Dan Kurtz, '68, Joins Davis Wright Tremaine as Partner, Leader of NY TEO Team

The national law firm of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP (DWT) announced today that it has expanded its tax-exempt organizations practice with a New York-based team of five attorneys including Dan Kurtz. Kurtz, former New York State Assistant Attorney General-in-Charge of the New York Charities Bureau, joins DWT as a partner. He will co-chair DWT’s national TEO practice with LaVerne Woods, a prominent tax-exempt organizations lawyer and past chair of the ABA Section of Taxation Exempt Organizations Committee, based in Seattle. Jean L. Tom, from the New York firm of Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, will also join DWT as a partner (effective Feb.18, 2015). Joining Kurtz and Tom in DWT’s New York office will be former Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP attorneys J.J. Harwayne Leitner, Coleen McGrath and Shveta Kakar, all joining as counsel.

“With Dan, Jean, J.J., Coleen and Shveta joining us, we are creating one of the most substantial practices in the country focused on the needs of tax-exempt organizations,” said Woods. “Dan brings to DWT a wealth of experience with some of New York’s largest charitable organizations, including The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Hadassah, Lincoln Center, the New York Historical Society, The Jerome L. Greene Foundation, and the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, complementing our West Coast team’s work with foundations, charities and corporate philanthropy clients such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Starbucks. I’m thrilled that we are able to bring together such depth and breadth to create a truly national team.”