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Cincinnati office Appeals officers’ caseloads were about half of
their normal caseloads. The chief of the Cincinnati office, the
associate chief (Paul R. Becker, hereinafter sometimes referred
to as Becker), and Appeals Officer Fran Rowland (hereinafter
sometimes referred to as Rowland) went to the Louisville office
to discuss with Winkler and Craig the possibility of the
Cincinnati office’s processing some of the Barrister case
settlements. By the end of the meeting, it was decided that the
Cincinnati office would take some 200 of the Barrister cases.
Winkler remained responsible for executing Tax Court decision
documents on behalf of the Commissioner in Barrister cases. The
Cincinnati office picked up the cases from the Louisville office
in June of 1993.
The number of cases transferred to the Cincinnati office,
coupled with their complexity, created the need for Craig to
conduct an all-day training session about how to process the
settlement of the cases. The need for a training session to
become able to settle a case was not typical.
About July of 1993, about 75 cases, including petitioners’
case, were assigned to Rowland.
Appeals officers in the Cincinnati office managed multiple
priorities while they processed the settlement of the Barrister
cases. Cases nearing the end of the limitations period, and Tax
Court cases calendared for trial in Cincinnati and Columbus,
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