Cited Authorities
Behind every successful legal career is a series of decisions that never made it onto a résumé. Cited Authorities features conversations with accomplished lawyers, and the leaders who shape their field, about career inflection points, professional judgment, reputation, leadership, and the real stories behind professional success.
Excellent legal careers are not accidents. Hear the stories of how they were built.
Episodes
9 episodes
Pamela Gilbert: The Attorney Fighting for Consumer Safety
Pamela Gilbert spent years pressuring federal agencies from the outside, at U.S. Public Interest Research Group and Public Citizen's Congress Watch. Then she ran one. As Executive Director of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, she ans...
Glen Frost: Building Frost Law and Practicing Tax Controversy
Episode 7 of Cited Authorities. A conversation with Glen Frost, Founder and Managing Partner of Frost Law.Glen is an attorney, a CPA, and a Certified Financial Planner, with an LL.M. in Taxation. He is admitted to practice in Maryland, ...
Fred Brown – Leading UBalt Law's Graduate Tax Program
Episode 6 of Cited Authorities. A conversation with Fred Brown, Director of the Graduate Tax Program at the University of Baltimore School of Law since 1990.Fred started as an electrical engineer at Rutgers, went to Georgetown Law for his J...
Ebony M. Thompson – Baltimore's Attorney, Fighting for Her City
Episode 5 of Cited Authorities. A Saturday-afternoon conversation with Ebony M. Thompson, Baltimore City Solicitor. She is Baltimore's chief legal officer, and the first woman and first openly gay person to hold the role in the city's nearly 30...
Ellis Duncan: Leading Georgetown Law's Graduate Tax Program
Ellis Duncan is the Director of the Graduate Tax Program at Georgetown University Law Center. He built his tax career through Ernst & Young's M&A group in New York City and hedge fund work at Ropes & Gray. In 2011, Ellis had a netwo...
Robert C. Bonsib: 300+ Jury Trials & What They Don't Teach You in Law School
Robert C. Bonsib is the co-founder of MarcusBonsib and a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He has tried more than 300 jury trials across state and federal courts, beginning his career as a prosecutor in Prince George's County, Ma...
Lisa D. Sparks – First in Her Family, First in Her Class
Lisa D. Sparks was the first person in her family to graduate from high school. At age 22, she graduated from law school as valedictorian. She built a construction litigation practice, served as a JAG captain, and guided a software company thro...
Christopher J. Monte – Award-Winning Prosecutor
Before he became an award-winning homicide prosecutor, Christopher J. Monte was a classical musician in the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In this series premiere of Cited Authorities, Alex and Chris discuss Chris's path from music to law, their ti...