Cited Authorities

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. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome to Cited Authorities 0:22 Math, music, and an actuarial career 3:08 From reinsurance to Georgetown Law 4:46 Marty Ginsburg and the road to tax controversy 5:20 Why the law is so often a second career 6:26 "I fight the man" 8:03 Teaching tax research and writing at Georg...

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, and what public defense teaches. Andy explains how fact development and case theory carried from indigent defense into corporate investigations, how you earn the trust of a client who did not choose you, and why he tells young lawyers to find t...

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...