Joni D. LarsonProfessor Joni Larson earned a J.D. from the University of Montana and an LL.M. in Taxation from the University of Florida. She clerked for the Honorable Judge Irene Scott of the United States Tax Court, and then joined the Office of Chief Counsel asa tax litigator in the Austin, Texas, District Counsel Office. She left government service to enter private practice, but eventually returned to government work. She spent several years with the Passthroughs and Special Industries Branch of the Field Service Division of the National Office and, after the reorganization, worked in the Small Business/Self-Employed Division. Currently, she teaches individual taxation, business organizations, partnership taxation, and federal tax research at Thomas M. Cooley Law School and is the Assistant Director of the Graduate Tax Program. 2013 Read More Read Less