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Address
One Bunker Hill
601 West Fifth Street 8th Floor
Los Angeles, California 90071-2094 (Los Angeles Co.)
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 Free Initial Consultation (Main Office) For over 50 years, the firm has specialized in the law and taxation of international business, trade and investment, and in assisting private clients in the transfer of wealth from one generation to another across national boundaries and continents. It has assisted clients in resolving audits and controversies with fiscal authorities in the US and offshore, and in structuring and restructuring their global assets and business affairs. Statement of PracticeTaxation; IRS/FTB Audits; Controversies and Appeals; International and Offshore Tax Planning; Taxation of Foreign Nationals; International Trade and Business. Year Established: 1991
Firm Size: 2
Languages: French, German and Italian.
Representative Clients:Platinum Trading Management, Limited
Artimm S.r.l.
Playmates Toys, Inc.
ElectroRent Corporation
Accord Software, Limited
Arque Orion Partners and Arque Orion, K.K.
Rate InformationFixed Hourly Rates
Fixed Fees Available
Free Initial Consultation
AddressOne Bunker Hill
601 West Fifth Street 8th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90071-2094, (Los Angeles Co.)
PhonePhone: 213-891-9641
Telecopier: 213-623-6130
Website
http://www.agolbertlaw.com
Office HoursMonday: 09:00 AM - 06:00 PM
Tuesday: 09:00 AM - 06:00 PM
Wednesday: 09:00 AM - 06:00 PM
Thursday: 09:00 AM - 06:00 PM
Friday: 09:00 AM - 06:00 PM
Saturday: By Appointment Only: 01:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Albert S. Golbert, Esq. (Principal) born Colorado, November 26, 1932; admitted to bar, 1957, Colorado; 1958, California; 1964, U.S. Supreme Court; 1970, Michigan. Education: University of Southern California (B.S., 1954); University of Denver (LL.B., 1956); University of Michigan (LL.M., 1964); Graduate Institute of International Studies, University of Geneva (D.Sc., Jur. Cand., 1968). Recipient, Dana Latham Award, 2000, for lifetime achievement and commitment to the Los Angeles County Tax Bar. Listed: Best Lawyers in America, Taxation 2006-2008 and International Trade and Finance Law 2007-2009; Southern California Super Lawyers, Taxation, 2006-2008 and International Trade Law, 2007-2009. Co-Author: "Latin American Laws and Institutions," Praeger, N.Y., 1982; "Problems and Materials on International Trade and Investment," UCLA Press, 1973. Author: International Operations Handbook (Ed.), Fed. Publications, Inc., 1972. Professor of Law, 1970-1976 and Adjunct Professor of Law, 1976-1984, Southwestern University. Lecturer in law: University of Southern California, 1984-2002; Whittier Law School, 1991-1994; Loyola Law School, 1992-1996. Instructor in Multi-National Enterprises and Law in International Business, University of California at Los Angeles, 1972-1977. Founding Member and Vice President, 1986-1988 and Chairman of the Board, 1988, The Los Angeles Center for International Commercial Arbitration. Member: American Society of International Law (Co-Chairperson, Membership Committee, 1982-1984); American Bar Association (Member, Board of Editors, 1975-1976 and Assistant Editor-In-Chief, 1976-1983, "The International Lawyer;" Liaison, International Law and Taxation Sections, 2002-2006). He is: (i) a founding member of the Committee on International Practice of the Business Law Section (1986-87) and of the Section of International Law (Member of the Executive Committee, 1987-90, Treasurer, 1989-90, Advisor, 1990-93 and Advisor Emeritus, 1993-) of the State Bar of California; (ii) a member of the International Tax Committee (1991-), Member of the Executive Committee (1995-98), Vice Chair of the Executive Committee (1997-98), Chair, Standards of Tax Practice Committee (1998-00) and Chair, Tax Practice, Policy and Legislation Committee (2000-2002) of the Taxation Section of the State Bar of California; (iii) a past Chair (1984-85) and since member ex officio of the Executive Committee of the Section of International Law of the Los Angeles County Bar Association and past Chair of the Association's Pacific Rim Committee (1989-91); (iv) past Chair of the Foreign Tax Committee, member of the Executive Committee (1989-1995) and past Chair (1993-94) of the Section of Taxation of the Los Angeles County Bar Association; and (v) member of the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles County Bar Foundation (1999-2005). [Captain, USAF Res. JAGD, 1958-1961 Active Duty]. (Certified Specialist, Taxation Law, The State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization). Reported Cases: After practicing for ten years in Europe and the Middle East and two years in Africa and the Far East (where he was, inter alia, counsel to Chrysler in its acquisitions of control of or joint venture interests in, respectively, Rootes Motors, Ltd. in the United Kingdom, Simca Automobiles in France, Stanley Motors in Johannesburg, Rootes Ltd. in Melbourne and Mitsubishi Motor Industries in Japan), he returned to California in 1970. Languages: French, German and Italian. Practice Areas: International Business(15%); Taxation(50%); Trade(25%); General Business(10%).Email: Albert S. Golbert, Esq.
