Experience

Gersham Goldstein concentrates his practice primarily in federal and state taxation matters, including income taxation of individuals, partnerships and corporations, and estate planning. He represents taxpayers in federal and state tax controversies and has a substantial tax planning and advisory practice. He is editor in chief of the Journal of Corporate Taxation and compiler of the Index to Federal Tax Articles. He 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, Gersham was the Charles S. Lyon Visiting Professor of Taxation from Practice at New York University Law School in the fall of 1991, and has also been a faculty member of the New York University Law School Graduate Tax Workshop for many years. Gersham was selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America for 20 years.

Professional Activities

Fellow and Ninth Circuit Regent of the American College of Tax Counsel; member, Tax Section, American Bar Association (formerly a member of Council; formerly chairman, Committee on the Standards of Tax Practice; formerly vice chair of Publications and in that capacity was editor in chief of The Tax Lawyer volumes 52 and 53); member, Oregon State Bar Association, American Law Institute, International Fiscal Association and National Tax Association - Tax Institute of America; president, Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society (2002-2004).

Education

LL.M., Taxation, New York University School of Law, 1964

LL.B., cum laude, University of Pennsylvania Law School, 1962

B.B.A., City College of New York, 1959

James Madison High School, Brooklyn, New York, 1955

Admissions

State bar of Oregon

U.S. Tax Court

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