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 answered to Congress, industry, and a career staff, and learned what changes when the outside advocate becomes the implementer.

In this episode: the path from Tufts activism to Ralph Nader's network, how a small, underfunded agency drives outsized impact through recalls and the bully pulpit, what agency independence really protects, the Raechel and Jacqueline Houck Safe Rental Car Act, the anti-monopoly movement, and the decades-long corporate effort to shut the courthouse doors to regular people.

Pamela Gilbert is a Partner at Cuneo Gilbert Flannery and LaDuca in Washington, DC. She chairs the board of the American Antitrust Institute and serves on the board of the National Consumers League.

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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, the District of Columbia, Virginia, Florida, Pennsylvania, and Arizona, and before the U.S. Tax Court, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, and the Supreme Court of the United States. He started as a solo practitioner and built Frost Law into an 80-plus person multidisciplinary firm of attorneys, CPAs, enrolled agents, and Certified Fraud Examiners.

In this episode, Glen and Alex talked about how Glen built Frost Law from a one-lawyer office. The first hire. The pivot to a multidisciplinary firm. Scaling across multiple state bars. Expert-witness work in tax sentencing. IRS workforce cuts and how they land on clients waiting on audits and appeals, the Employee Retention Credit era and what it did to Frost Law's growth, penalty regime questions and circuit splits practitioners are watching, and the advice Glen gives young lawyers weighing Big Law, accounting firms, and tax boutiques.

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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 JD summa cum laude, then to NYU Law for his Tax LLM. He spent two years at Shaw Pittman in DC and taught as an acting assistant professor at NYU before joining UBalt in fall 1990. He has coached UBalt Law's tax moot court team for over 30 years and co-authored Understanding Taxation of Business Entities with Professor Walter Schwidetzky. In this episode, Fred and Alex discuss why engineers make good tax lawyers, how Fred recruited Tax Court judges and former DOJ Tax Division leaders to teach, Fred's year advising the Joint Committee on Taxation during the 2000-2001 simplification study, Glen Frost's ascent from UBalt Law to founding one of Maryland's fastest-growing law firms, and what running nine marathons has taught Fred about preparation.

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