Andrew Harker, ’25, and Nolan Schafer, ’25, finished in second place in the American Bar Association’s Law Student Tax Challenge, (LSTC) an inter-law school transactional planning and client counseling competition.
An alternative to traditional moot court competitions, the LSTC is organized by the ABA Section of Taxation’s Young Lawyers Forum. The LSTC asks two-person teams of students to solve a complex business problem that might arise in everyday tax practice. Teams are initially evaluated on two criteria: a memorandum to a senior partner and a letter to a client explaining the result. Based on the written work product, six teams from the J.D. Division receive a trip to the semifinal round held during the Tax Section’s Midyear Meeting, where each team presents its submission before a panel of judges consisting of the country’s top tax practitioners and government officials, including tax court judges. Harker and Schafer advanced to the final round where they competed against the team from Western New England School of Law.
Nebraska Law’s team was coached by Professor Adam Thimmesch and Professor Don Jannsen.
