Faculty
The Graduate Program in Taxation is taught by full-time practioners and full-time faculty members
at Chicago-Kent.
| Gerald Brown, Director
Clinical Professor of Law
Chicago-Kent College of Law
John A. Biek
Partner, McDermott, Will
& Emery LLP
Richard A. Campbell
Partner, Mayer, Brown,
Rowe & Maw LLP
Michael A. Clark
Partner, Sidley Austin LLP
Dominic DeMatties
Associate, Sonnenschein Nath &
Rosenthal LLP
Jeffrey B. Frishman
Principal, Grant Thornton LLP
Steven G. Frost
Partner, Chapman and Cutler LLP
John E. Gaggini
Partner, McDermott, Will
& Emery LLP
Andrea Hamblin
Tax Attorney - Kraft International Taxes, Altria Corporate Services Inc. |
Christian E. Kimball
Partner, Jenner & Block LLP
Leslie A. Klein
Partner, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP
André LeDuc
Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Charles R. Levun
Partner, Levun, Goodman
& Cohen LLP
Richard D. Liebman
Retired Partner, Ernst & Young LLP
Nancy R. Livingston
Principal, Schwartz Cooper Chtd.
Todd F. Maynes
Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Jeffrey Olin
Partner, Grant Thornton LLP
John B. Palmer III
Partner, Foley & Lardner LLP
Kevin R. Pryor
Associate, Sidley Austin LLP
Thomas M. Zollo
Principal, KPMG |
Faculty Biographies
John A. Biek
Mr. Biek is a partner in the tax department of McDermott, Will & Emery LLP. His practice focuses on multistate corporate franchise and income taxes, sales and use taxes, and state abandoned property matters. He received his bachelor’s degree from Yale University in 1984. In 1987 he graduated from Georgetown University Law Center, where he served as executive editor of The Tax Lawyer. He is a frequent speaker and writer on state and local tax and abandoned property issues. Mr. Biek is a member of the Illinois and Ohio bars and the bar of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. He is a member of the American Bar Association and currently serves as chair of the Unclaimed Property Subcommittee of the ABA Tax Section State & Local Tax Committee.
Gerald Brown
Mr. Brown, clinical professor of law and director of the Graduate Program in Taxation, is a full-time member of the Chicago-Kent faculty. He received his bachelor’s degree from DePaul University and his law degree from the University of Chicago. He is also a certified public accountant. Prior to joining the Chicago-Kent faculty in 1990, he was staff assistant to the chief counsel for the Internal Revenue Service, a senior partner in the Chicago law firm of Arnstein & Lehr, and senior vice president and chief financial officer of a publicly held corporation. He has been a speaker and panelist on many taxation programs and is the author of various articles on taxation. In addition to being director of the Graduate Program in Taxation, he teaches courses in accounting, taxation, business organizations, corporate finance and business planning.
Richard A. Campbell
Mr. Campbell is a partner at Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP. His practice concentrates on estate planning, probate and trust law, contested estate and trust matters, representation of not-for-profit organizations and private foundations, and representation of closely held businesses. Mr. Campbell has published numerous articles on estate planning topics. He is a member of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel as well as the Illinois State Bar Association. Mr. Campbell was the 2001-02 president of the Illinois State Bar Association Trust and Estate Section Council. He received his B.S. in Mathematics and his J.D. from the University of Illinois, where he was an editor of the University of Illinois Law Review.
Michael A. Clark
Mr. Clark is a partner in the law firm of Sidley Austin LLP. He is a graduate of Illinois Wesleyan University (summa cum laude) and Harvard Law School (magna cum laude), where he was a member of the board of editors of the Harvard Law Review. From 1979-1981, Mr. Clark was attorney-adviser to the Honorable Arnold Raum, United States Tax Court. He is also a certified public accountant. Mr. Clark is a member of the American Bar Association Section of Taxation (vice chair, Exempt Organizations Committee); the Chicago Bar Association (member, Federal Tax Committee and former chair of Division H, Tax-Exempt Organizations); the American Bar Association Health Law Section (vice chair, Tax and Accounting Interest Group); and the American Health Lawyers Association (former chair, Tax & Finance Committee). Mr. Clark is a frequent speaker and writer on various tax topics.
Dominic DeMatties
Mr. DeMatties is an associate in the law firm of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, where he practices in the area of employee benefits and executive compensation. He received his law degree (cum laude) from Georgetown University Law Center and has a master’s degree in applied mathematics from Rochester Institute of Technology. Prior to law school, Mr. DeMatties worked as a compliance specialist and actuarial analyst in a large consulting firm. In that role, he assisted in the preparation of actual valuations of defined benefit pension plans and numerous specialized cost-analysis studies related to defined benefit, defined contribution and welfare benefit plans. He has co-authored several articles about employee benefits.
