The POWER List: Laura E. Krebs Al-Shathir

Capes Sokol, St. Louis

Laura Krebs Al-Shathir helps clients resolve disputes with the Internal Revenue Service and Departments of Revenue in various states. She focuses her practice on business tax and transactional matters, representing large and mid-size companies as well as small-business owners.

In one well-known case, she and fellow POWER List honoree Sara Neill fended off the Internal Revenue Service’s claims that a family-owned trucking company had failed to report gains from having transferred millions of dollars’ worth of intangible assets from the owner to his sons’ new trucking company.

Al-Shathir serves as vice chair of the American Bar Association’s S Corporations Committee and frequently speaks at national ABA Tax Section conferences. She formerly served as chair of The Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis’ Taxation Section.

She is also a fellow of both the American College of Tax Counsel and the American Bar Foundation, as well as a guest lecturer at Washington University School of Law taxation program and an adjunct professor at the University of Missouri School of Law.

Al-Shathir earned her law degree with a certificate in tax in 2003 from the University of Missouri.