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John Wallach handles cases involving medical malpractice, trucking, auto and motorcycle accidents, wrongful death, brain injury, birth trauma, defective products, legal malpractice, and other serious injury matters.

John Wallach is considered one of the preeminent personal injuriy attorneys in the region. He was selected for "The Best Lawyers in America" in the categories of Personal Injury and Medical Malpractice; and in the same categories in "Missouri Kansas Super Lawyers" and "The Best Lawyers in St. Louis" in St. Louis Magazine.

He serves on the Board of Governors of the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys, and is a lifetime member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum.

John Wallach has a rating of "AV" from Martindale-Hubbell, the highest rating for legal ability and ethics as selected by his peers. He is also included in Martindale-Hubbell "Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers."

For over 25 years he has sucessfully tried cases in Missouri and Illinois courts, and has established a reputation for taking on challenging cases and obtaining excellent verdicts and settlements for his clients.

Rob defends clients in criminal and civil tax proceedings as well as provides tax planning advice to numerous business clients. He has litigated and negotiated settlements for clients involved in Listed Transactions deemed by the IRS to be abusive tax-shelter arrangements.

He often represents clients before the IRS criminal and civil examination divisions, appeals division, the U.S. Tax Court, the Court of Federal Claims, and various U.S. District Courts. Rob counsels clients before the IRS with respect to non-cash charitable contributions, deferred compensation, offshore trusts and corporations, discharge of indebtedness income, and federal excise tax. In addition, Rob serves as a tax expert in criminal and civil tax proceedings and represents plaintiffs in tax and accounting malpractice cases.

Rob is also a professor at the St. Louis University School of Business, Department of Accounting where he teaches courses in Tax Administrative Procedure and Tax Litigation Procedure.