Mr. Backstrom is a Board Certified Tax Specialist in Louisiana and is a frequent lecturer and author on a variety of tax topics, including all aspects of Louisiana state and local taxation, as well as state and local tax issues relating to multistate and multinational operations. Mr. Backstrom has lectured at programs presented by the Committee on State Taxation (COST), New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies, the Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants/The Florida Bar, the Louisiana Society of Certified Public Accountants, the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants, Tax Executives Institute, Inc., the Institute of Professionals in Taxation (IPT), and professional education providers. Mr. Backstrom also developed and teaches the State and Local Tax Course in the Graduate Accounting Program (Taxation Specialization) at the University of New Orleans. He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief, as well as co-author, for the Louisiana Chapter of the Property Tax Deskbook, which is published annually by the State and Local Tax Committee of the ABA Section on Taxation. He also is the Louisiana correspondent for State Tax Notes (Tax Analysts) and is a contributing author to COST's State Tax Report.

Mr. Backstrom is a member of the Advisory Board of the Paul J. Hartman Memorial State and Local Tax Forum, the Advisory Board of Tax Analysts' State Tax OneDisc, and the Executive Committee of the National Association of State Bar Tax Sections. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America^® (Woodward/White, Inc.) in the area of Tax Law.