Washington and Lee School of Law

Robert Danforth

Email: danforthr@wlu.edu
Office: 442 Sydney Lewis Hall
Phone: 540-458-8524
Fax: 540-458-8488

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Robert T. Danforth

Professor of Law

B.A. 1980, Washington University; J.D., with high honors, 1986, Duke; Order of the Coif; Article Editor, Duke Law Journal.

Biography

Admitted to practice in District of Columbia, North Carolina, and Virginia; summer associate, Arnold & Porter, Washington, D.C., Summer 1985; summer associate, Hunton & Williams, Raleigh, N.C., and King & Spalding, Atlanta, Summer 1986; law clerk to Judge Stephanie K. Seymour, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, 1986-87; Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Tulsa College of Law, Fall 1986; associate, Arnold & Porter, Washington, D.C., 1987-91; associate, 1992-97, Of Counsel, 1997, McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe, L.L.P., Charlottesville and Tysons Corner, Va.; Lecturer, University of Virginia School of Law, 1995-97; Assistant Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University, 1997-2002; Associate Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University, 2002-2006; Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University, 2006 - ; Visiting Professor of Law, College of William & Mary, 2004; Law Alumni Association Fellow in Teaching Excellence, Washington & Lee University, 2004-2005; Alumni Faculty Fellow, 2005-2006.


For the Media

Professor Danforth is available to be interviewed on the following subjects:

• Asset Protection Planning 
• Decedents' Estates 
• Estate and Gift Taxation 
• Estate Planning 
• Fiduciary Duties and Misconduct 
• Income Taxation of Trusts and Estates 
• Individual Income Tax 
• Trusts and Estates 

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