Michael A. Shea
Mr. Shea received his B.A. from the University of Iowa in 1968. He attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and received a B.Litt. degree in 1973. He received his J.D. from the University of Iowa in 1974, where he was a member of the Law Review and Order of the Coif.
Mr. Shea practiced with the Honolulu office of Cades Schutte Fleming & Wright from 1974 to 1983, and with the Honolulu office of Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel from 1983 to 1996. He is now retired from the Denver office of Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons LLP, where he had practiced since 1996.
He has taught numerous tax courses, including as an adjunct professor with the Graduate Tax Program of the Denver University College of Law (tax-exempt organizations); as an adjunct professor of law at the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaii (corporate taxation); and as tax seminar faculty with the CPE Program at Denver University, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Community Foundation Serving Boulder Valley, the Hawaii Tax Institute, the Hawaii Society of CPAs, the Colorado Society of CPAs, and the Hawaii Institute of Continuing Legal Education.
He has also served as an officer and director of numerous nonprofit and professional organizations, including the Denver Police Foundation, Denver CASA, Boulder Building Blocks Fund, Environmental Foundation, Tax Foundation of Hawaii, and Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii.
Mr. Shea has been a member of the Hawaii State Bar Association, where he is a past chairman of the Tax Section; the American Bar Association; the Colorado Bar Association; the Denver Bar Association; the American Health Lawyers Association; and the National Bond Lawyers Association. He is admitted to practice before the Colorado Supreme Court (currently inactive), Hawaii Supreme Court (currently inactive), U.S. Tax Court, U.S. District Courts for the District of Hawaii and the District of Colorado, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
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