On Tax

Jason Weinstein is the Director of Tax Planning and Policy at Amazon. Jason grew up in New Jersey and, after college, worked in the governor’s office before attending the University of Michigan Law School. In this episode of On Tax, he talks to host Len Teti about his decision to move across the country from a New York City law firm to his current in-house position at Amazon in Seattle. Hosted on...

Larry Pasini is the founder of Pasini Law LLC. A born and raised New Yorker, Larry grew up in Queens before receiving full scholarships to attend Fordham and St. John’s Law. In this episode of On Tax, he talks to host Len Teti about his experiences at three of the top law firms in New York City, including Cravath, and his decision to start his own law practice in 2017. Learn more about On Tax at&n...

Alyson Lawrence is Vice President, Tax Planning and Counsel, at Johnson & Johnson. A third-generation CPA, Alyson grew up on a peach farm in southern New Jersey before she attended Georgetown and UVA Law. In this episode of On Tax, she talks to host Len Teti about her experiences at a Big Four accounting firm and as an associate at a law firm in Washington, D.C. before turning to an in-house p...

Steve Gordon served as Head or Co-Head of Cravath’s Tax Department from 2000 through 2020. In this episode of On Tax, he talks to host and fellow Cravath partner Len Teti about the many different paths people take into tax law, how his interest in transactional work led him to the tax practice at Cravath—where high-profile M&A and other corporate transactions are a cornerstone—and the collabor...

This season, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP partner and host Len Teti speaks to guests including Alyson Lawrence of Johnson & Johnson, who says she was “born to be a tax lawyer”; Jason Weinstein of Amazon, who tells us about his decision to move across the country to Seattle from his job at a New York law firm; and Larry Pasini of Pasini Law, who had stints at three of the top law firms in Ne...