Landye Bennett Blumstein Names New Partner
The law firm of Landye Bennett Blumstein made Karl Kaufman a Partner in the firm.
Kaufman focuses his practice on federal and state taxation, estate planning and administration, tax-exempt organizations, and Alaska Native law. Kaufman earned a Master of Laws degree in taxation from New York University school of law in 2010 after obtaining his JD from the University of Oregon School of Law (Order of the Coif) in 2007. At NYU, he was a Wilf Tax Scholar and a Graduate Editor on the Tax Law Review. Kaufman is a member of the Alaska Bar Association, the Oregon Bar Association, and a past president of the Anchorage Estate Planning Council.
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In mid-May it was 19°F and windy at the Aurora Hotel in Deadhorse. As I stood in the parking lot surveying the surroundings, I chatted with a gentleman from Texas who works for Nabors Alaska Drilling and was in town as part of a crew tasked with getting a previously inactive drill rig up and running. He said that, according to his supervisor, spring is the windy season on the North Slope. The gusts were bracing, numbing the fingers holding my camera, but most of my attention was focused on what I could capture through the lens: work trucks, shipping containers, buildings obscured by snow whipped up by the wind.