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- Deputy State’s Attorney for Calvert County; Victoria F. Gelfman Legal Excellence Award; Case Featured on CBS 48 Hours
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- Director, Graduate Tax Program, Georgetown University Law Center
- City Solicitor, Baltimore City Department of Law; Former Counsel, Venable LLP; USMC Reserve Officer
- Director, Graduate Tax Program, University of Baltimore School of Law
- Founder & Managing Partner, Frost Law; Attorney & CPA
- Partner, Cuneo Gilbert Flannery & LaDuca; Former Executive Director, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
- Managing Attorney, Pontius Tax Law; Georgetown Tax LL.M.; Former Judge Advocate, U.S. Army
- Retired Senior Partner, Cohen & Gresser LLP; Author, William Henry Seward’s Quest to Save the Nation (Twelve Tables Press, 2026); ~300 Published Legal Articles
- Director of Public Relations, Frost Law; Author, The Year St. Louis Became a Baseball Town (Arcadia Publishing, 2026); Former Chief of Communications & Liaison, IRS; 2017 Presidential Rank Award; Former White House Press Corps; Washington Bureau Chief
- Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior, Stanford Graduate School of Business; Author of 16 Books, including 7 Rules of Power; Thinkers 50 Hall of Fame
- Partner, Nardiello Turanchik Tompkins; Former DOJ Tax Division Trial Attorney & AUSA
- Partner, Baker McKenzie; Former Deputy Attorney General of the United States; Former U.S. Attorney, District of Maryland
- 15Andrew T. WiseSeptember 16Member & White-Collar Defense Practice Lead, Miller & Chevalier
- 16Melissa L. WileySeptember 30Partner, Kostelanetz LLP; Tax Controversy; Regent, American College of Tax Counsel
- Associate Judge, District Court of Maryland, District 5, Prince George’s County
- 18Oluwaseun ‘Seun’ WilliamsOctober 28Partner, Law Office of Thomas E. Pyles, P.A.; Former Prince George’s County Assistant State’s Attorney
- Clinical Professor of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine; author of Sunshine (Crown, 2026) and creator of the Stanford course From Diagnosis to Dialogue
- Alexander Hamilton Professor of Business Law & Co-Director, Health Law Program, George Washington University Law School; author of Stateless Commerce (Harvard University Press, 2017); former Special Counsel for Competition Policy, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Guests
Robert C. Bonsib
Co-Founder, MarcusBonsib; Heeney Award, Lifetime Excellence in Criminal Law
Fred Brown
Director, Graduate Tax Program, University of Baltimore School of Law
Ellis Duncan
Director, Graduate Tax Program, Georgetown University Law Center
Glen Frost
Founder & Managing Partner, Frost Law; Attorney & CPA
Pamela Gilbert
Partner, Cuneo Gilbert Flannery & LaDuca; Former Executive Director, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
Terry Lemons
Director of Public Relations, Frost Law; Author, The Year St. Louis Became a Baseball Town (2026); Former Chief of Communications & Liaison, IRS; 2017 Presidential Rank Award
Dr. Bryant Lin
Clinical Professor of Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine; author of Sunshine (Crown, 2026) and creator of From Diagnosis to Dialogue
Christopher J. Monte
Deputy State’s Attorney for Calvert County
Judge Erik H. Nyce
Associate Judge, District Court of Maryland, District 5, Prince George’s County
John Pontius
Managing Attorney, Pontius Tax Law; Georgetown Tax LL.M.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
Professor of Organizational Behavior, Stanford GSB; Thinkers 50 Hall of Fame
Barak Richman
Alexander Hamilton Professor of Business Law & Co-Director, Health Law Program, George Washington University Law School
Rod J. Rosenstein
Former Deputy Attorney General of the United States; Former U.S. Attorney, District of Maryland
Lisa D. Sparks
Chief Administrative Officer, Schuster Companies
C. Evan Stewart
Retired Senior Partner, Cohen & Gresser LLP; Author, William Henry Seward’s Quest to Save the Nation (Twelve Tables Press, 2026); ~300 Published Legal Articles
Ebony M. Thompson
City Solicitor, Baltimore City Department of Law; USMC Reserve Officer
Ben Tompkins
Partner, Nardiello Turanchik Tompkins; Former DOJ Tax Division Trial Attorney
Melissa L. Wiley
Partner, Kostelanetz LLP; Regent, American College of Tax Counsel
Oluwaseun ‘Seun’ Williams
Partner, Law Office of Thomas E. Pyles, P.A.; Former Prince George’s County Assistant State’s Attorney
Andrew T. Wise
Member & White-Collar Defense Practice Lead, Miller & Chevalier
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