John Pontius is the founder of Pontius Tax Law, PLLC. He started as an Army JAG officer, deployed to Iraq with the 1st Armored Division, earned a Tax LL.M. from Georgetown on the GI Bill, and worked in the international corporate tax group at KPMG before starting his own firm eight years ago.

We talk about building a tax controversy practice, the three-question test he uses to decide whether to take a case, how military training shows up in running a small firm, and what he'd tell a young lawyer thinking about going out on their own.

John's firm: Pontius Tax Law, PLLC

Show notes: citedauthorities.com/episodes/john-pontius

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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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