Concert Report #2

Concert Report #2

Victor Zonana was born and raised in Egypt. He immigrated to the United States in 1956, attended his last year of hign school (learning to speak English along the way) and was graduated from Hofstra College in 1961. Since graduation from law school (NYU '64 and '66) Victor has devoted his professional life to pursuing various facets of the tax law -- as a full-time academician, as a practitioner with major law firms and one of the "big four" accounting firms, and as a high level government official. He brings to the classroom a wealth of experience and an approach to the materials that is based on a rigorous analysis of technical and tax policy issues blended with the requisite practical considerations to solve difficult problems.
Victor's full-time teaching experience commenced 40 years ago when he first joined the Law School's faculty after a brief stint as a tax associate with a New York law firm (to which he would return some years later as a partner). He spent the next 11 years teaching a variety of tax courses in both the JD and graduate tax programs (1969-81). A post-tenure sabbatical in 1975-76 turned into a leave of absence to serve as Deputy Tax Legislative Counsel at the Treasury Department. Upon returning from government, he co-taught a Tax Policy seminar for three years with a former colleague from the Treasury Department, the late David Bradford who had returned to Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School. At NYU, he also served as Editor-in-Chief of the Tax Law Review and as Director of the first five Graduate Tax Workshops .

In 1981, Victor returned to private practice, first as a Partner and head of the Tax Department at Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hay & Handler (1981-87) and later as a Senior Partner with Arnold & Porter in its New York office (1988-1996). In the Spring of 1994, while on sabbatical from his firm, he served as the Charles S. Lyon Visiting Professor at the Law School and as a Consultant to the Office of the Chief Counsel of the Internal...

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