Over 40 Years of Distinguished Service Reach Out Today
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James Monroe

Attorney at Law

Bar Associations

  • Member of American Bar Association - Taxation Section

  • Member of Florida Bar Association

  • Member of Iowa Bar Association

Education

  • New York University - Master of Laws (Taxation)

  • University of Iowa - Juris Doctor (Order of Coif)

  • University of Denver - Master of Science (Business Administration)

  • University of Northern Iowa - Bachelor of Arts (Business)

Academic Positions

  • Supervising Attorney - Drake University Low Income Taxpayer Clinic (2012 - 2014)

  • Professor of Law - Drake University Law School (1984 - 2014)

  • Associate Professor of Law - Drake University Law School (1981 - 1984)

  • Instructor - CLU-CLFC Courses, American College of Life Underwriters (1979 - 1986)

Courses Taught

  • Federal Income Tax

  • Business TaX

  • Income Tax Clinic

  • Business Planning

  • Negotiations

  • Taxation of Corporate Reorganizations

  • State and Local Taxation

  • Federal Tax Procedure

  • Agricultural Tax Seminars

  • Wills and Trusts

Publications

  • Tax Anatomy of Debt Restructuring - 42 Arkansas Law Review 1 (1989)

  • Chapter 27A - Real Property Tax Appeals in American Law of Real Property, Edited by Arthur Gaudio, (1993)

  • Paper Presented on Farm Tax Restructuring

  • Self-Employment Tax Avoidance - Iowa State Bar Association Tax School

  • Presented Paper on Nonfiler Study to IRS National Research Conference

  • Restructuring of Agricultural Enterprises - From a Tax Perspective - Drake

  • Agricultural Law Journal

Seminars - Examples

  • Drake University - Agricultural Law - Form of Business; New Developments;

  • Restructuring Farm Businesses

  • Iowa State Bar Association - Annual Review - Federal Taxes; Deductibility of Expense for Small Businesses; Life Insurance Trusts; Like/Kind Exchange

  • IRS National Research Conference - Presentation on Nonfilers