Christopher S. Rizek is a member of the law firm of Caplin & Drysdale, Chartered, in Washington, D.C.  He formerly served as Associate Tax Legislative Counsel in the U.S. Treasury Department, Office of Tax Policy, where he helped write tax procedural guidance and legislation, including particularly the Taxpayer Bill of Rights 2 (1996) and the IRS Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998.  He has also previously worked in other Washington law firms and as a Trial Attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice, Tax Division. 

Mr. Rizek has a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Dartmouth College and received his J.D. and his LL.M. in Taxation from Georgetown University Law Center, where he is currently an Adjunct Professor.  He has chaired committees and served in numerous other capacities in the D.C. Bar’s Taxation Section, the American Bar Association Section of Taxation, and the American College of Tax Counsel.  Mr. Rizek served for eleven years as General Counsel of Caplin & Drysdale, and for five years as a member and later chairman of the Anne Arundel County Ethics Commission, and he frequently speaks and writes about tax practice and ethics issues.