Legal Services & Lawyers

Mr. Dillon represents individuals and businesses in tax and business matters. His practice is dedicated to providing owners and managers of private businesses with the advice, support and strategic counsel they require to successfully operate within the laws and regulatory requirements of the State of Maryland and the rest of the United States. He counsels United States and foreign clients on tax planning, tax controversy, corporate structure (incorporations, partnerships, joint ventures), buying and selling businesses, and financing. Mr. Dillon also has a thriving tax practice assisting clients in long-term tax planning as well as representation before the Internal Revenue Service and state taxing authorities.

Mr. Dillon also has extensive professional experience involving government-to-government, business-to-government, and business-to-business relations in Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans. In fact, Mr. Dillon is recognized as being one of the foremost United States private attorneys with substantive experience in one of the newest countries in the world - Montenegro (the heart of Southeastern Europe). An example of his experience and efforts in Montenegro as well as the rest of the Western Balkans is that he is the founding director and president the U.S. - Montenegro Business Council (www.usmnebc.org), a nonprofit trade association aimed at promoting trade and investment opportunities between the United States and the Western Balkans. It is also through this organization that Mr. Dillon negotiated with the State of Maryland and Podgorica, Montenegro the establishment of a foreign trade office for the State of Maryland in the Western Balkans (headquartered in Podgorica). As a direct result of these efforts the State of Maryland is the first state of any state in the United States to have a physical presence in the Western Balkans. Mr. Dillon also spearheaded the production of an international trade and investment documentary highlighting trade and business opportunities between the United State and Montenegro. This documentary, Montenegro: Jewel of the Adriatic, can be viewed on Mr. Dillon website at: www.dillonlegal.com, or at: www.jeweloftheadriatic.com

Mr. Dillon's previous legal experience includes working as a law partner with one of Maryland's largest private law firms, where he managed the Tax Services Department. Mr. Dillon also worked with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (Enforcement Division and Market Regulations), the U.S. Department of Justice (Civil Tax Division), the Internal Revenue Service, Chief Counsel's Office (Corporate), and the U.S. Tax Court

I practice excluseively in the area of international trade regulation law, including antidumping, countervailing duties, export control, WTO matters, and especially international enforcement of intellectual property rights, including anticounterfeiting and antidiversion.

Ashley M. Galloway joined Shumaker Williams in October 2007 as an Associate in the Firm's Immigration Section and Corporate and Financial Services Department.

Ms. Galloway's practice focuses on assisting immigration clients in both business and family immigration matters. Her clients include individuals such as physicians, engineers, and computer professionals, as well as multi-national corporations and small U.S. businesses seeking specialized workers.

Ms. Galloway also assists both large and small businesses with general business matters, regulatory matters, and loan documentation. Among the clients Ms. Galloway assists are individuals and businesses in the automotive, mortgage, hospitality, and financial services industries, among others.

Ms. Galloway received her Juris Doctorate from the Penn State University's Dickinson School of Law in 2007. While in law school, Ms. Galloway served as Editor-in-Chief of the Penn State International Law Review and interned with the Pennsylvania Department of Banking. Ms. Galloway received her B.A. in International Business and Management from Dickinson College in 2004. She also spent a portion of her studies as a student at the University of Westminster's School of Business in London, England.