Admitted: 1966, New York; 1967, U.S. Tax Court and U.S. Claims Court; 1973, Arizona and U.S. Supreme Court; 1974, U.S. District Court, District of Arizona; 1978, Nevada; 1991, U.S. District Court, District of Nevada; 1994, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
Law School: New York University, J.D.; LL.M. In Taxation
Member: Clark County and American (Member, Sections on: Taxation; Business Law; Law Office Management; Attorneys in Small Law Firms) Bar Associations; State Bar of Nevada (Member, Tax Section, Executive Committee, 1988-1999, Chairman, 1993-1994; Member, Bankruptcy Section, Executive Committee, 1994-2000); Southern Nevada Bankruptcy Attorneys Association.
Biography: Law Clerk, Honorable Philip Nichols, Jr. Judge, United States Claims Court, Washington, D.C., Feb. 1967 to June, 1968. Special Assistant Attorney General, United States Department of Justice, Tax Division, Washington, D.C., July 1968 to February 1973. Member, Taxation Advisory Sub-Committee, National Bankruptcy Review Commission, 1997. Recipient, 2003 Distinguished Service Award, National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys. Author: "Use of Bankruptcy Code To Set Tax Liability," 2 Nevada Lawyer, No. 5, May, 1994. Lecturer: Bankruptcy and Income Taxes, State Bar of Nevada 1994 Convention; 13th-16th Annual Conventions, National Association of Chapter 13 Trustees; 1st-19th Annual Conventions of National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys: "Dischargeability of Income Taxes in Chapter 7 and 13 Bankruptcies." Lecturer, Bankruptcy and Individual Income Tax Obligations, Clark County Bar Association Continuing Legal Education Program, 1989. Lecturer, State Bar of Oklahoma Advanced Bankruptcy Seminar, 2000 and 2002. Lecturer, "Dischargeability of Taxes," Northern California Consumer Bankruptcy Annual Conferences 2005 and 2010.
Born: Brooklyn, New York, October 31, 1941