Elizabeth P. Nevle

Elizabeth Nevle is an associate and litigation attorney in the Houston office of Foley & Lardner LLP.  She is a member of the firm’s Business Litigation & Dispute Resolution and Government Enforcement Defense & Investigations Practices.  She originally joined Foley in 2019 as a summer associate.

Elizabeth focuses her practice in tax controversy, in addition to a broad range of commercial litigation matters.  She assists clients in tax controversy matters at the administrative, trial, and appellate levels.  Elizabeth has gained significant experience practicing in a wide range of state tax matters.  Elizabeth is currently enrolled at New York University to obtain her LL.M in Taxation. 

She was also a student attorney for the Low Income Taxpayer Clinic at South Texas College of Law Houston.

Recognition

• Awarded, The Jim Alfini/Hans Lawton Award and The Christopher Breen Memorial Award for Advocacy
• Honored, Dean’s List and Order of Lytae
• Recipient, Dean’s Merit Scholarship, Lizabeth Parham Matthews Scholarship, Imogen S. Papadopoulos Scholarship, and Houston Bar Association Alternative Dispute Resolution Scholarship
• Champion, National Sports Law Negotiation Competition, National Moot Court Regional Competition, and Judge Sharon S. McCally Moot Court Competition
• Best Brief, American Bar Association Regional Competition, National Moot Court Regional Competition, and Wagner Moot Court Competition 

Presentations

• Co-Presenter, Chicago Tax Club, What Ever Happened to Allocable Income?, (November 9, 2022)

Publications

• Author, “Tales of the Crypt: Global Trends in the Taxation of Cryptocurrency,” 24.2 Currents: JIEL 116 (2021) 
• Co-author, “Contract Interpretation Issues,” 42^nd Annual Advanced Civil Trial Course (2019)

Education

• South Texas College of Law Houston (JD, summa cum laude, 2021)
  • Editor in Chief, CURRENTS: Journal of International Economic Law
  • Research Assistant, Professor Kevin Yamamoto
  • Student Attorney, Low Income Tax Clinic
  • Langdell Scholar, Contracts and Federal Income Taxation

• University of Houston (BS, 2015)
  • Major, Political Science

Professional Memberships

• Member, Houston Bar Association, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee
• Member, National Asian Pacific American Bar Association 
• Member, Asian American Bar Association of Houston 

Admissions

• Texas
• United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas
• United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas
• United States District Court for the Western District of Texas
• United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas