Faculty

Charles R. Levun
crlevun@lgclaw.com   

Charles R. Levun, JD, CPA, is a partner in the Chicago-area law firm of Levun, Goodman & Cohen, LLP. He is also the consultant to the Wolters Kluwer, CCH, Partnership Tax Planning and Practice Guide, for which he was the co-author of the monthly “Partner’s Perspective” column for its entire term of publication (1987-2020), and was an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent Graduate Tax Program (1985-2019 program termination) and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Passthrough Entities for its entire term of publication (1998-2019).

Mr. Levun received a JD from the University of Chicago Law School and a BS in Accounting from the University of Illinois. He is a past chair of the Partnerships and LLCs Committee of the American Bar Association’s Section of Taxation, the Chicago Bar Association’s Federal Taxation Committee and the Federal Taxation Section Council of the Illinois State Bar Association, and is a Fellow and past Regent in the American College of Tax Counsel. Mr. Levun has been chair of the faculty and co-sponsor of the Tax Planning Forum and the Fundamentals of Flow-Through Tax Seminar since their inception.

Michael J. Cohen
mjcohen@lgclaw.com   

Michael J. Cohen, JD, LLM, MBA, CPA, is a partner in the Chicago-area law firm of Levun, Goodman & Cohen, LLP. Mr. Cohen received a JD and an LLM in Taxation from the Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent College of Law. He holds an MBA in Finance from DePaul University and a BS in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Finance and Commerce.

Mr. Cohen was the Associate Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Passthrough Entities for its entire term of publication (1998-2019) and was the co-author of the monthly "Partner's Perspective" column for its entire term of publication (1987-2020) that accompanied the Wolters Kluwer, CCH, Partnership Tax Planning and Practice Guide. He has been co-chair of the faculty and co-sponsor of the Tax Planning Forum and the Fundamentals of Flow-Through Tax Seminar since their inception.

Daniel P. Rowe
dprowe@lgclaw.com   

Daniel P. Rowe, JD, CPA, is of counsel in the Chicago-area law firm of Levun, Goodman & Cohen, LLP. Mr. Rowe graduated with honors from Towson University with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and received his JD with honors from Loyola Law School at Loyola Marymount University (Order of the Coif).

Mr. Rowe joins us full-time from the accounting firm of Green Hasson Janks, where he was a practicing tax partner focused on flow-through entities.

Mr. Rowe currently serves as an editorial adviser to The Tax Adviser and has been published in various tax and real estate journals such as Tax Notes, The Tax Adviser, The Journal of Property Management, and Commercial Investment Real Estate. He taught a course on Passthrough Taxation at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, has written and presented continuing education sessions for attorneys and CPAs, served as Developments Editor for Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, and is a former member of the AICPA’s Technical Resource Panel for S corporations.