{"id":41891,"date":"2017-07-05T10:07:49","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T14:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=41891"},"modified":"2023-12-07T09:41:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T14:41:30","slug":"norman-richter","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/profile\/norman-richter\/","title":{"rendered":"Norman Richter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"s4\"><strong>Norm Richter<\/strong> teaches undergraduate and graduate level tax courses in the Graduate Tax Program<\/span><span class=\"s4\"> <\/span><span class=\"s4\">at the Boston University Law School<\/span><span class=\"s4\"> <\/span><span class=\"s4\">and at Babson College<\/span><span class=\"s4\">. <\/span><span class=\"s4\">He <\/span><span class=\"s4\">has appeared on local news and NPR <\/span><span class=\"s4\">programs as a<\/span><span class=\"s4\"> tax<\/span><span class=\"s4\"> expert<\/span><span class=\"s4\">,<\/span><span class=\"s4\"> and <\/span><span class=\"s4\">on tax panels at <\/span><span class=\"s4\">tax conferences, as well as served on <\/span><span class=\"s4\">boards and <\/span><span class=\"s4\">planning<\/span><span class=\"s4\"> <\/span><span class=\"s4\">committees for <\/span><span class=\"s4\">numerous<\/span><span class=\"s4\"><\/span><span class=\"s4\">academic and professional<\/span><span class=\"s4\"> tax <\/span><span class=\"s4\">organ<\/span><span class=\"s4\">iza<\/span><span class=\"s4\">tion<\/span><span class=\"s4\">s.<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s4\">Before teaching<\/span><span class=\"s4\">, <\/span><span class=\"s4\">Norm <\/span><span class=\"s4\">served as<\/span><span class=\"s4\"> <\/span><span class=\"s4\">the chief tax executive<\/span><span class=\"s4\"> <\/span><span class=\"s4\">for <\/span><span class=\"s4\">three large US multinational corporations i<\/span><span class=\"s4\">n<\/span><span class=\"s4\"> <\/span><span class=\"s4\">different industries: <\/span><span class=\"s4\">biopharmaceutical<\/span><span class=\"s4\"> (Baxalta),<\/span><span class=\"s4\"><\/span><span class=\"s4\">medical devices<\/span><span class=\"s4\"> and pharmaceuticals<\/span><span class=\"s4\"> (Baxter), and diversified industrial businesses (Textron).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s4\">Prior to <\/span><span class=\"s4\">industry<\/span><span class=\"s4\">, Norm worked in <\/span><span class=\"s4\">the <\/span><span class=\"s4\">three branches of the <\/span><span class=\"s4\">US<\/span><span class=\"s4\">\u00a0g<\/span><span class=\"s4\">overnment in various tax <\/span><span class=\"s4\">roles<\/span><span class=\"s4\">:<\/span><span class=\"s4\"> <\/span><span class=\"s4\">In Washington, DC, he l<\/span><span class=\"s4\">ed <\/span><span class=\"s4\">the <\/span><span class=\"s4\">international tax counsel <\/span><span class=\"s4\">group in the Office of Tax Policy <\/span><span class=\"s4\">at<\/span><span class=\"s4\"> the US Treasury Department, served as<\/span><span class=\"s4\"> majority tax counsel for the US Senate Committee on Finan<\/span><span class=\"s4\">ce<\/span><span class=\"s4\">, <\/span><span class=\"s4\">and <\/span><span class=\"s4\">clerked for<\/span><span class=\"s4\"> <\/span><span class=\"s4\">a j<\/span><span class=\"s4\">udge <\/span><span class=\"s4\">on <\/span><span class=\"s4\">the US Tax Court. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s4\">Before joining the staff of the Senate Finance Committee, <\/span><span class=\"s4\">Norm was a tax attorney with the Steptoe &amp; Johnson law firm in Washington, DC. <\/span><span class=\"s4\">He<\/span><span class=\"s4\"> is a<\/span><span class=\"s4\"> <\/span><span class=\"s4\">cum laude <\/span><span class=\"s4\">graduate<\/span><span class=\"s4\"> of<\/span><span class=\"s4\"> Dartmouth College and <\/span><span class=\"s4\">of <\/span><span class=\"s4\">the University of <\/span><span class=\"s4\">Pennsylvania Law School.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11395,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/41891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11395"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/41891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105854,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/41891\/revisions\/105854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}