IRA B. SHEPARD
 University of Houston Law Center
Houston, Texas

IRA B. SHEPARD - has been at the University of Houston Law Center since 1975, where he is a professor of law. Before that he taught at the University of Georgia School of Law (1971-75); he was a visiting professor at the University of North Carolina Law School, 1980-81.

Ira received his baccalaureate degree from Harvard College in 1958 and his law degree from Harvard University in 1964, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. He practiced in New York City with the firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison from 1964 to 1971.

He has been the Special Advisor to the Southern Federal Tax Institute since 1974. He has chaired the Continuing Legal Education and Research Committee of the American Bar Association Tax Section and the planning committee for the University of Texas Tax Conference, and has been president of the Wednesday Tax Forum. He currently sits on the boards of the (Houston) International Tax Forum and the Houston Bar Association Tax Section. He is a fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel.

Professor Shepard regularly speaks on recent tax developments at numerous tax institutes, including the University of Denver Tax Institute, the University of Texas Tax Conference, University of North Carolina Tax Institute, the Tennessee Federal Tax Institute, the American Institute on Federal Taxation, the Southern Federal Tax Institute, the Tulane Tax Institute, and the William and Mary Tax Conference. He also speaks regularly at programs sponsored by Tax Executives Institute, the American Petroleum Institute, the Houston Bar Association Tax Section, the Austin Tax Forum, the Austin Chapter of the Texas Society of CPAs, the University of Houston Law Foundation, and the Wednesday Tax Forum. He has also lectured at the Virginia Tax Conference, the New Mexico Tax Conference, the New Mexico Tax Institute, the Alabama Tax Conference, the Kentucky Tax Institute, the Lewis & Clark Tax Institute, the Ohio [AICPA] Tax Institute, the Columbus (Ohio) Tax Institute, the NYU Tax Institute, and the Hawaii Tax Institute, as well as on programs sponsored by ALI-ABA, PLI, the IRS, and the Federal Bar Association.