One of roughly 260 State Bar Certified Tax Law Specialists, Chris Cooke in Point Loma represents individuals and businesses before the IRS and Franchise Tax Board from Liberty Station on Historic Decatur Road. Tax-controversy work covers audit defense, offer-in-compromise negotiations, and installment-agreement structuring — resolutions whose financial modeling often dovetails with the bookkeeping at firms like Freebird Financial LLC. A retired Navy Commander and 1981 Naval Academy graduate, the attorney earned his JD from USD School of Law in 2003 and a Super Lawyers Rising Stars designation in 2017. Tax-efficient estate planning and entity-formation advice layer onto the investment structures assembled by Innovative Capital Corporation in Point Loma San Diego. The firm's most complex matters involve multi-year criminal tax-evasion defense coordinated across IRS Criminal Investigation, the U.S. Attorney's Office, and California state tax agencies.