Dr. Barbara Landau

landau@nova.edu

Barbara Landau, Esq., Assistant Professor, Master of Taxation and Master of Accounting programs at the H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship at Nova Southeastern University, received her Master of Laws in Taxation from New York University and her Juris Doctor degree, magna cum laude, from New York Law School where she was an Editor of the Law Review. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from New York University. She has been an Adjunct Professor at the Nova Southeastern University Law Center since 1999 teaching a course on probate and estate and trust administration (Probate Law Workshop).

Among the tax courses Professor Landau teaches in the Master of Taxation and Master of Accounting programs are corporate and partnership taxation, estate and gift tax, fiduciary income taxation, taxation of LLCs and S corporations, real estate taxation, taxation of pension and profit-sharing plans, tax-exempt organizations,and international tax. She also teaches business law and the CPA regulation review course.

Professor Landau is a member of the Florida (admitted 1980), New York (admitted 1979), and New Jersey (admitted 1978) Bars and is admitted to practice before the United States Tax Court. During her many years in private practice, she has represented clients in the areas of (1) federal and state individual, fiduciary, partnership, corporate, and estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer taxation and planning, including charitable planning, and probate and trust administration, (2) business entity formation, sales, liquidations, and reorganizations, (3) real estate transactions, and (4) in the early years, labor and employment law. She also spent five years as staff attorney to several probate judges. In addition, she has professional experience in the not-for-profit sector, including having served as Director of Planned Giving for Florida for the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science for the four years immediately prior to joining the full-time faculty at the H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship. Professor Landau is certified by the Supreme Court of Florida as a Circuit Court mediator and as a County Court mediator. Her focus areas in the alternative dispute resolution arena are mediation of probate, trust, and business disputes.

Professor Landau is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, past Co-Chair of the Charitable Planning Committee of the Real Property, Probate and Trust Law (RPPT) Section of the American Bar Association (ABA), and a member of the Tax-Exempt Organizations Committee and the State and Local Concerns of Exempt Organizations Committee of the RPPT Section. She is a member of the Tax Section of the ABA and the Exempt Organizations, Fiduciary Income Tax, and Estate and Gift Tax Committees of the ABA Tax Section. She is also a member of the Business Law and the Dispute Resolution Sections of the ABA and several committees of those sections.

Professor Landau is a past member of the Executive Council of the Real Property, Probate and Trust Law (RPPTL) Section of the Florida Bar and is past Chair (founding Chair) of the Section’s Charitable Organizations and Planning Committee. She has served on several other RPPTL Section committees, including the Probate Law, Estate and Trust Tax, Probate and Trust Litigation, Probate Forms, and Attorney/Trust Officer Liaison Committees. She is also a member of the Tax Law Section of the Florida Bar.