For Immediate Release
May 26, 2011

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Albert G. Lauber

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Albert G. Lauber, director of the graduate tax and securities programs and visiting professor at Georgetown University Law Center, has been nominated by President Obama to serve as a judge on the United States Tax Court.

"Albert is one of those lawyers who can do it all," said Georgetown Law Dean William M. Treanor.  "He has been a tireless director of our graduate programs in tax and securities, while always remaining focused on the needs of our students.  He will be an enormous asset to the U.S. Tax Court."

 

Prior to joining the Law Center in 2006, Lauber spent 17 years as a partner at Caplin & Drysdale, a Washington, D.C., tax firm.  There, he specialized in tax litigation at the trial and appellate levels, tax procedure, taxation of non-profit organizations, state and local taxation and constitutional law.  From 1983 to 1988, he worked at the U.S. Department of Justice, first as Tax Assistant to the Solicitor General and later as Deputy Solicitor General.  He served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun and previously to Judge Malcolm R. Wilkey of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Lauber received a B.A. from Yale, an M.A. in Classics from Clare College, Cambridge and a J.D. from Yale Law School.

 

 

About Georgetown University Law Center 

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