University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law

The urban public law school with a small liberal arts feel

Anthony J. Luppino Associate Professor of Law; A.B. (Dartmouth College); J.D. (Stanford Law School); LL.M. in Taxation (Boston University) email 816-235-6165 Vita Professor Luppino received his bachelor of arts degree from Dartmouth College in 1979. In 1982 he received his J.D. from Stanford Law School, where he served as an associate editor of the Stanford Law Review. While in private practice with the Boston law firm of Herrick & Smith, Professor Luppino earned his LL.M. degree in taxation from Boston University, and in 1986 was the lead articles editor of the Boston University Journal of Tax Law. After several years of practice in Boston, Professor Luppino moved to Kansas City in 1986.Before joining the faculty on a full-time basis in 2001, he practiced law in the Johnson County, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri offices of Lewis, Rice & Fingersh (formerly Brown, Korachik & Fingersh), and for several years served as the head of the Kansas City office’s Business, Tax & Estate Planning Department. His practice included a wide variety of planning and transactional work, involving multiple disciplines, such as business organizations, securities, taxation, trusts and estates, real estate and intellectual property law. He also taught Partnership Taxation as an Adjunct Professor at the UMKC Law School from 1994 through 2000 and has been a frequent speaker and draftsman of written materials on business law and taxation matters for continuing legal education and other professional seminars. Professor Luppino teaches business and tax subjects, including Business Organizations, Business Planning, Partnership Taxation and Securities Regulation, and serves as Faculty Co-Director of the UMKC Entrepreneurial Legal Services Clinic. He is married, with two children.His family is patient with his principal vice/curse—being an avid, life-long fan of the Boston Red Sox. You can access my papers on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=624500