Qualifications
U.S. Army Veteran, with prior deployments to Poland and Kuwait
Admitted to practice before the United States Tax Court, 2024
Master of Laws (L.L.M.) in Taxation, Boston University School of Law
Founder and Managing Attorney, Lau Legal Services PLLC, 2025
Admitted to practice law in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 2017
Juris Doctor (J.D.), Massachusetts School of Law, Class of 2016
How can Lau Legal Services help you?
Most people do not call me on their best day. They call when the IRS sends a notice they do not understand. When penalties start stacking faster than they can keep up. When a business grows faster than its tax planning. When a parent passes unexpectedly and nobody knows who is in charge. When “we should probably handle our estate plan” turns into “we should have done this years ago.”
That is where I work.
I am a tax controversy and estate planning attorney. I help individuals, families, and small business owners deal with high stakes problems involving money, taxes, and the kind of decisions people usually avoid until they no longer can. On the tax side, I handle IRS and state audits, penalty abatements, collections, back tax issues, payroll tax problems, business tax disputes, and the expensive consequences of bad advice, bad records, or simply waiting too long. Many business owners are excellent at running their company but have never been shown how quickly tax problems can turn into personal ones.
When the government sends a “love letter”, I step in, take over communication, and work toward a resolution before the problem gets worse. I also work with small business owners on the planning side: entity structure, tax strategy, succession issues, and making sure the business they spent years building does not become a legal mess for their family later. Because “I thought my CPA handled that” is not an estate plan, and neither is “my cousin said it should be fine.”
On the estate planning side, I help families make sure everything actually works when it matters. Not just documents in a binder. Real planning. Who makes decisions if you cannot. Where assets go when you die. Who protects the children. How to keep your family from turning grief into litigation and Thanksgiving into a probate strategy meeting. I have little interest in legal theater. Clients do not hire me for motivational speeches or ten-page emails that say nothing. They hire me because they want a clear answer, a real strategy, and someone willing to tell them the truth even when it is inconvenient. I am a U.S. Army veteran, which probably explains my preference for discipline, clarity, a slightly questionable sense of humor, and handling problems before they become disasters. I do not believe in creating complexity to justify fees. I believe in solving problems correctly the first time.
A large part of my practice involves business owners, professionals, and cross-border families dealing with U.S. tax and estate issues that are rarely simple and never improved by guesswork. Especially when someone says, “Can’t we just put the house in the kid’s name?” which is usually how my week gets interesting. Good legal work should create clarity, not confusion. Because when life breaks sideways, the goal is not to have the most impressive paperwork. The goal is to make sure everything still works.