The ABA Tax Section May Meeting concludes today in Washington, D.C. The full program is here.  Highlights of the meeting were:

• The Laurence Neal Woodworth Memorial Lecture in United States Tax Law and Policy on Tax Policy in the 21st Century: Challenges and Changes from the Time of Larry Woodworth by Thomas Barthold (Chief of Staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation)
• Presentation of the 2010 Distinguished Service Award to Ronald Pearlman (Georgetown)
• The Tax Prof dinner hosted by Jonathan Forman (Oklahoma), the 2009-10 IRS Chief Counsel Professor in Residence:

Tax Profs with speaking roles at the May Meeting include:

• Affiliated & Related Corporations: Consolidated Return Issues for Troubled Companies— Don Leatherman (Tennessee)
• Bankruptcy & Workouts: Problems Encountered by Taxpayers Who Owe the IRS— Keith Fogg (Villanova) 
• Employee Benefits Distributions Update — Kathryn Kennedy (John Marshall (Chicago))
• Exempt Organizations: Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights in a Charitable Context — Evelyn Brody (Chicago-Kent)
• Exempt Organizations: The Plight of Newspapers: Can Tax-Exempt Organizations Help?— Harvey Dale (NYU)
• Exempt Organizations Subcommittees on Political and Lobbying Organizations and Religious Organizations: Politics and the Pulpit — Lloyd Mayer (Notre Dame)
• Fiduciary Income Tax: Death of a Partner: Income Tax Traps and Exit Strategies— Jerome Hesch (Miami)
• Individual & Family Income Taxation: Look Homeward, Angel: Hot Issues for Homeowners— Bobby Dexter (Chapman), Mona Hymel (Arizona), Michael Lang (Chapman), Peter Prescott (Indiana-Indianapolis)
• Individual & Family Income Taxation: The Shrinking Distinction between Physical Injury, Mental Anguish, Emotional Distress and Pain and Suffering— Christopher Pietruszkiewicz (LSU), David Rice (Cal Poly Tech)
• Low Income Taxpayers: Regulation Making and Challenges— Keith Fogg (Villanova), Kristin Hickman (Minnesota)
• Low Income Taxpayers: Taxing Private Ryan— Francine Lipman (Chapman), George Willis (Chapman)
• Low Income Taxpayers Workshop: Filing a Refund Claim and a Refund Suit — Keith Blair (Baltimore)
• Low Income Taxpayers Workshop: Making a Claim for Attorney's Fees— Sandy Freund (Rutgers-Newark), Robin Westbrook (American)
• Low Income Taxpayers Workshop: Whistleblower Claims— Michelle Kwon (Texas Tech)
• Pro Bono: Dealing With Client Fraud & Misrepresentation— Les Book (Villanova) 
• Sales, Exchanges & Basis: Current Non-Section 1031 Developments — Erik Jensen (Case Western)
• Sales, Exchanges & Basis: Like-Kind Exchange Current Developments — Bradley Borden (Washburn; moving to Brooklyn)
• State & Local Taxes: Sourcing Receipts for Services: Update on Cost-of-Performance and Policy Issues Confronting the States— Richard Pomp (UConn) 
• Task Force on Patenting Tax Strategies— Ellen Aprill (Loyola-L.A.). John Duffy (George Washington), Michael Lang (Chapman)
• Tax Bridge to Practice: Breaking Up Is (Not So) Hard to Do — Thomas White (Virginia)
• Tax Bridge to Practice: Facing the Uncertainties of Accounting for Tax Uncertainties (Keynote Lecture) — Tracey Kaye (Seton Hall)
• Tax Bridge to Practice: Straight Talk on Tax: Is It For Me?—  Randle Pollard (Widener)
• Tax Policy & Simplification: Are State VATs Viable?— Richard Ainsworth (Boston University), Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan), Richard Pomp (UConn), Kirk Stark (UCLA)
• Tax Policy & Simplification: Will Healthcare Reform Hurt Tax Policy? — Roberta Mann (Oregon)
• Teaching Taxation: The Good, the Bad and the Inconsistent: An Analysis of Education Tax Policy — Kerry Ryan (St. Louis), Nancy Shurtz (Oregon)