Biography

As former senior tax partner and current managing partner for Harbourton Enterprises, a private investment firm, David Mills has extensive experience in investment and finance, including the defense of those charged with business crimes. A leading architect of contemporary partnership and enterprise tax law, he has taught a variety of tax courses at Stanford Law School, as well as a class on white-collar crime. A passionate advocate of social justice, he also has played a major role in the development of the law school’s clinical education programs, and has served as the director of clinical education. Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 2000, he was a senior tax partner in the northeastern law firm of Lowenstein, Kohl, Fisher & Boyla, and a lecturer at Rutgers School of Law-Newark and the University of Santa Clara Law School.

Courses & Programs

Courses

• White Collar Crime

Programs

• Stanford Criminal Justice Center (SCJC), Senior Lecturer in Law

Publications & Cases

• David W. Mills. A Very Strange Indictment, WALL STREET JOURNAL, October 12, 2005, p. A16. (with Robert Weisberg)
• David W. Mills. The Case Against John Ashcroft, SLATE, October 27, 2004. (with Robert Weisberg)
• David Mills and Robert Weisberg, Flunking the Martha Test, The Wall Street Journal, p. A10 (January 16, 2004).
• Robert Weisberg and David Mills, Violence Silence: Why No One Really Cares About Prison Rape, MSN Slate, 4 pages, (October 1, 2003).

Affiliations & Honors

Professional Affiliations

• Managing Partner, Harbourton Enterprises
• Chairman, American Bar Association Committee on Partnership Taxation
• Chairman, New Jersey Bar Association Section of Taxation