About Me

Barnaby W. Zall is Of Counsel to the Rockville, Maryland, law firm of Weinberg, Jacobs & Tolani, LLP. He practices tax-exempt organization law, constitutional and statutory litigation (including drafting and defending ballot initiatives), and commercial law. He is rated "AV" by the Martindale-Hubbell legal rating service - the highest possible rating.

From 1990 to 1998, Mr. Zall was Of Counsel to Williams & Jensen, P.C., a Washington, D.C. law firm specializing in lobbying. Mr. Zall represented large businesses, nonprofit organizations, and individuals in tax, trade, commercial and constitutional matters. Mr. Zall was an accomplished lobbyist, whose efforts included protecting clients from governmental actions, obtaining statutory benefits (including exemptions from antitrust laws, grants from federal agencies, and statutory commercial monopolies), and assisting clients with political campaign finance and governmental relations laws (including Political Action Committees).

From 1983 to 1990, Mr. Zall was the principal in the Law Offices of Barnaby Zall, a four-person law firm in Washington, D.C. with a practice which included government relations and tax-exempt organization law, litigation, and small business counseling. Mr. Zall had been chief executive officer and principal government relations professional for a variety of nonprofit organizations involved in community development and legislative action. He was a consultant to the National Commission on Neighborhoods. Mr. Zall is an honors graduate of the George Washington Law School and received his undergraduate degree from Pomona College in Claremont, California.

Mr. Zall is admitted to practice law before the Supreme Court of the United States, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, Eleventh, Federal and D.C. Circuits, the U.S. District Courts for the District of Columbia and Maryland, the U.S. Tax Court, and the highest courts of Maryland and the District of Columbia. He has also appeared before the Supreme Courts of California, Colorado and Florida. Mr. Zall successfully argued the U.S. Supreme Court case, Arizonans for Official English v. Arizona, 520 U.S. 43 (1997).

In 1986, Mr. Zall won the Ross Legal Writing Prize from the American Bar Association. He has served as Chairman of the ABA's Small Firms Committee of the Section on Taxation, and on the Long-Range Planning Task Force, the Committee on Court Procedure and Practice, the Tax-Exempt Organizations Committee, and the Committee on Committees of the Tax Section.

Mr. Zall is the author of numerous publications, including Legal Opinion Letters from the Washington Legal Foundation, Caveat Emptor: Minority Shareholders' Rights Around the World (1994), and Tax on PACs: Federal Tax Treatment of Political Campaign Committees and Political Action Committees (D.C. Bar Association, 1992). He was Editor of the ABA Tax Section's Small Firm Tax Lawyer for eight years.