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based law firm's real estate tax certiOJand condemnation practice group. Shesists in ·preparing tax certiorari casestrial, provides legal research and anal~
and drafts legal memoranda of law. fis also responsible for residential, snclaims tax certiorari cases, for which .attends hearings and . proces;reductions. She worked as a paralegalthe firm's tax certiorari and condemnatdepartment for six years before becoman associate. .
Timothy WeldPartnerPricewaterhouseCoopers
A partner in PWC's Healthcare Assance Practice in Melville, Weld has 17 yeexperience in providing audit and COnsling services exclusively to health Clcli~nts. He manages all phases of heacare audit engagements and serviceshealth care companies, nonprofit acadelmedical centers, hospitals and health sterns and publicly traded laboratory testand home health companies. Weld ahelps with internal control reviews andsessments, including evaluations relatingthe Sirrbanes-Oxley Act and corporate g,ernance. practices, risk assessmentshealth care institutions and due diligelrelated to acquisitions. Weld has sensome of the nation's most prestigious acomplex health Care organizations. He iImember of the Healthcare Financial M~agement Association.
Keri Shannon.
PartnerGetby MarcuS Stem &Lehrer
Ross as of this year was named a part"ner at this Woodbury-based accountingfirm. H~ has more than 25 years of experience, providing audit, tax alid litigationservices to clients, including many in theservice, manufacturing and wholesale industries. As a member of the firm's business valuation and litigation supportgroup Ross has handled shareholder disputes, bankruptcies, health care fraud andbusiness valuations. He also is a memberof the firm's quality control committee.
Michelle E. EspeyAssociateMoritt Hock Hainroff&Horowitz
Taxes involve attorneys andaccciuntants, making lawyers as well as CPAs keyplayers in tax matters. An attorney at thisGarden CitY-based firm, Espey specializesin many aspects of taX law, business taxplanning, state and local taxation and taxcontroversy' matters. ShE) represents manyindividuals and businesses In audits andcollection matters before the Internal RevenueServiee ap.d New York State Department ofTaxation and Finance.
Andrew Ross
Associate.Certilman Balin Adler & Hyman
Shannon is part of this East Meadow-
Partner.MinaHiggins&Eber
Eber in late .2009 co-founded this litigation support, forensic and business valuation accounting partnership in Melvillewith Bruce· Mina and Stephen Higgins.Before starting his own fum".he was a dierector in the litigation support department of Amper Politzi:ri.er ~ Mattia inNew York city. Eber and.his firm special"ize in business valuations, forensic accounting and litigation support to lawfirms throughout the New York metropol~
itan area.
Sofia BlairSenior ManagerHealth Care and Not-for-Profit Services GroupBDOSeidnian
Based in Melville where she oversees45 audit professionals, JUair works withorganiz~tions,including large hospitalsystems, large physician groups,diagnostic imaging centeisand clinics. Shespecializes in the audits of financialstatements, consulting on third"partyrE)imbursement issues and strategicplanning and organizational development. Blair joined BDOin 1998 afterspendingtw'o.years in public apcountingat a firni-in RockVille Centre where sheheganher cjireer. She is a member of
•the Healthcara' Financial ManagementAssociation.
SOFIA BLAIR
KERI SHANNON
MICHELLE E. ESPEY
ANDREW ROSS
TIMOTHY WELD
WILLIAM A; EBER