Dr. Marcia Ruben, Assistant Professor and Chair of GGU’s Graduate Management Program, speaks with Robert Patterson—an MS Taxation alumnus and Director and Worldwide Tax & Trade Controller at Microsoft—about his life and career. Robert (MST ’04), has enjoyed a storied career as a tax practitioner. Currently, he serves as a Microsoft director, ensuring internal control […]
In February 2020 (read: pre-COVID-19-pandemic and the California shelter-in-place order taking hold), I was lucky enough to sit down with Nathan Pastor (JD ’14, LLM ’16, right) to discuss a case that resulted in a seismic shift in California probate law—Barefoot v. Jennings. The audio recording and transcript of that interview, as well as a […]
Introduction The Editorial Board of the GGU Tax & Estate Planning Review had originally planned for this interview to serve as the formal launch event of the Journal back in March of 2020. It goes without saying that COVID-19 got in the way of those plans. Thankfully, Submissions Editor Steven Reading was able to connect […]