On May 17, tax partner Bill Backstrom will teach at the annual Advanced State Income Tax School presented by the Council on State Taxation (COST). Bill will team with Art Rosen, another nationally-recognized state and local tax attorney, to teach a class on "Allocation and Apportionment of Income." The 2005 COST Advanced State Income Tax School will be held May 16-19 at the Doral Eaglewood Conference Resort in Itasca, Illinois. The COST Advanced State Income Tax School is an intense, four-day program designed for tax attorneys and accountants with more than five years of multi-state corporate tax experience, involved in either compliance or planning functions. The emphasis of the school is on practical applications of state tax issues in a corporate environment. This will be Mr. Backstrom's fourth year to teach at the School.