Cited Authorities

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 for the Tax Division. Today’s episode is about judgment, justice, and humility. Rod distinguishes a prosecutable case from a case that merits prosecution. He walks through the questions a prosecutor should ask before charging: “Can I?” “Must I?” and “Sho...

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 Turanchik Tompkins. We talked about why he left class-action defense for the Tax Division, a high-profile Internal Revenue Code section 6103 donor-disclosure case, and teaching trial lawyers at the National Advocacy Center. We also discussed the DOJ's recent structu...

“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 course and is the author or co-author of 16 books, including 7 Rules of Power. We begin with power, agency, self-advocacy, and why good work remains invisible unless someone makes it visible. Pfeffer also explains why relationships and distribution may become...

Full Subscriber Edition: https://citedauthorities.substack.com/p/how-the-irs-dirty-dozen-was-created Terry Lemons spent more than 26 years at the IRS, 11 of them leading communications for the agency. Before that he covered the 1992 presidential campaign, Congress, and the White House as a newspaper reporter. Today he handles public relations at Frost Law, and he just wrote a book about the 1926 St. Louis Cardinals. He joined the IRS in 1998, right after the Roth hearings had put the agency...

Full Subscriber Edition: https://citedauthorities.substack.com/p/why-direct-examination-is-harder-than-cross C. Evan Stewart practiced law for more than 47 years, most of it in securities and financial services litigation, and retired from Cohen & Gresser in 2025. He tried major cases in private practice without ever working as a federal prosecutor, which is rare on Wall Street. He taught for three decades at Fordham, Cornell, and Brooklyn Law School, has written roughly 300 articles, an...