John A. "Jack" Bogdanski is an American lawyer and academic. He is currently professor of law at

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, United States.

Career

Bogdanski is a native of

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in 1975. He received his

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degree in 1978 from

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, where he was an editor of the ''

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'' and a member of the honor society The

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. In 1978–79, he served as a law clerk to judge

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of the

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for the

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. He has taught at Lewis & Clark since leaving practice as a partner with the law firm

Stoel Rives Stoel Rives LLP is a U.S. business law firm with 10 office locations in seven U.S. states and Washington, D.C. Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, in the Park Avenue West Tower, it is the largest law firm in the state of Oregon, having 391 attorn ...

LLP in Portland in 1986. In fall 1992, he was a visiting professor of law at

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, and in the fall of 1999, he was of counsel to Stoel Rives on a full-time basis. His primary teaching and research emphasis is on federal taxes. He is a five-time winner of Lewis & Clark's Leo Levenson Award for excellence in law teaching, most recently in 2003. Bogdanski is a former member of the Commissioner's Advisory Group of the U.S.

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Blogging and published works

Bogdanski has been referred to as a "notable local blogger," having publishe
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and once estimated that he visits dozens of blogs per day researching stories. He was interviewed on local blogging by

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's ''Oregon Territory'' in 2004 and was the only blogger quoted in an OPB radio story on the topic in 2007. He has also been quoted by the commentator

Michelle Malkin Michelle Malkin (; Maglalang; born October 20, 1970) is an American conservative political commentator. She was a Fox News contributor and in May 2020 joined Newsmax TV. Malkin has written seven books and founded the conservative websites Twit ...

. He has written many articles on federal tax law, and he is the Closely Held Businesses and Valuation columnist for ''Estate Planning''. He has been a frequent speaker at continuing education programs on tax law. He is cited as an expert on taxation in national news stories. He was a founder of the group "People Against Nuclear Dumping at Hanford" in the 1980s. He is the author of the treatise ''Federal Tax Valuation'' and the editor-in-chief of the journal ''Valuation Strategies''.Valuation Strategies
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Personal life

Bogdanski lives in Northeast Portland with his wife, Nolee Olson. They have two children.

References

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