Rebecca (Becky) Trenner represents the firm’s clients in federal and state employment and unemployment tax controversies, with a particular focus on defending the classification of various transportation professionals, such as transportation equipment owner-operators and freight agents, as independent contractors. Becky defends transportation industry clients in disputes, including:

• State agency efforts to reclassify independent contractor owner-operators as a motor carrier’s employees for unemployment benefit claim and unemployment taxation purposes
• Federal and state employment tax inquiries involving independent contractor reclassification
• State agency attempts to reclassify independent contractor owner-operators as employees for workers’ compensation purposes
• State unemployment tax successor liability and State Unemployment Tax Act (SUTA) rate manipulation (i.e. SUTA dumping) investigations and appeals

Internally, Becky serves as the firm’s Associate Development Partner, responsible for facilitating, supporting, and guiding our associate attorneys’ training and professional development.

• Valparaiso University, B.S.
• Valparaiso University School of Law, J.D.