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Dan Eller

Overview

Dan Eller assists clients with tax and business law issues in both transactions and controversies. His transactional practice emphasizes choice of entity and formation, mergers and acquisitions, real property development, foreign bank account and asset reporting, and tax-exempt entity formation, qualification and operation. On the controversy side, Dan has handled a wide variety of tax collection and controversy matters, both federally and at the state level in Oregon and Washington. He has litigated cases before both the United States Tax Court and the Oregon Tax Court, where he formerly clerked for the Hon. Henry C. Breithaupt.

Dan is an adjunct professor at Lewis and Clark Law School and an adjunct instructor in the School of Business Administration at Portland State University. 

Memberships & Awards

Memberships

  • Oregon State Bar Taxation Section, Past Chair
  • American Bar Association, Taxation Section, Member
  • Cycle Oregon, Board Member

Awards

  • Thomson Reuters, Oregon Rising Stars
  • Lewis & Clark Law School, Andrea Swanner Redding Outstanding Mentor Award
  • Taxation Section, New Tax Lawyer Committee, Mentor of the Year
  • Lewis & Clark Law School, Cornelius Honor Society
  • Lewis & Clark Law School, Joyce Ann Harpole Scholarship

  • Oregon Super Lawyers, Tax (2016)

Resources & Ideas

Oregon State Bar Taxation Section CLE Luncheon Series
TEFRA Repeal
May 25, 2017

Mid-Valley Tax Forum
TEFRA Repeal Presentation
January 17, 2017 (Salem, Oregon)

Oregon State Bar Real Estate & Land Use Section
Real Estate Choices-of-Entity and Hot Tax Topics for the RELU Professional
November 15, 2016

The Life Cycle of an Oregon Department of Revenue Case
Presented to Legal Aid Services of Oregon 
September 23, 2016

Pub Talk: The Many Specialties in Tax and Whether to Specialize 
Oregon State Bar Taxation Section
September 22, 2016

Publications

Community Activities

Community Activities

  • Lewis & Clark Law School Alumni Board, President
  • Portland Tax Forum, Secretary
  • Oregon, Southwest Washington, Idaho, and Montana Chapter of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Former Board Member and Past Chair
  • Portland State University Graduate Alumni Ambassador Council, Council Member
  • Oregon State Bar, Taxation Section, Portland Luncheon CLE Series, Former Host
  • Lake Oswego School District Foundation, Former Board Member
  • Lewis & Clark Law School, PILP Stipend Committee, Former Member 
  • Cycle Oregon, Board Member

Services

Education

  • University of Washington School of Law
    LL.M., Taxation (2008)
  • Lewis & Clark Law School
    Juris Doctor degree, cum laude (2004)
  • Portland State University
    Master of Science degree in Financial Analysis (2001)
  • University of California at Los Angeles
    Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Economics (1992)

Admissions

Oregon State Courts

Washington State Courts

United States Tax Court

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit

United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit

United States Court of Federal Claims

United States District Court, District of Oregon

United States District Court, Eastern District of Washington

United States District Court, Western District of Washington

United States Supreme Court

Outside The Office
  • Cycling, photography and spending time outdoors with friends and family.‎

Ideas Fuel Industries