Ronald M. Katz, a co-founding partner of Katz & Korin, leads the firm's tax, business and estate planning practice. Mr. Katz's practice extensively involves contract negotiations, acquisitions and sales of existing businesses, and sports and entertainment law matters. He has served as an adjunct Professor of Law for the Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis (Real Estate Transactions, Partnership Taxation) and, since 1993, has taught the Indiana Bar Review courses on Wills, Trusts and Administration, Real Property Law and Personal Property Law.

Mr. Katz has lectured throughout the country and written extensively about creating and structuring affordable housing opportunities and other community development initiatives. He chaired the American Bar Association (ABA) Forum on Affordable Housing and Community Development Law in 2005-06, and co-chaired the ABA Forum's annual continuing legal education conferences in 2000 and 2001 in Washington, D.C. He is the author of Housing and Development Forms and Commentary, a 1996 publication of West Group, and Housing Tax Credits in Indiana, a 1995 (2nd Edition) publication of METRO Publishing Co., Inc. In recent years Mr. Katz has devoted his “extracurricular” writing, research and teaching energies to local and national continuing legal education initiatives throughout the country relating to his areas of practice.

Mr. Katz is a member of the National Advisory Board of the West Group's Housing and Development Reporter (1994-present) and serves on the board of directors of the Indiana Equity Fund, Inc. (1992-present), which was created to provide several million dollars of equity assistance to smaller affordable housing communities in the State of Indiana. Mr. Katz served as General Counsel to the Indianapolis Bar Association (IBA) Board of Managers (2004) and currently serves as a Vice President of the IBA Board of Managers. Mr. Katz is an active member in several arts and civic organizations in the City of Indianapolis, including service as Secretary of the Board of Directors for the Coalition for Homelessness Intervention and Prevention of Greater Indianapolis, Inc. (CHIP), and as Chair of CHIP's Pipeline Committee.

Mr. Katz served as president of the Jewish Community Center Association of Indianapolis, a United Way agency, from 1995 to 1998, and, since 2003, has served on the Board of Directors for the Jewish Community Centers Association of North America. He is a 1997 recipient of the Jewish Federation of Greater Indianapolis' L.L. Goodman Leadership Award, and a 1991 recipient of the Jewish Community Center Martin L. Larner Leadership Development Award. He has been recognized as a life member of the National Registry of Who's Who, as a Distinguished Fellow of the Indianapolis Bar Foundation, a Fellow of the Indiana Bar Foundation and as a 2002 recipient of the Indianapolis Bar Association Dr. John Morton-Finney Excellence in Legal Education Award.

Mr. Katz is a graduate of the Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis and also holds a Masters of Law in Taxation degree from the Georgetown University Law Center, a certified public accountant license from the State of Maryland (1984) and has been admitted to practice in the District of Columbia. Mr. Katz can be reached via e-mail at rkatz@katzkorin.com.