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Chicago Grad Faces 3-Year Suspension For Altering Grades on Law School Transcript

Posted on April 23, 2009
The Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission has recommended that 2003 Chicago Law Grad Loren Friedman have his law license suspended for three years for altering grades in twenty courses on his law school transcript. Mr. Friedman had failed to...

Senate Holds Hearing Today on Technology Neutrality in Energy Tax

Posted on April 23, 2009
The Senate Finance Committee holds a hearing today on Technology Neutrality in Energy Tax: Issues and Options. Here are the witnesses scheduled to testify: Gilbert E. Metcalf (Professor of Economics, Tufts University, Medford, MA) David Greene (Corporate Fellow, Oak Ridge...

Logue & Slemrod: The Tax Implications of Genetic Information

Posted on April 23, 2009
Kyle Logue (University of Michigan Law School) & Joel Slemrod (University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross Schol of Business) have published Genes as Tags: The Tax Implications of Widely Available Genetic Information, 61 Nat'l Tax J. 843 (2008) (Symposium on...

Elite Law Reviews Launch The Legal Workshop

Posted on April 22, 2009
The law reviews at Chicago, Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, NYU, Northwestern, and Stanford have launched The Legal Workshop, "a website providing a single online forum for cutting-edge legal scholarship from the top law journals in the country": The Legal Workshop features...

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6th Annual Institute on Tax Aspects of Mergers and Acquisitions

Posted on April 22, 2009
Penn State's Center for the Study of Mergers and Acquisitions hosts the sixth annual Institute on Tax Aspects of Mergers and Acquisitions beginning today at the New York City Bar, 42 West 44th Street, New York. The Institute co-chairs are:...

NYU Goes SAT-Optional

Posted on April 22, 2009
Chronicle of Higher Education Inside Higher Ed NYU News

Methodology Changes in 2010 U.S. News Law School Rankings

Posted on April 22, 2009
On Monday, I blogged the 2010 U.S News Law School Rankings (overall and peer reputation), which will be officially released tomorrow. Today's Wall Street Journal Law Blog reports that Robert Morse, Director of Data Research at U.S. News, has confirmed...

Obama Plan to Tax Overseas Profits Would Hurt U.S. Multinationals

Posted on April 22, 2009
In today's Wall Street Journal: Titans Vow Overseas-Tax Fight; Obama Administration Plan Would Hit Biggest Companies Hardest, by Jesse Drucker: The Obama administration's nascent proposals to tax offshore profits may have a sizable impact on the likes of Pfizer Inc...

Tax Lawyer Is One of California's Top 250 Tax Deadbeats

Posted on April 22, 2009
Following up on my prior post, California Celebrity Tax Deadbeats: the ABA Journal and Legal Pad reports that Reed Smith tax lawyer James P. Kleier joins Burt Reynolds, Sinbad, and Dionne Wawick on the list of California 250 biggest tax...

The SSTP and Technology: Implications for the Future of the Sales Tax

Posted on April 22, 2009
William F. Fox, LeAnn Luna & Matthew N. Murray (all of University of Tennessee, Center for Business and Economic Research) have published The SSTP and Technology: Implications for the Future of the Sales Tax, 61 Nat'l Tax J. 823 (2008)...

Families Shift Charitable Giving From Private Foundations to Donor-Advised Funds

Posted on April 22, 2009
In today's Wall Street Journal: Family Charities Shift Assets to Donor Funds; Givers Gain Cost, Tax Benefits But Sacrifice Some Control; Leaving Paperwork to Others, by Mike Spector: Frustrated by the upkeep, philanthropists are increasingly unwinding their private foundations into...

CRS Issues Tax Reports

Posted on April 22, 2009
The Congressional Research Service has issued several tax reports: Business Tax Issues in 2009 (R40500) (Apr. 8, 2009) Retirement Savings and Household Wealth in 2007 (RL30922) (Apr. 8, 2009) Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Tax Incentive Resources (R40455) (Mar...

Low Income Taxpayer Clinic Grant Recipients

Posted on April 22, 2009
National Taxpayer Advocate Nina E. Olson announced today (IR-2009-43) that the IRS has awarded $9.5 million in matching grants to Low Income Taxpayer Clinics (LITCs) for the 2009 grant cycle (Jan. 1, 2009, through Dec. 31, 2009). Through the LITC...

Foundation Press Publishes Corporate Law Stories

Posted on April 21, 2009
Foundation Press has published Corporate Law Stories, by J. Mark Ramseyer (Harvard): Taking eleven pivotal cases that have shaped the evolution of corporate law, internationally renowned scholars explore the people behind the disputes, and the forces that led the judges...

McCaffery & Hines: The Last Best Hope for Progressivity in Tax

Posted on April 21, 2009
Edward J. McCaffery (USC) & James R. Hines Jr. (Michigan) have posted The Last Best Hope for Progressivity in Tax on SSRN. Here is the abstract: We argue that a spending tax, as opposed to an income or wage tax,...

