Jim Luebchow is a partner and has been practicing law since he joined Chapman and Cutler LLP in 1973. Following his work in other areas of finance law, Jim began practicing in the field of private, tax-exempt health care and higher education financing in 1977. Since then, he has devoted substantially all of his time to that field, including the tax aspects of such transactions. He has acted as bond counsel, disclosure counsel, underwriter's counsel and special corporate counsel on a variety of public financings in many states. Mr. Luebchow's professional activities include speaking engagements on tax-exempt health care, higher educational and cultural facility financings, including serving as a panelist at National Association of Bond Lawyers Bond Attorneys Workshops, at a joint conference of the National Association of Higher Educational Facilities Authorities and the National Council of Health Facilities Finance Authorities, and at conferences of the American Health Lawyers Association and the Association for Governmental Leasing and Finance. |