The POWER List: Justin K. Gelfand

Staff Report//April 25, 2022//

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Margulis Gelfand, St. Louis

Justin Gelfand began his career in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Tax Division through the Attorney General’s Honors Program. Based in Washington, D.C., he spent four years prosecuting federal criminal cases, winning each of the 13 federal fraud jury trials he first-chaired.

Gelfand also was a faculty member at the National Advocacy Center, the DOJ’s legal academy, where he taught criminal tax matters to federal prosecutors and trained agents how to investigate cases involving fraudulent tax refunds obtained through stolen identities.

In 2013, he received the Attorney General’s Award for Fraud Prevention, which honors work in the field of white-collar and public-corruption litigation.

Gelfand, who earned his law degree in 2009 from Washington University, returned to St. Louis in 2014. He initially practiced with Capes Sokol until he opened his current firm in 2018.

Gelfand is an adjunct professor at Washington University School of Law and has served on the tax section of The Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis.

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