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Education: Dartmouth College, A.B., summa cum laude, 1961 University of Michigan, J.D., 1964 New York University, LL.M., 1965

Practice Areas Estate Planning & Tax Conservation Transactions Exempt Organizations & Charitable Planning

Awards/Honors News Three Coblentz Lawyers Named as 2010 Best Lawyers' Lawyer of the Year for Real Estate, Land Use & Tax Tax Notes Magazine Interviews Partner William Hutton on Conservation Easement Trends and Future Issues with Transactions CPDB Conservation Easement Specialist William T. Hutton Completes Largest Private Land Conservation Transaction in Hawaii

William T. Hutton

Partner

One of the nation's leading authorities on the tax and financial aspects of land conservation transactions, Bill Hutton provides tax advice to nonprofit organizations, businesses, and individuals.

Bill Hutton is a recognized expert in nonprofit and tax law, with an emphasis on the tax aspects of land preservation, including conservation easement planning. He acts as counsel to both national conservation organizations and local and regional land trusts, and advises individuals and corporations on the income and estate tax consequences of conservation transactions. In addition, he advises the firm's clients on the full range of tax and corporate legal issues that confront nonprofit charitable organizations and their directors.

In addition to his work for the firm's clients, Bill Hutton is a professor of law emeritus at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, where he continues to teach on a part-time basis. He has previously served as a member of the tax faculty at New York University School of Law, and as a visiting professor at the University of Virginia and Stanford University law schools.

Education

Bill Hutton graduated, summa cum laude, from Dartmouth College in 1961. He earned his law degree from the University of Michigan School of Law in 1964 and a LLM in taxation from New York University in 1965.

Professional Activities

Bill Hutton has lectured at virtually every major national tax conference, and has taught summer courses to Internal Revenue Service, Justice Department and Treasury attorneys at the national office of the IRS. He was a founding board member of Conservation International and presently serves on the board of Ecotrust. Bill Hutton is a past chair of the California State Bar Taxation Section, and in 1991 he received the Bar's Judson Klein Award for outstanding service to the tax profession and the public.  Mr. Hutton was awarded the 2010 San Francisco Lawyer of the Year for Tax by Best Lawyers.