John A. "Bojack" Bogdanski | |
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Born | Newark, New Jersey, U.S. |
Education | |
Occupation(s) | Lawyer, academic, blogger |
Employer | Lewis & Clark Law School |
Notable work | "Federal Tax Valuation" |
John A.Bogdanski is an American lawyer and academic. He is a professor of law and the Douglas K. Newell Faculty Scholar at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon, United States.
Bogdanski is a native of Newark, New Jersey. He graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Classical Languages and Literature from Saint Peter's College, New Jersey in 1975.[ citation needed ] He received his Juris Doctor degree in 1978 from Stanford Law School, where he was an editor of the Stanford Law Review and a member of the honor society The Order of the Coif.[ citation needed ] In 1978–79, he served as a law clerk to judge Alfred T. Goodwin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.[ citation needed ]
He has taught at Lewis & Clark since leaving practice as a partner with the law firm Stoel Rives LLP in Portland in 1986. [1] In fall 1992, he was a visiting professor of law at Stanford University, and in the fall of 1999, he was of counsel to Stoel Rives on a full-time basis. His primary teaching and research emphasis is on federal taxes. He is a five-time winner of Lewis & Clark's Leo Levenson Award for excellence in law teaching, most recently in 2003.
Bogdanski is a former member of the Commissioner's Advisory Group of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.[ citation needed ]
Bogdanski has been referred to as a "notable local blogger," [2] having published Jack Bog's Blog [3] since 2002. [4] He has described his politics as centrist [4] and once estimated that he visits dozens of blogs per day researching stories. [5] He was interviewed on local blogging by Oregon Public Broadcasting's Oregon Territory in 2004, [6] and was the only blogger quoted in an OPB radio story on the topic in 2007. [7]
He has written articles on federal tax law, and he is the Closely Held Businesses and Valuation columnist for Estate Planning. [8] He has been a frequent speaker at continuing education programs on tax law. He is cited as an expert on taxation in national news stories. [9] He was a founder of the group "People Against Nuclear Dumping at Hanford" in the 1980s. [1]
He is the author of the treatise Federal Tax Valuation [10] and was the editor-in-chief of the journal Valuation Strategies. [11] [12]
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