Sander (Sandy) Shapiro’s obituary is here. The obituary
does not state a date of death, but the obituary is dated February 12,
2024. I will post the date of death when I get it.
It is a longer obituary, a good read about Sandy. Some excerpts
related to the Tax Division.
When Sandy was in law school, he had a tax professor who
inspired him, so when he got home he wrote to the Internal Revenue Service to
apply for a job. He flew to Washington, D.C. for an interview, and while there,
met a man (who later became a treasured friend) who discouraged him from going
to the IRS and instead encouraged him to apply to the Tax Division of the
Department of Justice. Sandy credited this suggestion as the best advice he
ever received.
* * * He worked with very fine, experienced tax lawyers and
a bunch of young, enthusiastic newly minted lawyers eager to learn. Sandy then
moved to a job on the Tax Court. When they were ready to start a family, Sandy
and Lottie moved to Austin, a town Sandy had loved when in law school there, to
be closer to their families. Sandy got a job with Clark, Thomas, Harris, Denius
and Winters (later Clark, Thomas, Winters and Shapiro), and was the first tax
lawyer in Austin. Decades later, he and his closest colleagues left Clark
Thomas to form a new firm, Shapiro, Edens and Cook.
A Texas State Bar interview with Sandy is here.