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THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1995                           (202) 616-2765
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      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.
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