John Dorocak

Faculty Biography - John R. Dorocak
 

John R. Dorocak, LL.M. (Tax) (University of Florida), J.D. (Case Western Reserve University), C.P.A. (Ohio, California).

Dr. Dorocak has practiced as a tax accountant and tax attorney. He has taught in the area of taxation and personal financial planning most recently and has been a full-time academic for some time now.

He has published a number of articles, nearly all on taxation.

His work has appeared in Journals such as Akron Tax Journal, Animal and Natural Resource Law Review, Cardozo Journal of Law and Literature, Case Western Reserve Law Review, Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal, Cumberland Law Review, Dayton Law Review, George Mason Civil Rights Law Journal, Journal of Consumer and Commercial Law, The Journal of S Corporation Taxation, University of La Verne Law Review, Maine Law Review, Marquette Benefits and Social Welfare Law Review, Michigan State University Law Review, Michigan State University Animal and Natural Resource Law Review, Monthly Digest of Tax Articles, University of New Hampshire Law Review, North Carolina First Amendment Law Review, The Ohio CPA Journal, Ohio Northern Law Review, University of St. Thomas Journal of Law & Public Policy, Santa Clara Law Review, Seton Hall Journal of Sport Law, South Dakota Law Review, South Texas Law Review, Syracuse Law Review, Tax Notes, Taxation for Accountants, Taxation and Finance for Business, Taxes, Temple Political and Civil Rights Law Review, West Virginia Law Review, Willamette Law Review, and Virginia Tax Review.

Dr. Dorocak had served as an IRS trial attorney, a private practice attorney, and a CPA in management positions in national and local accounting firms, for a number of years, before entering academia full-time. He is a CPA in California and Ohio and a member of the Ohio Bar, and had been admitted to law practice in the Tax Court and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.

He has been a member of the AICPA, California Society of CPA's, Ohio Society of CPA's, Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, Academy of Legal Studies in Business, American Accounting Association, and American Taxation Association.

Dr. Dorocak and his two sons have lived with a cat and dog “somewhere south of Southern California” (per one description). All have appeared in the author’s footnote in his articles (cf. Charles A. Sullivan, The Under-Theorized Asterisk Footnote, 93 Geo. L.J. 1093, 1109 at n. 82).  (Sadly the cat passed away after a long life, as well as the dog.).

The two sons are exactly 3 weeks short of 10 years apart in age, prompting one former senior professor colleague to have speculated that Dr. Dorocak might never retire.