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Wall Street Journal Details Role of Tax Lawyers in Tax Shelters

Paul Caron

Wednesday, August 18, 2004

A front page story in today’s Wall Street Journal details the role of tax lawyer Raymond J. “R.J.” Ruble of Brown & Wood in writing over 600 tax opinions used to market tax shelters like “BLIPS,” “OPIS” and “FLIPS” sold by KMPG. (Check out the unkind shot at tax lawyers: “Mr. Ruble, 59 years old, doesn’t fit the stereotype of a tax lawyer, colleagues say, in part because of his youthful demeanor and affability.”)

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Paul Caron
Paul Caron was named Duane and Kelly Roberts Dean of Pepperdine University School of Law on June 1, 2017. Dean Caron joined the Pepperdine faculty in 2013 after serving as the Dorothy and Leonard Straus Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law in the spring semesters of 2010 through 2013. He served as Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development at Pepperdine in 2015-2017. Before coming to Pepperdine, he was Associate Dean of Faculty and Charles Hartsock Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law.
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    Sean O’Shea

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