Partner Sam Turner serves fees and fines and delinquent tax clients in Central Texas, West Texas, and the Panhandle from our Austin office. His responsibilities include managing delinquent tax litigation, coordinating trial dockets, facilitating mailing schedules, responding to client needs, and supervising the successful implementation of collection programs in a multi-county area.

Sam supports his community in a variety of ways, including serving as a past board member of the Hays CISD Education Foundation, as a Hays Band Booster, and as past high adventure leader for Boy Scout Troop 218.

Mr. Turner received a Bachelor of Arts in History and Latin American Studies from the University of Texas in 1994. After earning a Juris Doctor in 1996 from Texas Tech University School of Law, Sam was an Assistant District Attorney in Andrews County. He later came to Austin and worked as a prosecutor for the City Attorney’s Office before entering private practice in 2000. In addition to his private practice, Mr. Turner maintained a fee office for a title company, a federal tax practice, and ran his own construction company before joining Linebarger in October 2017.

Pete Slover leads the firm’s government relations strategy, cultivating relationships with key lawmakers and stakeholders, and advocating for the firm’s interests in the ever-evolving legislative landscape.

Slover, a seasoned professional with extensive experience in both the public and private sectors, has a remarkable track record in state and local tax, investigative and government journalism, and legal practice.

Pete joined Linebarger’s Homestead Exemption Analysis team as the Director of Analytics and Discovery in 2017. His state and local tax expertise and ability to craft robust data solutions assure that our Homestead Exemption Audit group delivers exemplary service to our clientele.

Peter’s professional experience spans the public and private sectors. He managed a private legal practice, focusing on state and local tax and data-related matters. He also worked as the Director of Tax Analytics for Verus Financial, LCC, a firm supporting state revenue agencies with data-driven assistance to identify, audit, and collect money owed to states.

As a former Special Counsel and Director of Criminal Investigations for the Texas Comptroller, he led the development of legislation and technology for data-driven identification of state sales tax underpayments.

Mr. Slover’s work for international clients and his experience with tax matters led to his appointment in 2015 as Honorary Consul for the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg in Texas. He strives to expand cultural and business ties between the Lone Star State and Luxembourg, a tiny country that is a European powerhouse in banking, e-commerce, and logistics.

Mr. Slover earned his Bachelor’s degree in Journalism from Southern Methodist University in Dallas in 1982 and his Juris Doctorate from the University of Texas Law School in Austin in 1986. After gaining admission to the Texas Bar that year, Mr. Slover worked for two decades as an award-winning investigative reporter, chiefly for The Dallas Morning News. His reporting required extensive use of public data. In 2012, the University of Texas School of Journalism recruited him to create and teach an upper-level course in data-driven journalism.

Partner Elizabeth Paul practices in the areas of compliance and post-judgment collections and is based in the firm’s Austin office.

She is licensed to practice law in Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, and West Virginia. Ms. Paul is a member of the Oregon State Bar, State Bar of Texas, West Virginia State Bar, Austin Bar Association, and the Oklahoma Bar Association.

Prior to joining Linebarger, Ms. Paul served as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Alia Moses, United States District Judge for the Western District of Texas, and later practiced banking litigation at a boutique law firm.

Ms. Paul received her undergraduate degree from Texas A&M University and her master’s degree from the University of Texas at San Antonio. She graduated from St. Mary’s University School of Law in 2009 where she was a member of Phi Delta Phi and the Women’s Law Association.