Overview
Richard F. Riley, Jr. is a partner and business lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP. Mr. Riley’s practice focuses on tax-exempt and nonprofit organizations; taxation of insurance companies; taxation of railroad companies; employment and withholding taxes; and tax litigation at the administrative, trial, and appellate level. He is a member of the firm’s Taxation Practice.
Representative Experience
- Ongoing representation of one of the nation’s largest tax-exempt social welfare organizations on tax and tax exemption issues
- Representing a major nationwide tax-exempt industry before the Internal Revenue Service and in successful federal tax refund actions, in connection with unrelated business income tax liability
- Representing property & casualty insurers in litigation to defend their loss reserve deductions against IRS challenge, and addressing other complex P&C insurance company tax issues
- Lead attorney in a successful $30 million refund suit involving the railroad retirement tax liability of a Class I railroad’s intermodal subsidiary; plus continuing litigation and counseling on railroad retirement tax matters for railroad companies and public transit agencies
- Continuing work for a wide variety of educational organizations, religious organizations, private foundations, social welfare organizations, trade associations, and other tax-exempt and nonprofit organizations in all facets of their operations
Recognition
Mr. Riley has been Peer Review Rated as AV® Preeminent™, the highest performance rating in Martindale-Hubbell's peer review rating system.
Affiliations and Professional Memberships
He is a member of the American Bar Association Section of Taxation, Federal Bar Association Tax Section, and the District of Columbia Bar Tax Section. Mr. Riley is active in the Exempt Organizations Committee of the ABA Section of Taxation and serves as a subcommittee co-chair. He was a founding member of the J. Edgar Murdock American Inn of Court at the United States Tax Court. He also serves on the board of directors of The Riley Foundation, a grant-making charitable foundation in Mississippi.
Education
Mr. Riley received his undergraduate degree at Yale University (B.A., magna cum laude, 1980) and is an honors law graduate of Duke University School of Law (J.D. 1983).