ASSOCIATE COUNSELDavis P. Goodman, Esq. (Associate Counsel) admitted to bar, 1985, California. Education: Harvard University (A.B., 1977); St. John's College, Cambridge University (LL.M., 1981); Stanford University Law School (J.D., 1985); Stanford University, Graduate School of Business (M.B.A., 1985). Formerly with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Former President and General Counsel, ATI Apparel Trade International; General Counsel, The GripBoard Company, LLC. Consultant, International Business and Trade, Published International Trade & Business Newsletter. Formerly Editor in Chief and Publisher of national business magazine: World Trade. Languages: German. Practice Areas: International Trade(25%); Antidumping(5%); Asia Trade(5%); China Trade(5%); Common Market Law(5%); International Transactions; Licensing; Distribution.
LEGAL SUPPORT PERSONNELRebecca L. Golbert, Ph.D. born Los Angeles, California, 1971; (Admission pending). Education: Harvard-Westlake School (Diploma, 1989); Princeton University (B.A., Anthropology, magna cum laude, 1993); University of Oxford, Refugee Studies Programme (Diploma) and Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (D.Phil., Social Anthropology, 2001); Pepperdine University School of Law, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution (Master of Dispute Resolution, 2007). Member, Cum Laude Society. Recipient: Policy Research Fellowship, National Council for Eurasian and East European Research; Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellowship for Archival Research; Kennan Institute Short-Term Grant; Overseas Research Scheme. Recipient, Certificate in Forced Migration, Refugee Studies Program, Queen Elizabeth House, 1995). Extern to: City of Los Angeles Human Relations Commission; Western Justice Center Foundation; UCLA Office of Ombuds. Doctoral Dissertation: "Constructing Self: Ukrainian Jewish Youth in the Making." Legal-Ease for Mediators, City of Los Angeles Human Relations Commission, 2008. 25 Hour Mediation Training, Emphasizing Cross-Criminal Competency, Asian Pacific American Dispute Resolution Center, 2006. Conflict Resolution Specialist, 2006. Adjunct Professor: "Contemporary Judaism," Department of Theology, Loyola Marymount University, 2005; "Cultural Theory and Practice," Mount St. Mary's College, Master of Humanities Program, Weekend College; "Dilemmas of Jewish Identity in Communist and Post-Communist Eastern Europe," University of Maryland at College Park, Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies, 2005. Intern: FHP Foundation, 1993; Jewish Foundation Council, Los Angeles, 1992; Le Prefecture de la Region d'lle de France, 1990. Author: chapter, "Judaism and Death: Finding Meaning in Ritual," "Death and Religion in a Changing World," edited by Kathleen Garces-Folcy, Armonk, MII, Sharpe, 2006; chapter, "Neighbors and the Ukrainian Jewish Experience of the Holocaust," "Lessons and Legacies VII: "The Holocaust in International Prospective," edited by Dagmar Herzong, Evanston, Northwestern University Press, 2006; chapter, "Language, Nation, and State-Building in Ukraine: the Jewish Response," "Language, Ethnicity and the State," edited by Camille C. O'reilly, Houndmills Palgrave Publishers Ltd., 2001: "Holocaust Commemoration Ceremonies in Contemporary Ukraine: Enacting Identity through Sites of Jewish Memory"; "Holocaust Memorialization in Ukrain," special edited by Gabriel Finder, Natalim Alcksrun and Jan Schwarz, Vol. 20, 2007; "Holocaust Sites in Ukraine: Pechora and the Politics of Memorialization," Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Vol. 18, No. 2, 2004: 205-233; "Transnational Orientation from Home: Constructions of Israel and Transnational Space among Ukrainian Jewish Youth," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, special edited by Steven Vertovec, Vol. 27, No. 4, 2001: 713-313; "In Search of a Meaningful Framework for the Study of Post-Soviet Jewish Identities, with Special Emphasis on the Case of Ukraine," Best European Jewish Affairs, Vol. 28, No. 1, 1998: 3-28. Articles Reviewed: "Documents on Ukrainian Jewish Identity and Emigration," 1944-1990, Vladmir Khanin, Frank Cass, 2003, Canadian Slavonic Papers, Vol. 47, No. 1-2, 2005: 158-9; "Diasporas and Ethnic Migrants Germany, Israel and Post-Soviet Successor States in Comparative Perspective," edited by Reiner Munz and Rainer Ohliger, Frank Cass, 2003, Journal of Refugee Studies, Vol. 18, No. 1, 2005: 117-9; "Still Moving: Recent Jewish Migration in Comparative Perspective," edited by Daniel J. Elazar and Morton Weinfeld, Transaction Publishers, 2000, Patterns