Lisa Perkins

Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Tax Clinic

Education/Professional Certification

LLM, Georgetown University Law School
JD, Michigan State University College of Law
BA, Michigan State University

Expertise

Tax Law

Biography

Lisa Perkins joined the UConn Law faculty in 2015 after more than 17 years with the U.S.  Department of Justice. She worked for five years as a trial attorney in the Tax Division of the Western Criminal Enforcement Section, prosecuting tax crimes in the western half of the United States, then moved to Connecticut. Until January 2015, she was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Hartford, handling both civil and criminal litigation in federal court on behalf of the U.S. government.  Her caseload included tax and financial crimes, immigration, employment discrimination, medical malpractice, Freedom of Information Act litigation and civil rights cases. As the intern coordinator in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Hartford for more than 10 years, she mentored many UConn Law students.

In January 2015, Perkins left the U.S. Attorney’s Office to start her own law practice focusing on tax, immigration and civil rights. As director of the Tax Clinic at UConn School of Law, she supervises law students who represent low-income taxpayers before the IRS and in Tax Court.

Perkins earned a bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University, a JD from Michigan State University College of Law and an LLM in taxation from Georgetown Law.