David Laro is a senior judge of the United States Tax Court

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Laro graduated from the University of Michigan

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 in 1964, earned a J.D.

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 from the University of Illinois Law School in 1967 and an LL.M. in Taxation from New York University Law School in 1970.

He was admitted to Michigan Bar, and United States District Court (Eastern District) in 1968. He was a partner in the law firm

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 of Winegarden, Booth, Shedd, and Laro from 1970-75; member of the law firm of Laro and Borgeson from 1975-86; and a solo practitioner from 1986-92.

Laro was appointed by President George H. W. Bush

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 as Judge, United States Tax Court, on November 2, 1992, for a term ending November 1, 2007. Following the end of this term, he continues to serve as a senior judge on the court.

International taxation work

At the request of the American Bar Association

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 and the Central and Eastern European Law Initiative, Laro contributed written comments on the Draft Laws of Ukraine

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 and Uzbekistan

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 and on the creation of specialized courts in Eastern Europe

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. As a consultant for Harvard University

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 (Harvard Institute for International Development

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), and Georgia State University

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, he lectured in Moscow

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 to Russia

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n judges on the subject of tax reform and litigation procedures in May 1997 and December 1998. Laro is a commentator for the American Bar Association's Central and East European Law Initiative on the draft laws of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan

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, Slovakia

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, Ukraine, and the Republic of Macedonia

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. He has lectured to Judges and tax officials in Azerbaijan

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 on tax reform.

Other activities

• Counsel to Dykema Gossett, Ann Arbor, MI, 1989-90
• President and chief executive officer of Durakon Industries, Inc., 1989-91
• Chairman, Board of Durakon Industries, Inc., 1991-92
• Chairman, Board of Republic Bank, 1986-92
• Vice Chairman and Co-Founder of Republic Bancorp, Inc. 1986-92
• Regent, University of Michigan Board of Regents
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  , 1975-81
• Member, Michigan State Board of Education, 1982-83
• Chairman, Michigan State Tenure Commission, 1972-75
• Commissioner, Civil Service Commission, Flint, MI, 1984-85
• Commissioner of Police, Flint, 1972-74
• Member, Political Leadership Program, Institute of Public Policy and Social Research
• Member, Ann Arbor Art Association Board of Directors
• Member, Holocaust Foundation (Ann Arbor)
• Adjunct professor of law, Georgetown University Law School
• Instructor, National Institute for Trial Advocacy
• Visiting professor, University of San Diego Law School
• Member, National Advisory Committee for New York University Law School.

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