Alumnus/Alumna of the Month

Stanley S. Weithorn ('54, LL.M. '56)

Read an Interview with Stanley S. Weithorn.

Stanley S. Weithorn is currently Counsel to Roberts & Holland LLP. In addition to the time he spends practicing as a tax lawyer he also serves on a total of twelve charitable boards and operates his own foundation.

Mr. Weithorn has had a unique career during his 48 years as a practicing tax lawyer. He was the first lawyer in the United States to specialize in a then non-existent field of charitable tax law and created, in his firm, the first-ever charitable tax department. As a part-time academic he wrote the first work in the field, a seven-volume treatise; founded and chaired the first series of educational conferences on the subject of charity and taxes; taught the subject as an adjunct professor at two law schools; dedicated at least 20% of his practice time to small, financially starved charities; was responsible for planning clients' estates so that well over a billion dollars that would have gone to the IRS has been directed to charitable purposes; and wrote charitable legislation that became part of the Internal Revenue Code.

Mr. Weithorn received his B.A. in Business Administration from Hofstra University in 1947. He received his J.D. in 1954 and LL.M. in 1956 from NYU School of Law.