Mr. Shulman is of counsel at Ivins, Phillips & Barker and serves in the firm's Tax Controversy practice. He brings to that practice insights and experiences from over forty continuous years of general litigation. He has served as lead counsel in cases involving employment, environment, government contracts, sovereign immunity, intellectual property and white collar crime, as well as tax.

He has appeared before federal courts throughout the United States, including the Supreme Court of 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. He has been recognized in the field of commercial litigation in every edition of Best Lawyers of America that has been published. Clients he has represented in these matters include such familiar corporate names as Textron, McDonald’s and AT&T and such diverse interests as the private landowners of Kwajalein Atoll and the Republic of Guinea.

Independent of litigation, Mr. Shulman has developed a major expertise in the representation of non-profit organizations.  He has guided 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) organizations through the full panoply of corporate and tax issues they confront for over thirty years, including CEP audit.