John A. (Jack) Bogdanski

Jack Bogdanski is the Douglas K. Newell Faculty Scholar and a professor of law at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon. He has taught at Lewis & Clark since leaving practice as a partner with the law firm Stoel Rives LLP in Portland in 1986. He has served as a visiting professor of law at Stanford University and Santa Clara 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. Student teams he has coached have perennially excelled at the Law Student Tax Challenge, sponsored by the Taxation Section of the American Bar Association; and the National Tax Moot Court Competition, sponsored by the Florida Bar.

Bogdanski is a former member of the Commissioner's Advisory Group of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. He is the author of the treatise Federal Tax Valuation (Warren, Gorham & Lamont 1996; updated semi-annually), and the editor-in-chief of the bimonthly journal Valuation Strategies. He has written many articles on federal tax law, and he is the Closely Held Businesses and Valuation columnist for Estate Planning magazine. He has been a frequent speaker at continuing education programs on tax law and valuation of property.

Bogdanski is a native of Newark, N.J. He graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Classical Languages and Literature from St. Peter's College in Jersey City in 1975. He received his law 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. 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. Bogdanski lives in Northeast Portland with his wife, Nolee Olson, and their daughters, Ella and Greta Bogdanski.

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Update: 12 Feb 10
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