All She Wants to Do Is Tax

Posted on April 21, 2009
Chuck DeVore, who is running for Barbara Boxer's senate seat, posted a video on YouTube, All She Wants to Do Is Tax, a funny parody of Eagles founder Don Henley's hit song, All She Wants to Do is Dance. CNN...

Affirmative Action "Mismatch" at Duke

Posted on April 21, 2009
Inside Higher Ed: Testing for "Mismatch", by Scott Jaschik: If members of some minority groups are admitted to elite colleges because of affirmative action -- and don't perform as well as they expected -- does this show a serious flaw...

Ed Kleinbard to Leave Joint Tax Committee to Join USC Law School Faculty

Posted on April 21, 2009
Edward D. Kleinbard announced today that he is leaving his position as Chief of Staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation on May 15, 2009 (after 20 months in the job) to join the faculty at USC Law School. Prior...

School's Out For Summer!

Posted on April 21, 2009
I taught my last Estate and Gift tax class of the semester today -- which can only mean one thing: Thank goodness for 3-course teaching loads and 13-week semesters!

Doran Presents Managers, Shareholders, and the Corporate Double Tax Today at Michigan

Posted on April 21, 2009
Michael Doran (Virginia; moving to Georgetown) presents Managers, Shareholders, and the Corporate Double Tax today at Michigan as part of its Tax Policy Workshop Series hosted by Reuven S. Avi-Yonah. Here is the abstract: The United States generally imposes two...

CP&PP: Time for States to Increase Tax Rate on Incomes Over $500k by 1%

Posted on April 21, 2009
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has published Raising State Income Taxes on High-Income Taxpayers, by Elizabeth McNichol, Andrew Nicholas & Jon Shure: Raising income taxes on a small number of states? highest-earning households can help close budget gaps...

Bird & Zolt: Technology and Taxation in Developing Countries

Posted on April 21, 2009
Richard M. Bird (University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management) & Eric M. Zolt (UCLA) have published Technology and Taxation in Developing Countries: From Hand to Mouse, 61 Nat'l Tax J. 791 (2008) (Symposium on Technology, Privacy, and the Future...

"Party School" Rankings

Posted on April 21, 2009
Yesterday, I blogged the new U.S. News Law School Rankings (here, here, and here). Inside Higher Ed has a piece on Competing Party School Rankings by Playboy and Princeton Review. Here is how Inside Higher Ed describes the methodologies of...

U.S. News' Top 14 Law Schools, 1987-2010

Posted on April 21, 2009
Following up yesterday's posts (here, here, and here) on the new U.S. News rankings, Law School Almanac has updated its great chart of the Top 14 Law Schools for every year U.S. News has published its rankings (since 1987). (Hat...

Can Congressional Staff Testify on Meaning of Tax Law?

Posted on April 20, 2009
There is a fascinating new development in the case of In re G-I Holdings, 369 B.R. 832 (D.N.J. 2007), which involved the interpretation of a tax transition rule. The taxpayer In that case redeemed its partnership interest under an amended...

Leo Martinez Named Interim Dean at UC-Hastings

Posted on April 20, 2009
UC-Hastings announced on Friday that Tax Prof Leo Martinez has been been named Interim Chancellor and Dean, effective July 1, 2009, when Nell Newton steps down to accept the Notre Dame deanship: Professor Martinez?s experience and lengthy tenure with UC...

Do Law Students Benefit When Their Professors Blog?

Posted on April 20, 2009
Jeff Sovern (St Johns) asks a provocative question: Do Law Students Get What They Pay for When Law Professors Blog?: [W]hat do law students get from professorial blogging? At least three things: [T]o the extent that blogging enhances a school's...

Cornell LII Offers Writer/Editor Positions For Jobless/Job-Deferred Grads on Wex Legal Dictionary/Encyclopedia

Posted on April 20, 2009
Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute (LII) has launched Wex, an ambitious effort to construct a collaboratively-created, public-access law dictionary and encyclopedia. See the Wex FAQ. For a list of existing pages (which includes several tax-related pages), see here...

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Posted on April 20, 2009
Saturday: 18 States Tax iPod Music Downloads; More to Joint Them? Jones: Taxation of Profit Interests FutureFirm 1.0 Son of the Boss and the Troubling Legacy of Colony, Inc. Impact of Capital Gains Taxes on Asset Prices and Welfare Sunday:...

2010 U.S News Peer Reputation Rankings (v. Overall Rankings)

Posted on April 20, 2009
Following up on this morning's post, Early Release of 2010 U.S. Law School Rankings: Brian Leiter has blogged the Top 40 law schools by academic and lawyer/judge peer reputation. Here is the full list of the 186 law schools ranked...

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