Faruki Ireland & Cox have announced that partners Charles Faruki and Jeffrey Ireland have been recognized by 2017 Best Lawyers in America in several categories.
Best Lawyers is the oldest and most respected peer-review publications in the legal profession. Their lists of outstanding attorneys are compiled by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys, in which tens of thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers.
Faruki is listed in the following categories:
• Bet-The-Company Litigation
• Commercial Litigation
• Criminal Defense: White-Collar
• Energy Law
• Antitrust Litigation
• Intellectual Property Litigation
• Patent Litigation
Ireland is listed in the following categories:
• Advertising Law
• Bet-The-Company Litigation
• Commercial Litigation
• Antitrust Litigation
• Intellectual Property Litigation
For more information, please visit http://www.bestlawyers.com/.
TAX
Gilbert completes designation
Stephen F. Gilbert, Tax Advisor at BLOCK Advisors, recently completed the testing and licensing requirements by the Internal Revenue Service and was awarded the designation "Enrolled Agent".
Enrolled Agents (EA) are known as “America’s Tax Experts” and are federally licensed tax practitioners by IRS who have proven technical expertise in the field of taxation and are empowered by the U. S. Department of the Treasury to represent taxpayers for audits, collections and appeals before all administrative levels of IRS.
Please refer to www.naea.org for further information about the Enrolled Agent profession as it relates to income tax preparation, representing taxpayers with IRS problems, amending tax returns, helping clients negotiate and settle their tax debts or liens with IRS, file late tax returns, etc.
HIGHER EDUCATION
Two receive awards at Miami
Jacqueline Rioja-Velarde and Katherine Fowler-Cordova of Miami University will receive awards from the Ohio Latino Affairs Commission for outstanding achievements in professional and community service and for serving as role models for the Hispanic community in Ohio.
Rioja-Velarde, associate director of Miami's Center for American and World Cultures, will receive a Distinguished Hispanic Ohioan Award. The award is given to individuals who work steadfastly to ensure their communities become a better place for both Hispanics and the general public.
Rioja-Velarde coordinates the Latin American and Caribbean Festival and Cesar Chavez program; served as president of the Association of Latin American Faculty and Staff and represents Miami on the Latino Leaders Collaborative Initiative of Southwest Ohio. She also helped start “Latinas in Ohio” to provide advocacy, mentorship and education, and she serves on several committees and councils that advocate for people with disabilities.
Fowler-Cordova, senior lecturer in Spanish and Portuguese, will receive a Nuestra Familia (Our Family) Award. Awardees are non-Hispanic individuals or organizations that encourage the inclusion of Latinos in Ohio and are committed to making Ohio a welcoming place to all people.
Her nominator highlighted the programs and courses that Fowler-Cordova has developed and implemented at Miami and at the Su Casa Hispanic Center. One Miami course, Spanish Individualized Instruction, is the first language course at Miami designed for Spanish heritage speakers and also benefits Latino Ohioans by having students provide outreach to the Latino community in Butler County.
Rioja-Velarde and Fowler-Cordova will receive their awards at the 36th annual Governor’s Distinguished Hispanic Ohioans Awards Gala this month (October).
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