Associate
Property Tax Practice Area
Drew Raines is exclusively dedicated to the representation of taxpayers through the property tax appeal process. His background in the fine arts allows him to approach the law from a unique perspective and mine previously unexplored possibilities in the seemingly limited world of property tax rules.Mr. Raines has been involved in Evans | Petree's property tax appeals for more than a decade as a clerk with the Property Tax Group. He has also clerked for Chicago property tax firm Fisk Kart Katz & Regan, Ltd. and has attended seminars of the American Property Tax Counsel, a national affiliation of leading property tax law firms. In law school, Mr. Raines fulfilled his legal writing requirement with a paper examining Tennessee's "greenbelt" property tax statute as compared with greenbelt treatment internationally.
He graduated from Memphis College of Art in 2007 with a degree in the fine arts, with dual emphases in photography and printmaking, and a minor in art history. He entered law school at the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law in the fall of 2008. There Mr. Raines was instrumental in the formation of the Law School Art Review Trustees (LSART), a student organization created to facilitate and manage the law school's art collection and display. He served as president of LSART during the 2010/11 year, and graduated with a J.D. that spring.
Education:
University of Memphis (J.D., 2011)
Memphis College of Art (B.F.A., 2007)
Admitted to Practice:
Tennessee, 2011
Contact:
phone: 901.474.6136
fax: 901.374.7524
email: draines@evanspetree.com
