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Gina Torielli
Director, Graduate Tax Program
and Professor
B.S., with high honors, Michigan State University
J.D., cum laude, Harvard Law School
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Professor Torielli is the director of the Graduate (LL.M.) Tax Program. She joined the Cooley faculty in the fall of 2003. While at law school, Professor Torielli worked with the Harvard negotiation Project, and as a research assistant to Professor Bernard Wolfman.
She began practice in the largest Michigan law firm, moving after six years to Howard & Howard, a firm of more than 90 attorneys. In 1998, Professor Torielli was elected as President and CEO of that firm, and served a five year term as the first woman managing partner of a major Michigan law firm. In that capacity Professor Torielli led a large legal team in the development of a distinguished practice. She and her firm members have counseled businesses, banks and public sector clients, including several Fortune 500 firms. Her experience as managing partner gave her real world experience with ethical and practice management issues in a law firm setting. She uses this experience in her teaching and writing about the ethical standards of tax practice. She is a popular speaker on topics relating to law firm management, and conducts workshops on negotiation skills development.
Torielli’s own practice centered in taxation and public finance, and in that capacity she advised many nonprofit organizations and governmental entities on issues relating to tax exemption, tax-exempt financing and state and federal tax issues. Professor Torielli’s scholarship is an effort to provide guidance to practitioners on the intricacies of federal tax exemption for municipal bonds.
The Detroit chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners named Professor Torielli one of the “top 10 business women of the year” in the spring of 2003. Corp! magazine named her one ofthe”95 most powerful women in Michigan” in March 2002, and Michigan Lawyers Weekly called her one of ten Michigan “Lawyers of the Year” in 1998. The Governor appointed Professor Torielli to the board of Michigan Higher Education Assistance Authority in 2004. Professor Torielli also serves on the boards of several charitable organizations. She is an officer of the State Bar of Michigan’s Taxation Section.
Professor Torielli teaches the Tax Practice and Procedure, Standards and Ethics of Tax Practice, and Tax Exempt Organizations courses in the Graduate Tax Program. She teaches the Taxation and Wills Estates and Trusts courses in the J.D. program. She was the initial supervising professor for Cooley’s Estate Planning Clinic at the Auburn Hills campus.
EDUCATION
B.S. with high honors, Michigan State University
J.D., cum laude, Harvard Law School
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