A former Legal Counsel to a member of the Board of Equalization and Franchise Tax Board, he has decades of experience in handling the most difficult tax cases before those Boards as well as the Employment Development Department, local agencies and assessment appeals boards and the courts. As a registered lobbyist, he is also able to craft strategies that integrate legislative and regulatory and initiative/referenda elements that have led to tremendous victories by our clients. He also serves as a member or the Board of Directors of Entertainment Partners, headquartered in Burbank, California, and served as Chair of of the Board’s Audit Committee from 2004-2014. Entertainment Partners is the largest Motion Picture Payroll Services Company in the United States and is California’s largest private employer. Mr. Miethke has served on its Board since the company’s inception as an ESOP-owned company in 2004. New York University Master of Laws (in Taxation) University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law Juris Doctor Stanford University B.A. Economics