David Hughes is an associate at Horwood, Marcus & Berk, Chartered, where he practices state and local tax with special emphasis on income and sales/use tax matters. His work focuses primarily on the resolution of state and local tax disputes and tax planning for multistate and multinational corporations. Mr. Hughes is co–author of the chapter entitled Illinois Sales and Use Tax in the American Bar Association's Sales and Use Tax Handbook. He graduated magna cum laude with a degree in English from the University of Notre Dame and received his law degree from Columbia University.