Jeffrey B. Frishman
Mr. Frishman is a principal with Grant Thornton LLP and is the firm’s national partner in charge of tax quality assurance. Prior to joining Grant Thornton, Mr. Frishman was a partner with the law firm of Winston & Strawn, where his practice concentrated on federal, state and local tax controversy matters, including audits, administrative appeals, administrative hearings and litigation for individuals; pass-through entities; and domestic and international companies. Mr. Frishman’s professional background includes governmental experience, having served for two years as an attorney-adviser to the U.S. Tax Court. He is admitted to the following courts: the Illinois Supreme Court, the U.S. Tax Court, the U.S. District Courts for the Northern District of Illinois and the Western District of Wisconsin, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Mr. Frishman received a B.A. in political science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1987. He received a J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1990, and an LL.M. in taxation from the University of Denver College of Law in 1991.
Steven G. Frost
Mr. Frost is a partner in the law firm of Chapman and Cutler LLP. He earned a B.A. and B.S. from the University of Colorado and a J.D. and M.S. from DePaul University. Mr. Frost is currently the chair of the ABA Tax Section’s Partnerships and LLCs Committee. He is a commissioner from the state of Illinois to the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (currently a member of the committee drafting a revised uniform limited liability company act) and a member of the Illinois Business Acts Institute. He is a member of the board of editors of the Journal of Passthrough Entities. Mr. Frost has been designated as a “Leading Illinois Attorney” by American Research Corporation and a “Leading U.S. Tax Attorney” by Euromoney Publications PLC. He has published various articles on partnership and investment-related tax issues. Mr. Frost is a certified public accountant and a fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel.
John E. Gaggini
Mr. Gaggini is a partner in the law firm of McDermott, Will & Emery LLP. His practice concentrates in the areas of income tax, sales/use tax, and abandoned property/escheat matters. He is a graduate of DePaul University College of Law (magna cum laude), where he served on the DePaul Law Review, and holds an LL.M. in Taxation from New York University. He is also a certified public accountant. Mr. Gaggini has clerked for Judge Shiro Kashiwa of the U.S. Court of Claims and was lead counsel in the Quill Corporation case wherein the U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed the requirement of “physical presence” in order for states to tax direct marketers. He served in the Income Tax Division of the Illinois Department of Revenue and also served as chairman of the State and Local Tax Committee of the Chicago Bar Association. Mr. Gaggini frequently lectures and writes on state and local tax issues. He is a member of the Illinois and District of Columbia bars and of the American, Illinois and Chicago bar associations.
Andrea Hamblin
Ms. Hamblin is the Tax Attorney – Kraft International Taxes at Altria Corporate Services Inc. She received an A.B. from the University of Chicago, an M.S. in accountancy from DePaul University, and a J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law. She is a member of the Illinois bar and is an Illinois certified public accountant.
Christian E. Kimball
Mr. Kimball is a partner at Jenner & Block LLP, where he is co-chair of the firm’s tax practice. He has extensive experience with federal income tax matters of all kinds, including particular experience with mergers and acquisitions and other corporate restructurings, with financial instruments, and with executive compensation. Mr. Kimball joined Jenner & Block after serving as chief legal officer for Bcom3 Group and the Leo Burnett Company. From 1993 to 1998, he was an associate professor at Boston University School of Law, where he taught federal income tax, partnership tax, tax policy and the taxation of financial instruments. Before teaching at Boston University, Mr. Kimball was a partner at Kirkland & Ellis in the firm’s tax practice. He has co-authored a book on the tax aspects of forming a corporation, published articles on the tax treatment of convertible debt and options, and has spoken on numerous subjects related to federal income tax. Mr. Kimball received a B.A. (magna cum laude) in applied mathematics from Harvard University in 1979. He received his J.D. from the University of Chicago in 1983, with honors and Order of the Coif.
Leslie A. Klein
Mr. Klein is a partner in the law firm of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, where he practices in the area of employee benefits and executive compensation. He received his law degree (with high honors) from Chicago-Kent College of Law and is a certified public accountant. Mr. Klein is currently a member of the American Bar Association’s Taxation Section Employee Benefits Committee and is a former member of the board of directors of the American Society of Pension Actuaries (ASPA). He is a frequent lecturer at employee benefit conferences and has written several articles about employee benefits, executive compensation and post-retirement medical benefits. Mr. Klein was previously a trial attorney in the Chicago office of the District Counsel of the Internal Revenue Service.
André LeDuc
Mr. LeDuc received his J.D. from Harvard University, where he graduated cum laude, and his A.B. from Princeton, where he graduated summa cum laude. He is a senior tax partner with the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. Mr. LeDuc served as counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance from 1981 to 1983. He taught as an adjunct professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law from 1986 to 1990 before returning in 1998. He also taught at the University of Miami from 1993 to 1995. Mr. LeDuc has also served on the Tax Advisory Group of the American Law Institute’s Subchapter C Project. He has written and lectured widely on corporate taxation and taxation of financial products.
