Cabaniss, Johnston, Gardner, Dumas & O’Neal LLP
2001 Park Place North, Suite 700
Birmingham, Alabama 35203-4804

Telephone: 205-716-5310
Facsimile: 205-716-5389
Email: fgb@cabaniss.com 

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Areas of Practice:

Real Estate Transactions
Tax Law and Controversies
Timber Transactions
Wealth Transfer Planning

Education:

L L. M. (in Taxation), Georgetown
     University Law Center, 1977
 
J.D., with distinction, University of
     Mississippi, 1972, Mississippi
     Law Journal, Editorial Board,
     1971-1972 (Phi Alpha Delta,
     Omicron Delta Kappa)
 
B.B.A., University of Mississippi,
     1968

Admitted to Practice:

Mississippi State Bar (1972)
Alabama State Bar (1979)
District of Columbia Bar (1979)

F. Gerald Burnett

Gerald Burnett practices on a multi-regional basis in all areas of commercial real estate, related real estate taxation, secured financings and timber law and taxation. He has negotiated and closed transactions in sixteen states. Some of his out-of-state work includes large commercial projects in Jacksonville, Key Biscayne, Miami, Orlando and Tampa, FL.; Atlanta, GA.; Chicago, IL.; Louisville, KY.; Minneapolis, MN.; Reno, NV.; Charlotte, NC; Charleston, SC; Knoxville, Memphis and Nashville, TN; and Dallas and Houston, TX. Outside of the areas of real estate and timber transactions he has had substantial experience in tax controversies and wealth transfer planning and practices in those areas as well.

Gerald was formerly a trial attorney in the Tax Division of the United States Department of Justice (1974-1978). He received the Tax Division Outstanding Attorney Award while in the Justice Department. He is the co-author of the treatise “Litigation of Federal Tax Controversies,” originally published by Shepard’s/McGraw Hill. He is the author of the Tax Management Portfolio entitled Timber Transactions and is currently a Special Tax Advisor for Tax Management, Inc. He is a member of the Birmingham and American (Member: Sections of Litigation; Taxation; Real Property, Probate and Trust Law) Bar Associations.