Jack Bogdanski

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John A. Bogdanski
Born
Education
Occupation(s)Lawyer, academic
EmployerLewis & 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.

Career[edit]

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]

Blogging and published works[edit]

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]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Dorn Steele, Karen (July 11, 1986). "Hearing turns into rally against Hanford". Spokane Chronicle. pp. 3–4 – via Google News.
  2. ^ Sarasohn, David (October 6, 2012). "Measure 84: A suspicious death case without a body". The Oregonian. Archived from the original on April 11, 2021. Retrieved June 10, 2021.
  3. ^ Jaynes, Dwight (November 1, 2005). "You don't know Jack". Portland Tribune. Archived from the original on March 18, 2007. Retrieved May 9, 2007.
  4. ^ a b Woodward, Steve (July 6, 2004). "Blogger thinks about logging off" (PDF). The Oregonian. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 17, 2012.
  5. ^ Jaynes, Dwight (November 1, 2005). "Blogs that drew in Jack Bog". Portland Tribune.[permanent dead link]
  6. ^ "When Weblogs Collide". December 16, 2004. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved October 29, 2012.
  7. ^ Lindsey, Ethan (October 29, 2007). "Study Finds Oregon, Portland Are Blog Mecca". Oregon Public Broadcasting. Archived from the original on October 31, 2017.
  8. ^ Estate Planning
  9. ^ "Palin tax returns prompt questions". United Press International. October 6, 2008. Archived from the original on December 4, 2008.
  10. ^ Bogdanski, John A. (1996). Federal tax valuation. Boston, MA: Warren Gorham & Lamont. ISBN 978-0791326008. LCCN 95062377.
  11. ^ Valuation Strategies