Phone: (405) 235.7000
Fax: (405) 996.3403
E-Mail: lcason@hartzoglaw.com
Practice Areas
- Business transactions and ongoing representation of business clientele
- Tax and estate planning for affluent individuals and families
- Tax controversies
Professional Biography
- Fellow in American College of Tax Counsel since 1989
- Fellow in American College of Trust and Estate Counsel since 1997
- Listed one of Oklahoma Super Lawyers (Business/Corporate)
- Listed in The Best Lawyers in America in the following practice areas:
Corporate Law
Tax Law
Trust and Estates
- Listed in Chambers USA Guide to America’s Leading Lawyers
- Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Oklahoma College of Law since 1981. Courses taught include Partnership Tax and Corporate Tax
- Associate attorney with Rain Harrell Emory Young & Doke of Dallas, Texas from 1976 to 1979
- Captain, United States Air Force, JAGC, 1972 to 1976
- Member Advisory Task Force on Oklahoma Corporate Income Tax Reform
- Commentator for Leimberg Financial Services, 2008.
Bar Memberships
- State Bars of Oklahoma, Texas and California
- Past Chairman of the Section of Taxation of the Oklahoma Bar Association
Education
- University of Oklahoma (B.A.,1969)
- University of Oklahoma, College of Law (J.D., 1972) (Oklahoma Law Review and Order of the Coif)
- Southern Methodist University School of Law (Masters of Law in Taxation, 1979)
Professional Publications
- Len has authored tax articles for:
Leimberg Financial Services
The Oklahoma Bar Journal
The Texas Bar Journal
Prentice Hall – Oil & Gas Taxes
- He has also published the following articles in Estate Planning Magazine:
Maximizing Funding of Credit Shelter Trust With Non-IRA Assets, June 2002, Vol. 29, No. 6
IRS Approves Poorer Spouse Funding Technique, May 2004, Vol. 31, No. 5
- The "Just Enough" Funding Technique: An Innovative New Strategy, June 2008, Vol. 35, No. 6
Civic
- Chairman of the Board of Directors, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
- Director, Oklahoma City Public Schools Foundation
- Former Member, Camp Classen Board of Directors
- Former Member, Oklahoma City YMCA Board of Directors
- Board of Directors, Investrust
Personal
- Wife Donna and sons Trent, Paul and Roger
- Britton Christian Church, Elder
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