Len Cason, Partner

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