FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TAX THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1995 (202) 616-2765 TDD (202) 514-1888 FALLON NAMED CIVIL LITIGATION DEPUTY FOR TAX DIVISION WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Claire Fallon, who started as a trial attorney in the Tax Division 22 years ago, has been named Deputy Assistant Attorney General in charge of Civil Litigation for the Tax Division. Fallon, a 1970 graduate of Boston College Law School, has been Chief of the Division's Civil Trial Section, Central Region, since 1988. "Claire Fallon has had a distinguished career in the Tax Division, successfully handling a wide variety of complex and difficult litigation," said Assistant Attorney General Loretta C. Argrett of the Tax Division. "The Tax Division is fortunate to have as one of its leaders someone with such remarkable talent, energy and enthusiasm." After two years of private practice following her graduation from law school, Fallon joined the Tax Division in 1972 as a trial attorney representing the government in a broad range of civil litigation. In 1980, she joined the Division's Office of Legislation and Policy as Senior Legislative Attorney, and in 1983, she moved over to the Division's newly-formed Office of Special Litigation as a senior trial attorney. In that position, Fallon participated in a federal litigation initiative spearheaded by the Internal Revenue Service and the Tax Division to pursue civil remedies to halt the activities of promoters and salesmen of abusive tax shelters. Fallon was named assistant chief of the Office of Special Litigation in 1984. Following passage of the Tax Reform Act of 1986, the focus of the Office of Special Litigation shifted to a broader range of civil tax litigation and it was named "Civil Trial Section, Central Region." The Division's civil litigation activities include suits to determine the liabilities of taxpayers, to foreclose federal tax liens, to obtain judgments against delinquent taxpayers, to enforce IRS administrative summonses, and to establish tax claims in bankruptcy, among other things. Fallon, who received her A.B. from Emmanuel College in Boston, is a member of the Massachusetts bar. ##### 95-156