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Douglas A. Taggart
Mr. Taggart is the Managing Attorney of the firm’s Ogden, Utah, office. Mr. Taggart has broad experience in sophisticated tax and estate planning and in business and real estate transactions. He was recently named the “favorite attorney in Northern Utah” in the Ogden Standard Examiner.
PRACTICE AREAS
- Corporate & Partnership Taxation
- Estate Planning & Probate
- Federal & State Tax Litigation
- Individual Tax Matters
EDUCATION
Brigham Young University, J. Reuben Clark Law School - J.D., cum laude (1978)
- Managing Student Editor, Utah Bar Journal
Brigham Young University - B.S., Accounting, summa cum laude (1975)
FIRM MANAGEMENT
- Chair, Tax & Estate Planning Section
- Managing Attorney, Ogden Office
ADMITTED TO PRACTICE
- Utah
- All State and Federal Courts in Utah
- California
- United States Tax Court
INDUSTRIES
- Financial
ADDITIONAL LANGUAGES
- Japanese
PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC ACTIVITIES
- Member, Weber County Bar Association
- Named in Utah Business magazine’s “Legal Elite”
- Estate Planning Council of Weber/Davis (Founding Director, 2002-2007; Chair, 2002–2003)
- Red Cross of Utah, Ogden Chapter Development Committee (1999-2000)
- Utah Boys State (pro bono legal counsel 1997-present)
- Rex E. Lee American Inn of Court (Master of the Bench; Secretary-Treasurer, 1997–1998)
- Ogden School Foundation (pro bono legal counsel, 1992-present; Director, 1992-1998; President, 1996-1997)
- Primary Childrens Medical Center Planned Gifts Committee (1990-1992)
- Member, Editorial Board, Utah Bar Journal (1988–1990)
- Utah State Bar Legislative Affairs Committee (1988–1990)
- Utah Life Convention (1988-1989; President, 1989)
- Boy Scouts of America (Director, Lake Bonneville Council 1986-1988)
- Utah State Bar Probate and Estate Planning Section Executive Committee (1983–1987)
- Utah Traits Council (Officer and Director 1983-1986)
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