Sean Michael Stegmaier

• Business Tax
• Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits

California

Since 2007

California

O'Melveny & Myers LLP

Current

Georgetown University Law Center

LL.M. in Taxation: with distinction; Dean's List; Graduate Tax Scholar (full scholarship); Senior Executive Editor, The Tax Lawyer; CALI Award in Joint Ventures Between Nonprofit and Forprofit Entities

University of California at Santa Barbara

B.A

Business Economics; Philosophy: honors

Chapman University School of Law

2006

J.D.: summa cum laude; graduated 2nd in class; Emphasis in Taxation; Articles Editor, Chapman Law Review; President, Chapman Tax Law Society; Distinguished Graduate Award, 2006; Tax Law Honors Scholarship, 2005 and 2006; CALI Awards in Federal Income Tax, Advanced Federal Income Tax, Federal Tax Procedure and Administration, Taxation of Business Organizations, Business Planning, Corporations, Evidence, Sales, Torts I, Contracts I and II, and Legal Research & Writing I and II

Current

Activities: State Bar of California (Taxation Section); Orange County Bar Association; Chapman University School of Law Tax Law Advisory Board

Current

Activities: Author, "Tax Incentives for Higher Education in the Internal Revenue Code: Education Tax Expenditure Reform and the Inclusion of Refundable Tax Credits," 37 Southwestern University Law Review 135 (2008)

Current

Activities: Author, "What Does 'Assessment' Mean? The Supreme Court's Misinterpretation of the Tax Injunction Act and Its Disregard for Principles of Comity in Hibbs v. Winn Leads to the Adjudication of State Tax Credit Issues in Federal Court," 9 Chapman Law Review 157 (2005)

Current

Activities: Co-author, “Relief from the Rubble: Tax Assistance for Victims of the 2005 Hurricane Season,” 25 American Bar Association Section of Taxation News Quarterly 5, Winter 2005

Current

Activities: Academic Fellow, Contracts and Torts, Chapman University School of Law, 2003-2006