The Senate has unanimously confirmed the nominations of two new Tax Court Judges:

Ronald L Buch, Jr.
(Partner, Bingham McCutchen):  Ronald Buch
is a partner at Bingham McCutchen LLP, where he principally represents
clients in tax controversy matters. He joined Bingham in 2009 when it
combined with McKee Nelson LLP, where he had worked on tax controversy
matters since 2001. He also currently serves as an adjunct law professor
at Georgetown University Law Center, teaching Tax Practice and
Procedure (Administrative Practice) and Tax Research and Writing. Prior
to joining McKee Nelson, Mr. Buch worked as an attorney with the IRS
Office of Chief Counsel, where his work included representing the IRS
before the United States Tax Court. Mr. Buch is a former Chair of the
Administrative Practice Committee of the American Bar Association
Section of Taxation and the District of Columbia Bar Association
Taxation Section’s Tax Audits and Litigation Committee. Mr. Buch
received a B.BA. from Northwood University, a J.D. from Michigan State
University College of Law, and an LL.M. in Taxation from Capital
University Law School.

ALbert Lauber 
(Director, Graduate Tax Program, Georgetown):  Albert Lauber is
the Director of the Graduate Tax and Securities Programs and a Visiting
Professor of Law at Georgetown Law School. Previously, Mr. Lauber spent
17 years as a partner in Caplin & Drysdale, a Washington D.C. tax
firm. There, he specialized in tax litigation at the trial and appellate
levels, tax procedure, taxation of non-profit organizations, state and
local taxation, and constitutional law. From 1983 to 1988, he served in
the U.S. Department of Justice as Deputy Solicitor General and
previously as Tax Assistant to the Solicitor General. He was a law clerk
to Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun, and Judge Malcolm R.
Wilkey, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He received a B.A.
and a J.D. from Yale University and Master’s degrees from Clare College
and Cambridge University.