Mr. Shulman is of counsel at Ivins, Phillips & Barker and serves in the firm's Tax Controversy practice. In the course of his distinguished career Mr. Shulman has served in such prestigious positions as Law Clerk to Mr. Justice Harlan, Supreme Court of the United States, Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, Executive Assistant to the Secretary of Labor, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense in charge of Civilian Personnel, Industrial Relations and Civil Rights, General Counsel of the Air Force, and Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Mr. Shulman has been practicing law continuously since 1967 and has, during that time, appeared before federal courts throughout the United States, before State and local administrative agencies, in arbitration under the auspices of the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes at the World Bank, and the Inter-American Commercial Arbitration Commission, and before courts in the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas and the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Among his noteworthy tax cases are Merck & Co., Inc. v. United States and CSX Corporation, Inc. v. United States. Mr. Shulman has been recognized in the field of commercial litigation in each of the twenty editions of Best Lawyers of America that have been published.
Mr. Shulman received an A.B. degree from Harvard College in 1954 and an LL.B. degree, cum laude, from Yale Law School in 1958. At Yale, he was Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law Journal and a member of the Order of the Coif honorary society. He was a visiting assistant professor of law at the University of Michigan in 1959 and a visiting professor of management at the University Oklahoma in 1964 and 1965. In 1990, he authored the treatise Shulman and Abernathy, The Law of Equal Employment Opportunity, with Professor Charles F. Abernathy of Georgetown University Law Center.
