Meet your officer: David S. De Jong, secretary

David S. De Jong, elected as Secretary at the November 1998 Annual Meeting in Atlanta, is the Association's newest officer. Since 1981 David has been a principal in the Rockville, Maryland, law firm of Stein, Sperling, Bennett, De Jong, Driscoll, Greenfeig & Metro, P.C., a 22-attorney general practice firm located between Washington and Baltimore. He has 20 years of service on adjunct faculties of four universities, teaching virtually every undergraduate and graduate level tax course. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at American University in Washington, D.C., most frequently alternating between teaching State and Local Taxation and Employee Benefits.

Born in Washington, D.C., David received his B.A. from the University of Maryland in 1972, his J.D. from Washington and Lee University in 1975, where he was an editor of its Law Review, and his LL.M. in Taxation from Georgetown University Law Center in 1979. He is a member of the Maryland and District of Columbia bars. Originally a Government major, David returned to school to take a half dozen accounting courses and passed the Certified Public Accounting examination in 1981. Most recently, in 1998, he was awarded the designation of Certified Valuation Analyst by the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts.

David's law practice focuses in areas of taxation, estate planning, business transactions and valuation. He handles civil and criminal tax litigation, but most of his courtroom time is as an expert witness in tax and valuation matters.

For 11 years, with his tax partner, David has coauthored the J.K. Lasser annual tax planning book. It has been found occasionally on best seller lists, rising in January 1993 to as high as number two on the Washington Post paperback list.

A tax generalist, David delivers in excess of 20 speeches a year to bar, accounting, financial and lay groups. He has been listed in Washingtonian magazine as one of the top financial professionals in the District of Columbia area.

David is a member of numerous professional organizations and has served as Treasurer of his county Bar Association and Foundation. Of all of the professional organizations, he enjoys our Association the best. Active in the Potomac Chapter since 1981, he started attending the national and regional meetings regularly four years ago.

David and his wife Tracy, a transactional and family law attorney, will be hosting the Association's Annual Meeting in 2000 at the Boar's Head Inn in Charlottesville, Virginia, the same hotel at which they had their wedding reception in 1995. Tracy is a graduate of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville; she received her law degree from Vanderbilt University. The couple has a one-year-old son, Sam, who comes to the national meetings.

When not at the office, David enjoys travel, theatre, art, dining and (most significantly) sports. He has season tickets to the Baltimore Orioles, Baltimore Ravens, Washington Redskins and the University of Maryland Terrapins. Away from town, David is partial to travelling off the beaten paths where his cellular phone won't work. He has been through Russia and China, East Africa and the Australian outback. Immediately prior to the Association's Calgary-Banff meeting in 1995, David fished the Canadian Northwest Territories up to the Arctic Ocean.

David strongly encourages members who have not attended a national meeting to join in the collegiality and fun, beginning with Vancouver in July. "In no organization or setting have I met so many nice people with whom I have so much in common."

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