Admitted
1966, New York and U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; 1973, U.S. Tax Court; 1974, U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; 1991, Texas, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit and U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas; 1
Law School
Harvard University, LL.B., cum laude, 1965
Law School Graduation Year
1965
College
Columbia University, A.B., magna cum laude, 1962 Phi Beta Kappa
Memberships
The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member: Committee on Taxation, 1978-1981, 1989); New York State (Tax Section: Chairman, Committee on Bankruptcy, 1982-1984; Member, Executive Committee, 1983) and American (Member, Section on Taxation; Co-Chair, Task Force on the National Bankruptcy Review Commission, 1997; Chairman, Ad Hoc Committee for Bankruptcy Revision, 1977-1980; Vice-Chairman, Committee on Liens, Levies, Limitations and Bankruptcy, 1981-1983; Chairman, Sub-Committee on Bankruptcy of Corporate-Stockholder Relationships Committee, 1983-1984) Bar Associations; National Bankruptcy Conference (Member; Chairman, Committee on Tax Matters, 1986—)
Biographical
Author: Injunctions and Declaratory Judgments in Federal Tax Controversies, 28 Rutgers L. Rev. 785, 1975; Post-Mortem Tax Planning For Carryover Basis Property, 31 Tax Lawyer 701, 1978; Discharge of Indebtedness Income in Bankruptcy After the Bankruptcy Tax Act of 1980, 27 St. L.U.L.J. 583, 1983; Reorganizing Insolvent Corporations, 41 N.Y.U. Inst. on Fed. Tax'n, Ch. 5, 1983; Reorganizing Insolvent Corporations Today, 47 N.Y.U. Inst. on Fed. Tax'n, Ch. 40, 1989; Towards a Bankruptcy Tax Act of 1993, 51 N.Y.U. Inst. on Fed. Tax'n, Ch. 13, 1993. Member, 1963-1965 and Treasurer, 1964-1965, Harvard Legal Aid Bureau. Member, City of New York, Mayor's Special Committee on Real Estate Tax Incentives, 1984. Member, Tax Forum, New York, 1989-1990. Member, 1990—, President, 1990-1991, The Houston Tax Roundtable. Member, Tax Club of New York, 1977—. Chairman, 1994-1995 and Member, 1989—, Advisory Board, N.Y.U. Tax Institute. Fellow, American College of Tax Counsel, 1993—.