Loyola-Chicago Seeks To Hire A Tax Clinic Director

Loyola-Chicago School of Law, Director, Federal Tax Clinic, Non-Tenure Track:

Loyola University Chicago School of Law is seeking an experienced tax litigator with a proven track record of success representing clients before the IRS in federal tax controversies to lead the Federal Tax Clinic as a clinical faculty member responsible for providing education, training and supervision to student attorneys in the clinic.

This is an opportunity designed for an attorney with experience as a practitioner in the field of tax law who is passionate about a future in experiential education in a law school clinic setting.

The preferred applicant will have experience teaching and administering a Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic (“LITC”) grant administered by the IRS. More information about the LITC grant program can be found here. The Loyola Federal Tax Clinic is supported in part by the LITC grant program. Applicants should have knowledge of best practices in clinical pedagogy and the ability to supervise student attorneys to ensure that clients receive high-quality representation and that students learn about the effective, ethical, and reflective practice of law. Supervision includes meeting weekly with students, accompanying students to court, reviewing student work product, and working with students on other activities, including education and outreach initiatives to the larger Chicago community. The Federal Tax Clinic Director also teaches a 2-hour weekly lawyering skills and substantive issue seminar. The Federal Tax Clinic Director is responsible for applying for grants and managing grants, including grant reporting and collaboration with the IRS LITC Program Office. ...

Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. Preferred start date is negotiable, but must be no later than November 1, 2022.

Law schools looking to hire Tax Profs to start in the 2023-24 academic year:

• Arkansas
• Barry
• Boston College
• Capital
• Case Western
• Chicago-Kent
• DePaul
• Drexel
• Emory
• Florida (entry-level or pre-tenure later)
• Florida (Associate Dean For Tax Programs)
• Florida A&M
• George Washington
• Harvard (clinician)
• Illinois
• Loyola-Chicago (clinician)
• Loyola-New Orleans
• Marquette
• Massachusetts
• Mississippi
• Northwestern
• Ohio State
• Oklahoma
• Peking University
• Roger Williams
• Rutgers
• South Carolina
• Seattle
• St. Thomas (FL)
• Temple (clinician)
• Tennessee
• Texas Tech (clinician)
• UC-Berkeley
• UC-San Francisco (clinician)
• University of San Francisco
• Utah
• Washington & Lee (clinician)
• Washington University