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Tax Institute

Tax Institute

Ed McCaffery
USC Law Professor
2007 Tax Institute

January 25-27, 2010
Wilshire Grand Los Angeles


2010 Tax Institute

Join over 50 speakers and 500 of your professional peers to address cutting edge tax issues affecting corporations, privately held companies, partnerships and real estate, individuals, tax ethics and compliance, and estate planning. This three-day institute features popular morning updates on current developments, afternoon breakouts sessions, nine intimate evening workshops and two networking receptions. CE units for lawyers, accountants and financial planners, and legal specialization credit in Taxation Law and Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Law, are available. For a copy of the most recent Tax Institute brochure, click here. We also have a sneek peek of the 2010 program available by clicking here.

Multi-Day Tracked Programming


  • Monday - Business Tax Planning Monday's sessions will focus on corporate and business tax planning issues, and with separate programming tracks on tax planning for large corporations and for privately held businesses. Mark Silverman of Steptoe & Johnson will bring us up to date on current developments in corporate tax Monday morning, and Edward Kleinbard, USC Law Professor and Former Chief of Staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation, will provide the luncheon address. The day will be capped by a hosted networking reception and intimate evening workshops.
  • Partnerships, Individual, and Ethics
    Tuesday will feature three concurrent tracks of programming, focused on partnerships and real estate, individual tax planning, and ethics, compliance and enforcement issues. Blake Rubin of McDermott Will & Emery will open Tuesday morning with an in-depth review of current developments in partnership tax planning. Karen Hawkins, Director of the IRS Office of Professional Responsibility, will speak at lunch. The day will end with a hosted networking reception and evening workshops.
  • Estate Planning
    Wednesday remains dedicated to estate planning issues. Jeffrey Pennell, the Richard H. Clark Professor of Law at Emory University's School of Law, will provide his trademark morning update. Edward McCaffery, Robert C. Packard Trustee Chair in Law and Professor of Law, Economics and Political Science at USC Law, Visiting Professor of Law and Economics at the California Institute of Technology and Of Counsel at Seyfarth Shaw LLP, will provide the luncheon address.

Online Registration