Cited Authorities

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, and has written...

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 t...

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...

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 t...

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...

Episode 5 of Cited Authorities. A Saturday-afternoon conversation with Ebony M. Thompson, Baltimore City Solicitor. She is Baltimore's chief legal officer, and the first woman and first openly gay person to hold the role in the city's nearly 300-year history. We talked about a career that runs from a Baltimore public-school internship to City Hall: economics at Brown, the Marine Corps Re...

Ellis Duncan is the Director of the Graduate Tax Program at Georgetown University Law Center. He built his tax career through Ernst & Young's M&A group in New York City and hedge fund work at Ropes & Gray. In 2011, Ellis had a networking meeting with Albert Lauber, then the director of Georgetown Law's Graduate Tax Program, to ask about transitioning into government. Ellis wa...

Robert C. Bonsib is the co-founder of MarcusBonsib and a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He has tried more than 300 jury trials across state and federal courts, beginning his career as a prosecutor in Prince George's County, Maryland, in 1974. He served as an Assistant United States Attorney, and as Deputy State's Attorney under the Honorable Alexander Williams Jr., befo...

Lisa D. Sparks was the first person in her family to graduate from high school. At age 22, she graduated from law school as valedictorian. She built a construction litigation practice, served as a JAG captain, and guided a software company through a private equity buyout as general counsel. Lisa walked into her first day at a 1,000-employee construction firm expecting to be in-house counsel, only...

Before he became an award-winning homicide prosecutor, Christopher J. Monte was a classical musician in the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In this series premiere of Cited Authorities, Alex and Chris discuss Chris's path from music to law, their time working together as prosecutors, how Chris prosecutes high-profile cases, and his career advice to law students and new prosecutors. Cited Authoriti...

Cited Authorities is a new interview series hosted by Washington, DC tax attorney and former prosecutor Alexander Powell. Behind every successful legal career is a series of decisions that never made it onto a résumé. Every episode we talk to accomplished attorneys to hear those stories. Season One guests include: Rod Rosenstein, Partner at Baker McKenzie, Former Deputy Attorney General of the Uni...