of Prejudice, Vol. 37, No. 2, 2003: 221-4; "Jewries at the Frontier: Accommodation, Identity, Conflict," edited by Sander Gilman and Miltou Shain, University of Illinois Press, 1999, Patterns of Prejudice, Vol. 34, Issue 4, 2000: 84-7; "Strife in the Sanctuary: Religious Schism in a Jewish Community," Phil Zuckerman, Alta Mira Press, 1999, Reviews in Religion and Theology, Vol. 7, Issue 1, 2000: 29-32. Conference Papers: "What's at Stake: The Anthropologist's Role of Brokering Understanding Among Diverse Stakeholders in Applied/Practice Settings," organized by Christina vou Msyrhsuser, Society of Psychological Anthropology Biennial Meeting, March 8-11, 2007, Manhattan Beach, CA; "Performing Israel in Kiev: Constructions of a Transnational Jewish Culture in Ukraine," Panel on Choosing Jewish, Ethnicity, Performance and the Cultural Politics of Jewishness, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, November 19-23, 2003, Chicago, Illinois; "Society at the Window: The Boundaries of Judaism and Jewish Life, Secularism, and Christianity," Session on Perceptions of Christianity among Soviet and Post-Soviet Jews, 34th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, December 15-17, 2002, Los Angeles, CA; "The Impact of Western Assistance on Ukraine's Transition to Democracy," Association for the Study of Nationalities Seventh Annual World Convention, April 11-13, 2002, Columbia University, New York, New York; "Holocaust Sites in Ukraine: The Politics of Materialization," Session on Aspects of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe, 33rd Annual Conferences of the Association for Jewish Studies, December 16-18, 2001, Washington, DC; "Holocaust Sites in Ukraine: At the Intersection of History, Memory, and Contemporary Identity," Panel on Constructing European Difference: Gender, Race, Class and Culture Revisited, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, November 28 and December 2, 2001, Washington, DC; "Young Jewish Women in Post-Soviet Ukraine: Leaders or Observers in the Process of Cultural Renewal?" Panel on Gender and the New World Order, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, November 15-19, 2000, San Francisco, CA; "The Problem of Studying Post-Soviet Jewish Identity," Moscow Sofer Student Conference, July 4-5, 1996, Sefer Center, Moscow, Russia; "Post-Soviet Jewish Expressions of Identity," postgraduate research conference Expressions of Identity, May 24-26, 1996, Department of Social Anthropology, University of St. Andrews, Scotland. Training/Language Programs: "Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation," August 4-16, 2002; Sixth Annual Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization, Northwestern University, June 17-29, 2001; Intermediate Ukrainian Language, Modern Ukrainian History, Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute, 2000; Advanced Russian Language, Monterey Language Institute, 1991; Beginning Chinese Language, Berkeley Summer School, 1988. Part-Time Instructor, Professional Writing Program, English Department, University of Maryland at College Park. Instructor, English, English-Language Film, American History at Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China, 1994. Educational Therapy, Daily one-on-one monitoring of freshman student with severe learning disabilities, Occidental College, 2005. Ad Hoc Advisor, Middle East Inter-Group Task Force. Part-Time Consultant: NCSJ: Advocates on behalf of Jews in Russia, Ukraine, Baltic States & Eurasia, 2003. Short-term Consultant, NCSJ, 2002. Translate, Editor, Grant Writer, English Teacher, Institute of Judale Studies, 1998. Peer Reviewer, International Migration, 2005. Reader, Russian-Language, National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Humanities Research Fellowship, 2003. Freelance Researcher, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Los Angeles, 1995. NGO Delegate to the UN Subcommission on the Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, Palais des Nations, Geneva, CH, 1994. English Teacher, Refugee Resettlement Project, Russian Chabad House, Los Angeles, 1992. Extensive Background, Conflict Resolution and Alternative Dispute Resolution, Resolution of Cross Cultural Differences and Disputes. Member: Southern California Mediation Association; American Anthropological Association; Association for Jewish Studies. Languages: French, Russian, Ukrainian, Mandarin, German and Hebrew. Practice Areas: International Arbitration(10%); International Dispute Resolution(15%); International Mediation(25%); Mediation(50%).
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