Adolph Koeppel

Background

Koeppel, Adolph was born on April 11, 1923 in Brooklyn, New York, United States.

Education

Brooklyn College; Long Island University. New York University (Bachelor of Laws, 1948. Master of Laws, 1953).

Career

Worked at Koeppel Martone Leistman & Herman, L.L.P. Admitted to the bar, 1948, New York. 1950, United States. District Court, Eastern and Southern Districts of New York.

1951, United States. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. 1954, United States. Tax Court. 1983, Florida; 1984, District of Columbia.

Author: "The Seagram Case," May, 1964 and "Real Estate Tax Review in Nassau County," November, 1964, Nassau County Bar Journal. "Sample Condemnation Clauses," New York State Bar Journal, August, 1969. "Inequality in Real Property Tax Review," 19 Buffalo Law Review 565, 1970.

"Property Tax Assessments: Contract Rent is Fair Market Rent, Or is it?," Real Estate Law Journal, Fall, 1973. "Judicial Remedies for Property Tax Inequalities in New York," N.Y.U. Institute on State and Local Taxation, Fall, 1982. "Where Were You When the Contract Rent Fell Below Market?," Journal of State Taxation, Spring, 1986.

"Discovering ‘Discovery’ in Real Property Tax Review," Journal of State Taxation, Fall, 1986. Co-author: "Challenging Ad Valorem Real Property Assessments in Florida," The Florida Bar Journal, October, 1983. "Computer Software and Sales Taxation," Journal of State Taxation, Fall, 1984.

"The Illegal Residential Assessment Roll in Nassau County, N.Y.," Hofstra Property Law Journal, Fall, 1992. Faculty Member, Real Estate Law, Advanced Practice Institute, Hofstra Law School, 1978-1986. Senior Deputy County Attorney, Chief, Condemnation and Real Estate Tax Review Division, Nassau County Attorney's Office, 1962-1963.

Village Attorney, Incorporated Village of Lake Success, New York, 1968-1979. Special Counsel for Tax Assessment to: City of Yonkers, 1978-1982. Town of Mt. Pleasant, 1978-1982.

Town of Rye, 1978-1983. Village of Port Chester, 1978-1983. Member: Brooklyn (Member, Condemnation Committee, 1968—), Nassau County (Member, Condemnation Law and Tax Certiorari Committee, 1964—), Suffolk County (Member, Condemnation and Tax Certiorari Committee, 1965—), New York State (Member, Committee on Condemnation, Certiorari and Real Estate Taxation, 1966—) and American (Member, Condemnation Committee, 1962—) Bar Associations.

The Florida Bar (Member, Eminent Domain Committee, 1985—). District of Columbia Bar. Institute of Property Taxation (Member, 1978— and Chairman, 1984-1986, Judicial Committee.

Chairman, Tax Certiorari Seminars Practicing Law Institute, 1987 and 1992).

Achievements

• In 1989 Koeppel, with Ernest Raymond Douglas Manners (1929-1996), won the Crawford Medal from the Royal Philatelic Society London for the first two volumes of their work on Indian court fee stamps. Keoppel's collection of British Empire impressed duty stamps, along with the W.J. Pieterse collection, formed the basis for The Impressed Duty Stamps of The British Colonial Empire (A Preliminary Listing) by William A. Barber published in 1988. An update to the 1988 edition of this catalogue (by Wm A Barber and Norman Seidelman) was released in 2009.

Works

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  • The court fee and revenue stamps of the princely states of India: An encyclopedia and reference manual

    (A rare book of invaluabler eference material on fiscal st...)

  • The court fee and revenue stamps of the princely states of India: Supplement

Membership

Member: Brooklyn (Member, Condemnation Committee, 1968—), Nassau County (Member, Condemnation Law and Tax Certiorari Committee, 1964—), Suffolk County (Member, Condemnation and Tax Certiorari Committee, 1965—), New York State (Member, Committee on Condemnation, Certiorari and Real Estate Taxation, 1966—) and American (Member, Condemnation Committee, 1962—) Bar Associations. The Florida Bar (Member, Eminent Domain Committee, 1985—). District of Columbia Bar.

Institute of Property Taxation (Member, 1978— and Chairman, 1984-1986, Judicial Committee. Chairman, Tax Certiorari Seminars Practicing Law Institute, 1987 and 1992).