Phil Hodgen has been a friend of BloodhoundBlog for a long time. He’s an international tax attorney working out of Pasadena, so why would he be reading the dawgs? Marketing and iconoclasm, the only two things we actually understand.
At Chris Johnson’s suggestion, he joins us today. Here’s his bio:
Phil is an international tax lawyer. Home is in Pasadena, CA. Clients are all over the world. Yes, he’s of those people you read about, setting up foreign trusts and other weird stuff in small palm-fronded countries. His clients like U.S. real estate, although at the moment they are just kicking tires. Phil makes complex tax stuff easy to understand.
Sounds like a giant killer to me. Let’s give him a big axe and see what he can do with it.
Phil Hodgen says:
First post! /jk
Greg, thanks for having me on BHB. I watch the real estate world — and BHB in particular — with interest, because almost everything talked about here can be applied in the business of supplying law services.
Lawyers are just consultants, after all. Highly specialized. With a REALLY strong union. (AKA the State Bar, which makes the Teamsters look like pikers.)
Glad to be on board.
@philiphodgen
April 17, 2009 — 9:16 am
Jeff Brown says:
Welcome Phil — and thanks to Chris for the recommendation and to Greg for his usual solid judgment picking contributors.
April 17, 2009 — 11:29 am
Mark Green says:
Hi Phil, welcome aboard – I’m really looking forward to learning from you.
Greg, did you say tax attorney or taxidermy? With all this talk of skinning cats around here, I figured we could use one of those too 🙂
April 17, 2009 — 11:35 am
Sean Purcell says:
Welcome aboard Phil.
Say, what do you call a thousand lawyers at the bottom of a… Hmmm, maybe too soon for that.
In all seriousness, I have this tax issue and I’m looking for some personal, free advice. You see last year I…
I just wanted to make you feel at home. Glad you’re here! 🙂
April 17, 2009 — 2:25 pm