• Chicoine & Hallett is selected as one of the Best Law Firms for Tax and White Collar Criminal Defense in U.S. News and World Reports' inagural law firm rarnkings.  http://bestlawfirms.usnews.com/
• Darrell Hallett is again named one of the Best Lawyers in America for 2011 in Tax and White Collar Criminal Defense, by U.S. News and World Reports' publication Best Lawyers in America.  Darrell first received this honor in 1987.  http://www.bestlawyers.com/search/default.aspx
• Darrell Hallett is selected as one of the Best Lawyers in Tax by the Puget Sound Business Journal, April 2010. 
• Washington Law & Politics recognizes Darrell Hallett and Robert Chicoine as Washington State "Super Lawyers" and Cori Flanders Palmer as a "Rising Star."
• Cori Flanders was appointed adjunct professor at the University School of Law in 2009.  She is teaching Tax Crimes again during spring quarter of 2011. 
• John Colvin is re-appointed for the fifth year as Chair of the Sub-Committee on Legislative and Administrative Developments for the ABA Tax Section's Sub-Section on Civil and Criminal Tax Penalties. 
• Cory Johnson is appointed to the WSBA Tax Section as Chair of the Scholarship Committee.  The WSBA Tax Section is comprised of approximately 500 members.
• Cori Flanders is elected Treasurer of the WSBA Tax Section for the 2011 fiscal year. 
• John Colvin is the primary author for the ABA Tax Section's comments on the Proposed Treasury Regulations under § 6694. 

IRS News Release: Second Special Voluntary Disclosure Initiative Opens; Those Hiding Assets Offshore Face Aug. 31 Deadline.  On February 8, 2011, the IRS announced a new, reduced penalty framework for taxpayers who come forward and disclose their offshore accounts. 

IRS News Release:  IRS to Receive Unprecedented Amount of Information in UBS Agreement, August 19, 2009. 

IRS Issues Updated Guidance Regarding Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program on June 24, 2009

IRS Loses "Son Of Boss" Shelter Case on Multiple Arguments; Promises No Change in Tactics
Federal Tax Weekly - Issue Number 18 - May 1, 2008.  Chicoine & Hallett represented the taxpayers in the case that  is the subject of this article (Sala v. United States).  

It Seemed Like Such a Good Idea at the Time: Tax Shelters, The Morning After
by Darrell D. Hallett and John M. Colvin. This article was published in connection with the ABA Tax Section's 2004 Criminal Tax Fraud seminar.

Robert Chicoine is quoted in Tax Analysts article, U.S. Virgin Islands Criminal Tax Case Part of Growing Trend, Practitioners Say, by Jeremiah Coder.