About the Author

Donald Scotten earned his law degree at the College of William and Mary and his LL.M. in taxation at New York University. A former senior counsel for Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., and senior associate at Howrey LLP, he is now the vice dean for administration and a professor of the practice of law at the University of Southern California's Gould School of Law. Professor Scotten teaches courses on business organizations, mergers and acquisitions, and the United States legal system. His professional writing has appeared in Business Law Today, a journal of the American Bar Association.