: Federal Taxation of Life Insurance, The REA Book, Taxes in Focus. He has also served as the chair of the board of editors for the Journal of Estate Planning and on the board of advisors for "The Tax Times."

Currently, Mr. Simmons chairs the ABA Commission on Multidisciplinary Practice which has issued a report recommending changes to the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct to allow attorneys, within limits, to form professional services firms with nonlawyers to provide professional services, including legal services, to clients.