Tony Luppino
Anthony J. "Tony" Luppino | |
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Rubey M. Hulen Professor of Law | |
Director, Entrepreneurship Programs at UMKC | |
Personal details | |
Alma mater | Stanford University School of Law |
Profession | Professor of law |
Website | law |
Anthony J. "Tony" Luppino is an American lawyer, law professor, and entrepreneur.
Education
Luppino received his A.B. from Dartmouth College, graduating magna cum laude in 1979. He was accepted to Stanford Law School, becoming an editor of the Stanford Law Review and receiving his J.D.in 1982. Returning to Massachusetts, he became an associate attorney at the Boston law firm Herrick and Smith, from 1982-86. While practicing, he earned his LL.M. in Taxation from Boston University School of Law in 1986, resuming his editorial duties for the Boston University Journal of Tax Law. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity.[1]
Professional career
After completing his LL.M., Tony accepted a position at the midwest law firm Brown, Koralchik and Fingersh, in Overland Park, Kansas in 1986, becoming a Partner in 1988. When the firm diverged a year later, he became a Partner in the new offshoot firm of Lewis, Rice and Fingersh in Kansas City, Missouri, where he practiced from 1989-94. His final role in private practice was as a member of the Lewis, Rice and Fingersh L.C., from 1994-2001.[2]
Luppino joined the faculty of the University of Missouri, Kansas City Law School in 1994, where he taught Partnership Taxation as an adjunct faculty member until 2001. He then became an Associate Professor from fall of 2001 until fall of 2010, awarded tenure in 2005, before being promoted to Full Professor in fall 2010.[3]
Since 2006, Luppino has focused on bringing together faculty from different departments at UMKC to teach entrepreneurship to law, business, and technology students, and on spurring students to create innovative solutions to challenges faced by the local community. With funding from the Kauffman Foundation and support from other academics globally, he created the Legal Technology Laboratory, a consortium focused on identifying opportunities for technical solutions in the business and civic sectors.[4] On February 3, 2017, Luppino was honored as UM System Entrepreneurship Educator of the Year.[5] In 2022, Luppino created a competition centered on providing affordable access to high-speed Internet to residents and businesses in Northwestern Missouri. According to Luppino, the competition “provided an opportunity for the students to demonstrate their knowledge, talents and teamwork in a service-learning experience focused on a critically important subject.”[6]
References
- ^ "Anthony J. Luppino | School of Law | University of Missouri - Kansas City". law.umkc.edu. Retrieved 2022-11-30.
- ^ https://law.umkc.edu/docs/luppinovitae.pdf
- ^ https://law.umkc.edu/docs/luppinovitae.pdf
- ^ Zagier, Alan Scher (2020-12-21). "2020 Top Legal Innovations: Anthony Luppino - Missouri Lawyers Media". Retrieved 2022-11-30.
- ^ "UMKC Law Professor is first UM System Entrepreneurship Educator of the Year | University of Missouri System". www.umsystem.edu. Retrieved 2022-11-30.
- ^ "Students compete on broadband expansion plans for NW Missouri". extension.missouri.edu. Retrieved 2022-11-30.