Category: Guest Speaker – Regulation

IRS Guest Speaker

Garrett Gluth Esq., Chief of the Legal Analysis Branch of the Internal Revenue Service’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) and staff spoke Alfred students to explain what professional responsibilities are required of those who give tax advice, or represent clients before the Internal Revenue Service. This is one of many topics covered by current CPA licensing exam.

OPR’s mission and objectives are to support effective tax administration by ensuring that all tax practitioners, tax preparers, and other third parties in the tax system adhere to professional standards and follow the law.

FTC Guest Speaker

Carol Kando-Pineda has been an attorney with the Federal Trade Commission since 1990.  She has served in a number of positions at the Commission.  She began as a staff attorney bringing cases about deceptive advertising.  She then became Legislative Counsel in the Commission’s Office of Congressional Relations.  She now manages outreach partnerships with community organizations and other institutions.  She also leads creative teams to create print publications, websites, and videos to give people practical tips and tools to be more savvy consumers.
She earned her A.B. from Harvard and J.D. from Suffolk University School of Law.

You can see her Linkedin profile at:

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/carol-kando-pineda/5/769/503

EPA Guest Speaker

Paul Simon is a senior official of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Region 2, which encompasses New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. In his current position, he leads EPA Region 2’s climate change efforts. He guides Region 2’s development of strategies for promoting climate change mitigation and climate adaptation, and serves as a liaison on climate change issues with other EPA offices as well as other federal and state government agencies, municipalities and other stakeholders.

Mr. Simon has been with EPA since 1985 and for many years, served there as a managing attorney. As the Deputy Regional Counsel from 2005 to 2010, he worked closely with the Regional Counsel in the management and direction of an office of eighty lawyers providing legal support for the Agency’s implementation and enforcement of many federal environmental laws. He also directly managed the office’s legal efforts relating to the Hudson River PCBs Superfund Site. In addition, in 2009, Mr. Simon served on a 4-month detail in EPA Headquarters as Acting Deputy Director of the Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water.

Mr. Simon earned his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and his Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University.

 

FTC Guest Speaker

Carol Kando-Pineda has been an attorney with the Federal Trade Commission since 1990.  She has served in a number of positions at the Commission.  She began as a staff attorney bringing cases about deceptive advertising.  She then became Legislative Counsel in the Commission’s Office of Congressional Relations.  She now manages outreach partnerships with community organizations and other institutions.  She also leads creative teams to create print publications, websites, and videos to give people practical tips and tools to be more savvy consumers.
She earned her A.B. from Harvard and J.D. from Suffolk University School of Law.

You can see her Linkedin profile at:

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/carol-kando-pineda/5/769/503