The Tax Faculty

Lewis & Clark is fortunate to have an excellent tax faculty. This presently includes three full-time professors with a strong interest in tax, and a band of talented and dedicated adjunct tax professors.

Full-Time Tax Faculty

The tax faculty at Lewis & Clark Law School offer an exceptional combination of excellence in teaching, scholarly achievement, and experience in practice. Its three full-time tax professors possess close to 100 years of teaching and practice experience in this ever-changing, ever-challenging field.

Adjunct Tax Faculty

At Lewis & Clark Law School, dynamic practitioners enrich the classroom experience by teaching tax-related courses from a practical perspective.

At Lewis & Clark Law School, dynamic practitioners enrich the classroom experience by teaching tax-related courses from a practical perspective. The current roster of adjunct professors includes several Portland practitioners with national reputations.

Christopher P. Cline, who leads the law school's Estate Planning seminar, is a nationally known estate planner and a leader of the Oregon bar. A partner in the Portland office of the law firm Holland & Knight and a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, Cline is a frequent speaker and author on wealth management and charitable giving topics. Cline is listed as one of The Best Lawyers in America, and is often quoted as an authority by the mainstream media throughout the country on matters relating to trusts and estates. A product of the San Francisco Bay Area, he received his law degree from Hastings College of the Law.

Gersham Goldstein teaches Advanced Corporate Taxation. A partner with Stoel Rives, Goldstein concentrates his practice primarily in federal and state taxation matters, including income taxation of individuals, partnerships and corporations, and estate planning. He is editor in chief of the Journal of Corporate Taxation and compiler of the Index to Federal Tax Articles. Goldstein collaborated with Professors Boris I. Bittker and James S. Eustice to produce the seventh edition of Federal Income Taxation of Corporations and Shareholders. An extensive lecturer to tax institutes and bar groups, he has also been a faculty member of the Graduate Tax Workshop at New York University School of Law for many years. Selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America, Goldstein earned his bachelor’s degree from City College of New York, his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and his LL.M. in taxation from New York University School of Law.

Philip N. Jones brings to his course, Federal Tax Procedure, more than 30 years’ experience as a tax lawyer. He is a partner in the law firm of Duffy Kekel, with a practice emphasizing tax controversies in all levels of federal courts (including the U.S. Supreme Court) and estate planning. He publishes scholarly tax articles on federal tax litigation questions, and he is a frequent speaker at continuing education programs on taxation. Jones earned his bachelor’s degree from Lewis & Clark College and his J.D. from Lewis & Clark Law School.

Several of the law school's key advisors are also prominent tax professionals. These and other friends of the law school generously counsel students with an interest in taxation and provide guidance and perspective to the tax law program.

Ray Benner, a 1966 graduate of the law school and a long-time dean of retirement planners in Oregon, advises the law school on curricular matters relating to pension law.

Henry Breithaupt, the judge of the Oregon Tax Court, is an adviser to the law school on moot courts and similar tax-related programs.

Bruce Crocker, vice president, taxes, of the Hillman Company and an alumnus of the law school, serves as a member of the law school’s Board of Visitors.

Carr Ferguson, vice chair of the Lewis & Clark College Board of Trustees and past chair and current member of the law school Board of Visitors, is senior counsel in the New York law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell and former assistant U.S. attorney general in charge of taxation.

Alan Jensen, former member of the law school faculty and currently a partner in the Portland office of the international law firm Holland & Knight, serves as a liaison between the law school’s tax program and the practitioner community.

Wayne Perry, who graduated from the law school with honors in 1975 and went on to obtain a master’s degree in taxation, is chief executive officer of Edge Wireless and former vice chairman of NEXTLINK and AT&T Wireless. In 2005, Mr. Perry was honored as the law school's first Distinguished Business Law Graduate.

Mack Shively, assistant general counsel of Portland General Electric Company, Oregon’s largest electric utility, is an alumnus of the law school, the holder of a master’s degree in taxation, and a member of the Board of Visitors.