ABA Tax Section Midyear Meeting

The ABA Tax Section Fall meeting continues today in Denver. The full program is here. Tax Profs with speaking roles today include:

• Administrative Practice: Taxpayer Reliance on “Formal” and “Informal” IRS Guidance -- Kristin Hickman (Minnesota)
• Affiliated & Related Corporations: Consolidated Section 382 and the SR LY Rules: Can They Be Refined and Simplified? -- Don Leatherman (Tennessee)
• Court Procedure & Practice: Common Evidentiary Issues in Tax Cases -- Joni Larson (Thomas Cooley)
• Employee Benefits Distributions Update -- Kathryn J. Kennedy (John Marshall)
• Exempt Organizations and Charitable Planning & Organizations: Gift Tax on Transfers to Section 501(c)(4) Organizations -- Ellen P. Aprill (Loyola-L.A.)
• Individual & Family Taxation: IRS Collection -- Is the Pendulum in the Right Place? -- Scott A. Schumacher (U. Washington)
• Standards of Tax Practice: Recent Amendments to Circular 230 and Their Potential Impact on Practitioner Disciplinary Proceedings -- Linda M. Beale (Wayne State)
• Task Force on Patenting Tax Strategies -- Ellen P. Aprill (Loyola-L.A.)
• Tax Practice Management: Ethics in Estate Planning -- Michael B. Lang (Chapman)
• Teaching Taxation: Three Views of Supreme Court Tax Jurisprudence -- Adam S. Chodorow (Arizona State), Charlotte Crane (Northwestern), Nancy Staudt (USC)
• Young Lawyers Forum & Diversity: Critical Tax Theory: The Impact of the Tax Code on Traditionally Subordinated Groups -- Anthony C. Infanti (Pittsburgh), Francine J. Lipman (UNLV)