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
18 episodes
Seun Williams on Moving From Prosecution to Defense and What Juvenile Court Teaches
Seun Williams, a partner at the Law Office of Thomas E. Pyles, P.A., joins Alexander Powell to talk about moving from prosecuting cases in Prince George's County to the defense table, what juvenile court teaches a lawyer, and what he learned ar...
Melissa L. Wiley on Tax Controversy, Teaching, and Judgment
Melissa L. Wiley, a partner at Kostelanetz LLP and an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law, joins Alexander Powell to talk about tax controversy, teaching, and the judgment required for effective advocacy.CHAPTERS0:00 Welcome to Cited...
Andrew T. Wise on What Public Defense Teaches a Trial Lawyer
Andrew T. Wise leads the White Collar Defense practice at Miller & Chevalier. He has tried more than 50 cases to resolution, and he started as a public defender at the DC Public Defender Service. Today's episode is about trial craft, client trust...
Rod J. Rosenstein, Former Deputy Attorney General of the United States
Rod J. Rosenstein is a partner at Baker McKenzie and co-chair of its national security practice. He previously served as Deputy Attorney General of the United States, U.S. Attorney for Maryland, and Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General f...
Ben Tompkins: From DOJ Prosecutor to Defense Counsel
Episode 13 of Cited Authorities. A conversation with Ben Tompkins, former trial attorney in the Justice Department's Tax Division and former Assistant United States Attorney in Los Angeles.Tompkins is now a partner at Nardiello Turanchi...
Power Is Fire: Jeffrey Pfeffer on Why Good Work Is Not Enough
“Power is a tool. You know, it’s like fire.”Jeffrey Pfeffer is the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he has taught since 1979. He created Stanford GSB’s Paths to Power c...
Terry Lemons: White House Reporter, IRS Insider, Baseball Historian
Full Subscriber Edition: https://citedauthorities.substack.com/p/how-the-irs-dirty-dozen-was-createdTerry Lemons spent more than 26 years at the IRS, 11 of them leading communications for the agency. Before that he covered the 1992 pres...
C. Evan Stewart: Wall Street Trial Attorney, Historian, and Author
Full Subscriber Edition: https://citedauthorities.substack.com/p/why-direct-examination-is-harder-than-crossC. Evan Stewart practiced law for more than 47 years, most of it in securities and financial services litigation, and retired fr...
John Pontius – From the JAG Corps to Founding a Tax Law Firm
Full Subscriber Edition: https://citedauthorities.substack.com/p/john-pontius-from-army-jag-to-tax-controversyJohn Pontius is the founder of Pontius Tax Law, PLLC. He started as an Army JAG officer, deployed to Iraq with the 1st Armored...
Pamela Gilbert: The Attorney Fighting for Consumer Safety
Full Subscriber Edition: https://citedauthorities.substack.com/p/running-the-cpsc-and-the-safe-rental-car-actPamela Gilbert spent years pressuring federal agencies from the outside, at U.S. Public Interest Research Group and Public Citi...
Ep. 7: Building a Tax Controversy Practice | Glen Frost, Attorney and CPA
Full Subscriber Edition: https://citedauthorities.substack.com/p/building-a-tax-controversy-practiceEpisode 7 of Cited Authorities. A conversation with Glen Frost, Founder and Managing Partner of Frost Law.Glen is an attorney, a...
Fred Brown – Leading UBalt Law's Graduate Tax Program
Full Subscriber Edition: https://citedauthorities.substack.com/p/advising-congress-on-tax-simplificationEpisode 6 of Cited Authorities. A conversation with Fred Brown, Director of the Graduate Tax Program at the University of Baltimore ...
Ep. 5: Running a City Law Department | Ebony M. Thompson, Baltimore City Solicitor
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
Full Subscriber Edition: https://citedauthorities.substack.com/p/how-to-build-a-career-in-tax-lawEllis Duncan is the Director of the Graduate Tax Program at Georgetown University Law Center. He built his tax career through Ernst & Y...
Robert C. Bonsib: 300+ Jury Trials & What They Don't Teach You in Law School
Full Subscriber Edition: https://citedauthorities.substack.com/p/what-300-jury-trials-teach-you-about-cross-examinationRobert C. Bonsib is the co-founder of MarcusBonsib and a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He has trie...
Ep. 2: Construction Law and Running a 1,000-Person Company | Lisa D. Sparks
Full Subscriber Edition: https://citedauthorities.substack.com/p/construction-law-and-running-a-1000Lisa D. Sparks was the first person in her family to graduate from high school. At age 22, she graduated from law school as valedictoria...
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...