LYMAN, ME, August 14, 2018 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to present Paula Singer with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. An accomplished listee, Ms. Singer celebrates many years' experience in her professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes she has accrued in her field. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
With 50 years of unique industry experience to her credit, Ms. Singer is currently retired, having most recently worked as of counsel from 2015 to 2016 for the tax law firm Vacovec, Mayotte & Singer LLP in Newton, MA, as partner for Vacovec, Mayotte & Singer LLP from 1990 to 2015 and as practice leader for Thomson Reuters Corporation from 2011 to 2015. Thomson Reuters purchased Windstar Technologies, Inc., the software company Ms. Singer founded and operated with her husband from 1994 to 2011, an enterprise which included Windstar Publishing, Inc. Ms. Singer had joined the law firm in 1985 following more than five years with the elite consulting firm Arthur D. Little, Inc. as international personnel specialist dealing with the tax, immigration and contract aspects of the firm's personnel relocating internationally. Ms. Singer began her post-law school career with Peat, Marwick & Mitchell & Company as a tax specialist from 1977 to 1979. Prior to her law career, Ms. Singer had a 10-year career as a computer specialist. In 1966, at a time when few high-level jobs were open to women, Ms. Singer joined New England Mutual Life Insurance Company as a programmer. She continued her computer career with Union Mutual Life Insurance Company from 1968 to 1977, achieving the distinction of becoming the company's first female systems analyst.
Before embarking on her professional path, Ms. Singer overcame an impoverished childhood to graduate from Kennebunk High School as valedictorian in 1962. Ms. Singer worked her way through the University of Maine, Orono, married and supporting her elderly widowed mother by her junior year. She graduated summa cum laude in 1966 with a Bachelor of Arts in history and government with invitations to join the honorary societies Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi. After graduation Ms. Singer's law education was delayed until Congress opened up student aid for women in professional schools with the passage of Title IX of the Civil Rights Act in 1972. She concluded her studies at the University of Maine School of Law in 1978, earning a Doctor of Jurisprudence. Unusual for a married mother in her mid-30s in 1978, Ms. Singer was admitted to practice law by the Boards of Bar Overseers for Maine and Massachusetts. She has also been admitted to practice by the US District Court of Maine in 1978, the US District Court of Massachusetts in 1979, the US Tax Court in 1985, the Supreme Court of the United States in 1986, the US Court of Claims in 1989, and the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in 1996, before which she argued the case Carlos J. and Jean M. Quijano v. the United States.
During her career, Ms. Singer provided seminars for members of the Massachusetts and Boston Bar Associations and at conferences for members of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and participated in numerous endeavors outside of her professional circles as well. She was a presenter and on panels at myriad conferences including member-conferences of NAFSA: The Association of International Educators, the New England Payroll Association, and the American Payroll Association, receiving the Association's Meritorious Service Award for 2002. Ms. Singer joined the federal government's tax and immigration panelists at St. Norbert College's Annual International Tax Compliance Workshop from 1999 to 2008. She also gave tax season seminars to foreign national students and scholars at Boston area colleges and universities from 1988 to 1999 and seminars around the country from 2000 to 2011 for organizations for administrators, including the National Association of College and University Business Officers. A panelist on the Internal Revenue Service's webcast TaxTalkToday.tv in 2002 and 2007, Ms. Singer had earlier assisted the IRS and NAFSA with the development of the new Form 1040NR-EZ for foreign students and scholars in 1995. Ms. Singer contributed to the University of Maine School of Law Alumni Association as a member of the board of directors from 1989 to 1991 and to the town of Kennebunk, ME, as the first female member of its Budget Board from 1972 to 1974.
Ms. Singer found success with her written works as well, having authored such publications as "A Simple More Efficient Tax Collection System for America" in 2004 and 11 tax guidebooks including "International Aspects of Individual Tax Returns," which received the Bronze Medal for the Tax and Accounting Category from Axion Business Book Awards in 2008. Ms. Singer's more than 100 articles appeared in trade journals including more than 25 in the prestigious tax journals "TaxNotes" and "Tax Notes International" published by Tax Analysts, whose authors are touted as "The Experts' Experts." She penned more than 50 articles for Windstar's e-newsletter, "A View from the Crow's Nest," explaining complex tax and immigration-related rules for payment administrators. Her first law review article appears in the 1979 edition of the Rutgers Journal of Computers, Technology, and the Law, the first law review to combine these topics. Her more recent law review articles on tax policy appear in the esteemed Florida Tax Review and Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law. Most recently, the Christian Science Monitor published a number of her op-ed articles on taxation in 2014 and 2015. Many of her articles are available on SSRN.com. Ms. Singer describes her unusual career path and the financial and cultural barriers she overcame along the way in her memoir, "When There Is No Wind, Row, One Woman's Retrospective on the Most Transformative Changes Over the Past 50 Years" published in 2016.
Known for her international tax practice which combined expertise in US tax and immigration law, two of the most complex bodies of US law and procedure, Ms. Singer earned Martindale Hubbell's AV rating, its highest peer review rating, from 1990 to 2015. Since 1987, she has been a member of the International Fiscal Association, an organization of tax lawyers and accountants from around the world with whom she began dealing long before fax, email and the internet. Ms. Singer also maintains her long-standing affiliations with the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the American Bar Association, and the ADL Alumni Association. The University of Maine Alumni Association awarded Ms. Singer the Alumni Association Annual Career Award for 2017, one of fewer than a dozen women to receive this award in its 55-year history. Ms. Singer was selected for inclusion in multiple editions of Who's Who in Finance and Industry, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Law, Who's Who in the World and Who's Who of American Women.
In recognition of outstanding contributions to her profession and the Marquis Who's Who community, Ms. Singer has been featured on the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement website. Please visit www.Itachievers.com for more information about this honor.
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