Thursday, November 1st
12:00 p.m.
Courtroom
Professor Michael B. Lang
Chapman Law School
On November 1st, Professor Michael B. Lang, a colleague of Professor Lyon's, will be visiting from Chapman Law School in California. He will talk about careers in tax law and Chapman's LL.M. program.
The discussion will include the following information on career opportunities in the tax and estate planning areas and tax LL.M. programs.
Opportunities for law school graduates in the tax and/or estate planning areas in law firms.
Opportunities for law school graduates to use tax expertise in other areas of law practice.
Opportunities for law school graduates to work in the tax field in the public sector at the state or federal level.
Opportunities for law school graduates in the tax and/or estate planning areas with accounting firms.
Opportunities for law school graduates to use tax and/or estate planning expertise in investment or financial planning firms.
The benefits a tax LL.M. program can offer to students interested in a tax and/or estate planning career, or interested in related areas of professional work.
A survey of tax LL.M. programs, including the pluses and minuses of different types of programs.
Information on Chapman University School of Law’s Tax LL.M. Program.
Professor Lang was the founding Director of Chapman’s Tax LL.M. Program. A graduate of Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif, he practiced in both Chicago and Philadelphia and has taught at nine law schools, at both the J.D. and LL.M. level, including Utah, Washington University (St. Louis), Loyola (Los Angeles), Miami and San Diego, and served as Chair of the AALS Section on Post-Graduate Legal Education.
Lang’s extensive work with the ABA Section of Taxation has included chairing both its Teaching Taxation Committee and its Standards of Tax Practice Committee. He is currently Chair of its Tax Practice Management Committee and an active member of the Section’s Task Force on Patented Tax Strategies.
His publications range from articles in leading tax periodicals, such as THE TAX LAWYER, TAX LAW REVIEW, FLORIDA TAX REVIEW and TAX NOTES, and law reviews to a treatise on FEDERAL TAX ELECTIONS (with Colleen Khoury) and three decades of compiling the INDEX TO FEDERAL TAX ARTICLES (with Isa Lang).
He is a co-author of two textbooks for graduate tax students, FEDERAL TAX ACCOUNTING (2006 and 2d ed. 2011) and REGULATION OF TAX PRACTICE (2010), and TAX PLANNING PATENTS (2010), a BNA Tax Management Portfolio.
Professor Lang is a recognized expert on ethical, disciplinary and related issues affecting tax lawyers and other tax practitioners, including Circular 230 (governing practice before the IRS), return preparer standards and tax malpractice. He speaks frequently on these and other tax issues to both bar and academic groups. Professor Lang is an elected Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel.
Lunch will be provided for those who rsvp in ROSCOE by Wednesday at noon. Please let Professor Lyons know of any dietary restrictions. His number is 402-472-1246 or email at wylons2@unl.edu.