Anne Beaudoin, US Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management<\/h3>\n
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As a student in her second year at Suffolk University School of Law, Anne Beaudoin took her first basic tax course. The class sparked her interest, and she realized how much she enjoyed learning about tax law. That summer, Beaudoin was hired as a summer intern at the US Tax Court in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n
Her time working in DC deepened her interest in tax law, though she did not immediately enter the field. After graduating from Suffolk, she first practiced real estate law, and then worked at a small accounting firm for several years. After the birth of her two daughters, Beaudoin realized that an LLM in Taxation could benefit her career, and started contemplating going back to school. The GTP\u2019s reputation and high rankings influenced Beaudoin\u2019s decision to enroll at BU Law in 2010.<\/p>\n
The year she enrolled, Beaudoin\u2019s daughters were one and four years old. On top of her responsibilities as a parent, Beaudoin also had to juggle her full-time position at the accounting firm. The flexibility of the GTP helped make her balancing act possible. As a part-time student, Beaudoin generally took two classes per semester, and was able to complete her degree in three years. The option to take evening classes was also beneficial, so that she could focus on her job during the day.<\/p>\n
“I was able to manage it by planning ahead and specifically blocking off time each week so that I could study and complete assignments,” she says. “But it also took a village of family members and sitters so that I could make it work.”<\/p>\n
Beaudoin found the GTP\u2019s courses to be richly diverse and challenging. She was particularly impressed by her professors\u2019 real-world experience in their respective fields. “The professors are all among the best in their practice areas,” she says.<\/p>\n
Today, Beaudoin manages the personal tax department for the upper Northeast division at US Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management, and her LLM has only been a benefit to her career. “The GTP helped me to get where I am today,” she says, “because it provided me with both the technical tax knowledge and the tools necessary to assist my clients.” In addition to working at US Trust, Beaudoin is also a teaching assistant for two GTP courses: Federal Income Tax II and Life Cycle of a Business Venture.<\/p>\n
Benjamin Whitehouse, <\/strong>Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance<\/strong><\/h3>\n![\"Ben](\"\/law\/files\/2016\/11\/whitehouse-ben.jpg\")
For the first ten years of his practice after law school, Benjamin Whitehouse worked primarily in civil and criminal litigation. In fact, while earning his JD at the University of Tennessee College of Law, he did not take a single tax law course. It was Whitehouse\u2019s career that steered him toward BU Law\u2019s GTP.<\/p>\n
After accepting a role in the field of captive insurance\u2014unique for its specific objective of letting businesses self-insure risks through a wholly owned insurance company\u2014for Tennessee\u2019s insurance regulator, Whitehouse realized that a greater knowledge of tax law would help his performance on the job. “There is significant interplay between captive insurance and the federal tax code, and I quickly noticed that nearly all of the captive insurance attorneys that I worked with had solid foundation in tax law and an LLM in tax,” he says. “I felt that if I wanted to be taken seriously in the industry, I needed to get a much better understanding of tax law and a respected credential in the field.”<\/p>\n
For the first ten years of his practice after law school, Benjamin Whitehouse worked primarily in civil and criminal litigation. In fact, while earning his JD at the University of Tennessee College of Law, he did not take a single tax law course. It was Whitehouse\u2019s career that steered him toward BU Law\u2019s GTP.<\/p>\n