Wednesday, April 29, 2009

The (Non) Value of Old Exams

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The exam period begins today at the law school. Anxiety and stress, particularly among first-year students but also among the more seasoned ...
Monday, April 27, 2009

The Collapsing Economy: A Clue and Some Advice

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Last Tuesday, the Hearing Board of the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission (IARDC) issued a report and recommendation...
Friday, April 24, 2009

Why Tax Practitioners Must Be Good With Words, and Not Just Numbers

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Many people think tax is "all about numbers." So claim the students who arrive in my office before or at the beginning of the fall...
Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Tax Consequences, Tax Compliance, Tax Policy

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Tax law professors are well known for presenting students with hypotheticals and asking the students to analyze the tax and other legal cons...
Monday, April 20, 2009

An Elite Law Student Coalition to Break Law Firm Elitism?

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A recent article in the National Law Journal, Could Collective Action by Students From Top Law Schools Change Firms? raises some important ...
Friday, April 17, 2009

A Sort-of Flat Tax on Wages? Another Bad Tax Reform Idea to be SET Aside

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The New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants (NYSSCPA) has dusted off its Simplified Exact Transparent Tax (SET) proposal , wh...
Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Tax Day Trivia

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My librarian friend gave me a Christmas gift that is paying dividends (of the nontaxable sort) every day this year. It's a calendar of ...

The Return of the Soda Tax Proposal

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Monday's Philadelphia Inquirer featured an article, the name of which, Cut Calories by Taxing Soda , almost says it all. According to th...
Monday, April 13, 2009

Could the IRS Have Been the Hero? Should It Have Been the Hero?

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A new study from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), New Agency Data Shows IRS Downgraded Large Financial Services Audit...
Friday, April 10, 2009

A Special Tax Break: Fair? Worth Making Permanent?

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This latest tidbit falls into the category of how the tax law becomes complicated and raises the questions of why a complication should exis...
Wednesday, April 08, 2009

A Tide of Change in Legal Education: A Crisis That Won't Simply Go Away

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In How A Transformative Recession Affects Law Practice and Legal Education , I examined the impact of the current recession on law firms, in...
Monday, April 06, 2009

Hiring Advice for (Small) Firm Lawyers

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Lily Garcia writes an advice column for the Washington Post. In the Sunday, March 29, 2009, edition of the paper, her column, titled that da...