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August 2004
Chicago-Kent mourns the death of lawyer and friend George B. Javaras
The Chicago-Kent community was saddened by the recent death of
George B. Javaras, one of our nation's premiere tax lawyers
and a driving force behind Chicago-Kent's Graduate Program in Taxation
and annual Federal Tax Institute.
A senior partner at the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis, Mr. Javaras
was a graduate of Northwestern University and the University of
Chicago Law School. As a young attorney, he worked in the U.S. Treasury
Department's Office of the Tax Legislative Counsel before joining
Kirkland & Ellis in 1967 and helping establish that firm's tax
department.
For many years Mr. Javaras was an adjunct professor at Chicago-Kent
and chaired the advisory committee for the law school's Graduate
Program in Taxation. For 14 years he also chaired Chicago-Kent's
annual Federal Tax Institute, at which hundreds of tax professionals
from throughout the country gather to review newsworthy tax developments
and their impact on tax planning, compliance and controversy techniques.
It was Mr. Javaras's stellar reputation in the tax law community
that made the Tax Institute what it is today. Through his efforts,
the institute each year welcomed an extraordinary array of speakers,
from IRS commissioners to distinguished federal judges to some of
the nation's finest tax litigators.
Mr. Javaras's influence will remain at our law school for years
to come, as successive generations of tax professionals attend the
programs he so skillfully built. We extend our sympathy to his wife,
Barbara, and to his daughter, Kristin.
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