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I. Petitioners22
A. Burton W. Kanter (STJ report at 18-20)
Petitioner Burton W. Kanter is an attorney who has
continuously been engaged in the practice of law at Chicago,
Illinois, since about 1956. He received a J.D. degree from the
University of Chicago in 1952. From 1952 to 1954, he was a
teaching associate at the University of Indiana Law School. From
1954 to 1956, he was an attorney-adviser with the U.S. Tax Court
at Washington, D.C. Since 1956, his law practice has been at
Chicago, Illinois. His primary expertise is in Federal income
and estate taxation. From 1964 to 1981, Kanter was a name
partner in the law firm Levenfeld & Kanter, which later became
Levenfeld, Kanter, Baskes & Lippitz. That firm dissolved in
1981, and Kanter thereafter practiced with the firm of Kanter &
Eisenberg. As of the time of trial, Kanter was serving in an “of
counsel” capacity with the Chicago firm of Neal, Gerber &
Eisenberg.
At the time of trial and for the past 10 years, Kanter
taught courses in estate and gift taxation and estate planning at
22 The STJ report, at 15, opened with recommended findings
of fact concerning Investment Research Associates, Ltd. (IRA).
This report begins with findings of fact concerning the
backgrounds of Kanter, Ballard, and Lisle, followed by findings
of fact concerning IRA and other entities that Kanter employed in
the transactions in dispute (hereinafter sometimes referred to as
Kanter-related entities).
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