Charles R. Levun
Mr. Levun is a partner in the law firm of Levun, Goodman & Cohen LLP. He received his B.S. in accounting from the University of Illinois and his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School. He is also a certified public accountant. Mr. Levun is the consultant to the CCH Partnership Tax Planning and Practice Guide, for which he is the author of the monthly Partner’s Perspective column, and is the editor-in-chief of the CCH Journal of Passthrough Entities. Mr. Levun is the co-sponsor and chair of the faculty of the annual Partnership, LLC & S Corporation Tax Planning Forums and “Back to Basics” Partnership, LLC & S Corporation Seminars. He is also a past chair of the Partnerships and LLCs Committee of the American Bar Association’s Section of Taxation, the Chicago Bar Association’s Federal Taxation Committee and the Federal Taxation Section Council of the Illinois State Bar Association. Mr. Levun is a Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel.
Richard D. Liebman
Mr. Liebman, a retired partner of the firm Ernst & Young LLP, remains active with the firm’s Transaction Advisory Services Group. He received his J.D. (cum laude) from Northwestern University School of Law and his B.S. in business and economics from Illinois Institute of Technology. Mr. Liebman is also a certified public accountant. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Illinois Society of Certified Public Accountants. He has been a speaker for Chicago-Kent’s Federal Tax Institute, the Tax Executive Institute and the Chicago Bar Association’s Federal Tax Committee Divisions C and F. He is the author of numerous tax articles.
Nancy R. Livingston
Ms. Livingston is a principal of Schwartz Cooper Chartered in Chicago, where she heads the firm’s Business, Tax and Estate Planning practice. Ms. Livingston concentrates her practice in the areas of estate planning, probate, trusts, elder law, taxation, business succession planning and general corporate law. She earned her J.D. (with honors) from DePaul University College of Law, an LL.M. in taxation from New York University Law School, and a B.A. from Wellesley College.
Todd F. Maynes
Mr. Maynes is a partner with the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. He received his B.A. and J.D. from Brigham Young University (magna cum laude) and then clerked for Judge Kenneth F. Ripple at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. His publications include Start-Up Expenditures, a volume in the BNA Tax Manager Portfolio series. His practice concentrates in the tax aspects of bankruptcy and insolvency. He also represents taxpayers in tax litigation matters.
Jeffrey L. Olin
Mr. Olin is the Managing Partner – International Tax Services U.S. in the Chicago offices of Grant Thornton LLP. As head of the practice in the United States, he serves clients worldwide and works with tax leaders around the globe to grow and enhance the practice firm-wide. Mr. Olin has more than 17 years’ experience working with both publicly traded and closely held companies in all areas of international tax. Most recently, he served as an international tax partner with the law firm of McDermott, Will and Emery. Mr. Olin, a CPA, received his B.S. cum laude from Carroll College, his J.D. from Marquette University Law School, and his LL.M. in Taxation from DePaul University College of Law. He is the author of Foreign Currency Translation and Transactions, published by CCH, and numerous articles on international tax topics.
John B. Palmer III
Mr. Palmer is a partner in the law firm of Foley & Lardner LLP. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School (magna cum laude), where he served as associate editor of the Michigan Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif. Mr. Palmer is a member of the Committee on Partnerships of the Federal Tax Section of the American Bar Association, past chair of the Federal Tax Section Council of the Illinois State Bar Association, and past chair of Division C of the Chicago Bar Association Federal Tax Committee. He is a frequent speaker and writer on partnership taxation, tax accounting, real estate taxation, and various other tax matters.
Kevin R. Pryor
Mr. Pryor is a partner with the law firm of Sidley Austin LLP. He received his B.A. from Brigham Young University (magna cum laude) and his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School (with honors). His practice focuses on contested federal income tax matters, mergers and acquisitions, like-kind exchanges, and the taxation of hedge funds.
Thomas M. Zollo
Mr. Zollo is the principal-in-charge of KPMG’s International Corporate Services Group, based in the firm’s Chicago office. He focuses on structuring the operations of multinational corporations. In connection with that practice, Mr. Zollo advises clients on issues related to financing their operations, deferring their recognition of offshore income, maximizing their foreign tax credits, and establishing and defending intercompany transfer prices. He has advised clients on scores of taxable and tax-free acquisitions and dispositions. Mr. Zollo has considerable experience on tax controversy matters, particularly those involving transfer pricing. Mr. Zollo graduated from Columbia University (summa cum laude) and from Harvard Law School (cum laude). He is a frequent speaker and writer on U.S. federal income tax issues.
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