The ABA Tax Section yesterday released the winners of the 2009 Law Student Tax Challenge:
The LSTC is a national tax planning and client-counseling competition designed to more closely reflect everyday tax practice than traditional moot court competitions. The semi-final and final rounds of the 2009 LSTC took place in January of 2010 in San Antonio, Texas during the Section of Taxation Midyear Meeting. …
“We were pleased this year to have more teams than ever before competing,” said Stuart M. Lewis, chair of the ABA Tax Section. “Forty-three J.D. teams and 26 LL.M. teams submitted their solutions to a challenging, complex tax planning problem that involved individual and business entity issues,” he said.
J.D. Division:
- 1st Place: Western New England – Brendan Sponheimer & James Murtha (Frederick Royal, faculty coach)
- 2nd Place: Temple — Sara Steinberger & Travis Wheeler (Kathy Mandelbaum, faculty coach)
- 3rd Place: Hamline — Kaitlyn Wahlsten & Jonathan Heinonen (Morgan Holcomb, faculty coach)
- Best Written Submission: Western New England – Neill O’Brien & Casey Nunez (Frederick Royal, faculty coach)
- Runner-Up Best Written Submission: Denver — Bryan Jensen & Scott Valent (Alicia Buckingham, faculty coach)
- Semi-finalist #1: Memphis — Joe Aaron Mullis & Kevin Henson (William Kratzke, faculty coach)
- Semi-finalist #2: Denver — Bryan Jensen & Scott Valent (Alicia Buckingham, faculty coach)
- Semi-finalist #3: Western New England — Neill O’Brien & Casey Nunez (Frederick Royal, coach)
LL.M. Division:
- 1st Place: Missouri-Kansas-City — Nicole Forsythe & Ryan White (right) (Judith Wiseman, faculty coach)
- 2nd Place: San Diego — Henry Chen & Irina Goldberg (Richard Shaw, faculty coach)
- Best Written Submission: Missouri-Kansas City — Nicole Forsythe & Ryan White (Judith Wiseman, faculty coach)
- Finalist #1: Georgetown – Hiram Powers & Joshua Erlich (Martin Ginsburg, faculty coach)
- Finalist #2: Temple – Nina Garonski & James Vandermark (Kathy Mandelbaum, faculty coach)
Participating Schools:
- Alabama
- Baltimore
- Boston College
- Chapman
- Chicago
- Columbia
- Denver
- Florida
- Florida Coastal
- Golden Gate
- Georgetown
- Hamline
- Indiana-Bloomington
- LaVerne
- Lewis & Clark
- Maryland
- Miami
- Michigan State
- Missouri-Kenas City
- New England
- New York University
- Northwestern
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pittsburgh
- Quinnipiac
- Rutgers-Newark
- San Diego
- St. Louis
- Temple
- Tulane
- UC-Davis
- Western New England
- Villanova
More pictures below the fold:
2nd Place LL.M. Team: San Diego — Henry Chen & Irina Goldberg
