Paula M. Junghans has more than 30 years of experience in federal tax litigation and white collar criminal matters. She has the unique perspective of having served both as a defense lawyer and a supervising prosecutor, and having tried both civil and criminal cases throughout the United States.

At Zuckerman Spaeder LLP, Ms. Junghans maintains a diverse litigation and trial practice. In addition to tax controversies, Ms. Junghans has represented persons involved in a wide array of federal criminal investigations and prosecutions involving conspiracy, mail and wire fraud, bank fraud, health care fraud, currency transactions, environmental crime, and money laundering.

As a prosecutor and Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Tax Division of the Department of Justice, she supervised the litigation of tax cases throughout the United States. In her current practice, she draws on her experience in tax procedure, as well as in the interrelationship between criminal and civil tax issues, to counsel individuals and businesses on complex investigations and prosecutions.

Ms. Junghans co-authored a treatise on federal tax litigation and is a frequent speaker and writer on matters involving tax procedure and white collar crime. She is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, the American College of Tax Counsel, and is listed in The Best Lawyers in America, Who's Who Legal: The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers, and Washingtonian magazine’s “30 Best Lawyers.”