USC Law 2003 INSTITUTE ON FEDERAL TAXATION
Featuring expert updates on tax law from Bill Archer, former House Ways and Means Committee chairman; Pamela Olson, Treasury Department's deputy assistant secretary for tax policy; and USC Law Professor Erwin Chemerinsky
LOS ANGELES (Jan. 8, 2003) -- USC Law's 2003 Institute on Federal Taxation from Monday, Jan. 27, through Wednesday, Jan. 29, at the downtown Wilshire Grand Hotel, will bring together the nation's leading authorities on tax law to discuss current legislative developments, critical issues, and tax strategies affecting corporation, individual, real estate, partnership, and trust and estate matters.
The annual three-day Institute will feature keynote speakers Bill Archer, senior policy adviser for PricewaterhouseCoopers; Pamela Olson, deputy assistant secretary for tax policy in the Treasury Department; and Erwin Chemerinsky, a prominent USC constitutional law professor who will speak about his experience as a taxpayer litigant. Additionally, the conference will offer updates on current developments from Mark Silverman, Steptoe & Johnson, on corporate tax; Blake Rubin, Arnold & Porter, on partnership tax; and Jeffrey Pennell, Emory University School of Law, on estate planning.
The Institute is chaired by USC Law Professor Edward J. McCaffery, whose recently published book, Fair Not Flat: How to Make the Tax System Better and Simpler, has generated positive reviews in The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times, among other major publications.
"These are exciting but challenging times in tax, with many changes in the horizon," McCaffery says. "The Tax Institute's goal each year is to bring the best tax practitioners in the country together to keep us all current.
"The USC Law Institute on Federal Taxation is a nationally acclaimed continuing legal education program designed to bring busy tax professionals up-to-date quickly and effectively, and to provide a forum for the exchange of vital information, perspectives and strategies," adds USC Law Assistant Dean Richard S. Shaffran, who leads the school's Continuing Legal Education Program.
The CLE Program produces six major institutes and conferences focusing on entertainment law and business; representation of business organizations; probate, trust and estate planning; computers and the Internet; federal tax practice and policy; and real estate law and business.
Members of the press are invited and encouraged to attend the Institute on Federal Taxation by requesting a complimentary ticket. Please contact Phat Chiem in the external relations office at USC Law School at (213) 740-9690. For a complete schedule of program sessions and times, please visit the Institute's Web site: http://weblaw.usc.edu/academics/cle/tax.cfm.
