NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE via COLLEGIATE PRESSWIRE)--May 8, 2003--Following a review by the American Bar Association and the New York State Board of Regents, New York Law School has announced the establishment of its the Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Taxation.
New York Law School is now one of only two law schools in the New York City metropolitan area to offer this advanced training for tax lawyers.
The program is open to graduates of U.S. and Foreign Law Schools and offers advanced tax training for attorneys who seek to acquire a thorough grounding in U.S. tax law and master the skills needed to work at the most challenging levels of tax practice, tax administration, and tax policy making. The program can be completed in as few as three semesters. Full- and part-time study is available, and courses are offered in the late afternoon and evening. The Law School is now accepting applications for Fall 2003 admission.
''One thing America does not need is generic legal education,'' said Dean Richard A. Matasar. ''Our new Tax LL.M. is unique, with a focus on the significant taxation issues confronting real clients and practicing lawyers. I am excited that New York Law School can add real value to the advice graduates in the program will be able to give their clients.''
The Graduate Tax Program comprises a rigorous core curriculum that presents the fundamental concepts of federal income tax law in depth and a broad array of elective courses that build upon that foundation. Course work emphasizes problem-solving as well as the professional responsibilities of the tax advisor. The capstone of the program is the series of advanced tax planning seminars designed to refine analytical, research and communication skills and to enhance professional judgment and competence in chosen areas of concentration. Advanced tax planning seminars are offered to refine analytical, research, and communication skills.
The program offers a wide range of concentrations, including Corporate Taxation, Estate Planning, International Taxation, Planning for Entrepreneurs and Closely Held Businesses, Tax Litigation, and State and Local Taxation and Finance.
For applications and further information, contact Stephanie Vincent, Office of Graduate Admissions, New York Law School, 57 Worth Street, New York, NY 10013, 212.431.2888, [email protected].
The program`s full-time and adjunct faculty has practice experience from some of the country`s most prestigious firms. Faculty members include:
-- Richard Beck, Professor of Law. Education: University of Chicago, B.A. 1963, Ph.D. 1973; Yale, J.D. 1980; New York University, LL.M. (Taxation) 1984. After practicing tax law for four years in New York City, Professor Beck returned to academia and taught for two years in the University of Denver Graduate Tax Program. In 1986, he joined the faculty of New York Law School where he has remained ever since. Professor Beck is co-author of a casebook on corporate and partnership taxation, and is the author of numerous law review articles in the tax field. He has testified several times before congressional tax writing committees as an expert on spousal liability for income taxes. He is a member of the Tax Section of the ABA, of the New York State Bar Association, and of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York committee on business entities. Professor Beck currently teaches Individual Tax, Tax Policy, International Tax, and Taxation of Property Transactions. He also regularly lectures on international tax as guest professor at the Sorbonne in Paris.
-- Pamela R. Champine, Associate Professor of Law. Education: University of Illinois, B.S. 1985 with highest honors; Northwestern, J.D. 1988 cum laude; New York University, LL.M. (Taxation) 1990. Professor Champine`s years of experience, first in private practice and later as Law Secretary to Surrogate Eve Preminger, furnish a comprehensive perspective on the tax and non-tax issues that arise in estate planning and management of personal affairs generally. Her scholarship ranges from articles addressing intricate tax issues to policy-based articles analyzing fundamental doctrines in the law of wills to a book addressing tax and non-tax aspects of drafting wills and trusts. Professor Champine will teach Problems of Timing in the LL.M. program. She also teaches Property and Wills, Trusts & Future Interests.
-- William P. LaPiana, Rita and Joseph Solomon Professor of Wills, Trusts, and Estates. Education: Harvard University, A.B. 1973 summa cum laude, A.M. in history 1975, J.D. 1978 cum laude, Ph.D. in history 1987. From 1979 to 1983 Professor LaPiana was associated with Davis Polk and Wardwell where he worked primarily in the estates group. He began teaching in 1983 at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and joined the New York Law School faculty in 1987. His teaching responsibilities include wills and trusts, property, federal estate and gift tax, estate planning, and American legal history. His dissertation was published as Logic and Experience: The Origin of Modern American Legal Education. He has also written on various aspects of nineteenth-century American legal history and is a regular participant in the New York University legal history colloquium. In addition, Professor LaPiana is the author of several articles on estate planning and a co-author of Disclaimers in Estate Planning: A Guide to their Effective Use and has contributed to Klipstein and Bloom, Drafting New York Wills. In 1992 he was elected an Academic Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and in 1998 was elected to membership in the American Law Institute. He was the Reporter for the revised Uniform Disclaimer of Property Interests Act, which was promulgated by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws in July 1999.
-- Ann F. Thomas, Professor of Law. Education: Harvard-Radcliffe, A.B. 1973; Yale, J.D. 1976. Professor Thomas brings to the classroom 17 years of experience--10 as partner--working in the corporate tax department at Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson, where she specialized in mergers and acquisitions. Professor Thomas studies and teaches about comparative systems of corporate taxation around the world and sees a need in the increasingly global marketplace for an expansion of international cooperation on business and tax issues. Professor Thomas is in the process of finishing a book examining the history of the U.S. tax system during the Progressive Era and the emergence of the modern income tax system in 1913. She teaches Business Law Issues in Structuring the Closely Held Enterprise, Comparative Tax Law, Corporate Tax, and Individual Income Tax.
ABOUT NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL
Located near the centers of law, government, and finance in New York City, New York Law School is one of the oldest independent law schools in the United States. Its faculty of noted and prolific scholars has built the school`s curricular strength in the areas of tax law, labor and employment law, civil and human rights law, media and information law, urban legal studies, international and comparative law, and interdisciplinary fields such as legal history and legal ethics. The Law School enrolls 1,400 students and has more
than 11,000 graduates.
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