Adjunct Faculty

Adjunct Lecturer
Office Location: PH-Room-215 I
Phone: 718-997-5068
Email: Ernest.Barone@qc.cuny.edu

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I usually teach undergraduate Federal Income Taxation at Queens College. I have an MS in Accounting from Queens College and I am also a Certified Public Accountant. I have been employed at the Internal Revenue Service as an Appeals Officer for over 35 years. My job is to settle tax controversies. I must do this by being impartial to the government and taxpayer, a challenging task because I am employed by the IRS. However I am usually successful because I resolve the overwhelming majority of my cases. My IRS Appeals experience enables me to bring real life experiences to the classroom. Also, my Appeals Officer experience enables me to give students a government and taxpayer perspective of the tax law. When teaching controversial tax issues (of which there are many) I try to give the students an “IRS” prospective as well as a “taxpayer” prospective. This encourages students to listen to both sides of a tax controversy and to critically analyze the arguments made by each side.

Position:  Adjunct Assistant Professor
Email:  joseph.calamari@qc.cuny.edu

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I am an attorney with over 25 years of experience practicing law, specializing in providing estate planning and tax advice. In addition to my law degree, I have an undergraduate degree in Accounting and a Masters degree in Taxation. I started teaching at Queens College as an adjunct in 2018 and am currently teaching individual income taxation.

Adjunct Lecturer
Office Location: PH-Room-215Q
Phone: 718-997-
Email: Marlene.Dockery@qc.cuny.edu

Adjunct Professor of Law
Phone: 718-997-
Email: Leo.Herczog@qc.cuny.edu

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Independent of my position at Queens College I have been teaching Law to Attorneys as part of their Continuing Legal Education requirements. Additionally, I have been teaching Mock Trial and Survey Courses at high schools throughout the New York Metropolitan area.

My expertise and practice includes Guardianship law, Diversity, Sexual Harassment, & Gender Neutrality law, Immigration law, Tort law, Education law, Real Estate transactions, Constitutional law, Contracts, International Business transactions and International law. I am a graduate of Hofstra University School of Law with a degree of Juris Doctor and am admitted to the bar of the State of New York.

Adjunct Assistant Professor
Office Location: PH-Room-215 M
Phone: 718-997-
Email: David.Kirschner@qc.cuny.edu

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HON. David J. Kirschner is a judge of the Criminal Court of the City of New York presiding in Queens County. Judge Kirschner previously served as Principal Law Clerk to two New York State Supreme Court Justices from 2007 until his appointment to the bench in June 2016. In 2008, he was elected director of the Association of Law Secretaries to Justices of the Supreme and Surrogate Courts, on which he served until June 2016. In 2018, he was elected to the Brandeis Law Association’s Board of Directors.

Prior to serving as a law clerk, Judge Kirschner was a senior assistant district attorney in New York City where he prosecuted white-collar crimes including racketeering, enterprise corruption, extortion, usury, gambling, fraud and public corruption, and supervised the arrest, intake and arraignment process. While specializing in the direction of covert investigations and electronic surveillance, he successfully litigated and tried numerous cases, several of which significantly impacted legal precedent. Judge Kirschner also writes and speaks extensively on issues of criminal law and procedure for the bench and bar including search and seizure, electronic surveillance and bail reform.

Academically, Judge Kirschner is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law with the City University of New York at Queens College and Touro College. He has also taught trial advocacy at Hofstra Law School’s National Institute for Trial Advocacy, and Cardozo Law School’s Intensive Trial Advocacy Program. Currently, he serves as director of the high school mock trial program at the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns in Nassau County, previously served in that capacity at Mesivta Ateres Yaakov from 2011 – 2015 and has served as a judge in the New York Statewide High School Mock Trial Tournament.

Communally, Judge Kirschner is an international director of the Alpha Epsilon Pi International fraternity, previously serving as regional director from 2015-2018, and president of the Jewish Community Baseball League of Queens and Long Island. Prior to his appointment, he also served as director of the Queens Jewish Community Council, the Kew Gardens Hills Youth Center and the Queens District Attorney’s Jewish Advisory Council.

Judge Kirschner earned his Juris Doctor from Hofstra University (1989), where he served as Managing Editor of the Property Law Journal, and Bachelor of Science with Honors from Florida State University (1985).

Adjunct Lecturer
Email: Zohaib.Qamar2@gmail.com

Adjunct Assistant Professor
Phone: 718-997-5070

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Randy Stein is an alumnus of Queens College. In addition to his degree from Queens, he also holds an MBA in Finance and a J. D. . He has over 35 years of experience in the practice of law. He has taught at LIU ‘s Brooklyn campus for 15 years and at Queens College for over 12 years. Prof Stein enjoys telling his students “war stories” from his practice in order to make the subject matter of business law a bit more interesting and hopefully somewhat amusing.

Adjunct Assistant Professor
Phone: 718-997-5070
Email: Michael.Thaler@qc.cuny.edu

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This is my second go-around at the College. I re-joined the College in 2017 as an adjunct Assistant Professor after teaching at Molloy College in Rockville Centre. I received my B.A. from Queens College and both master’s degrees in accounting and taxation at Pace University Graduate School of Business. In addition to my teaching activities, I have a boutique CPA practice specializing in tax services and business management services for high net worth clients and their businesses and investments. In my classroom I combine the teaching of tax concepts with their practical applications.

Adjunct Lecture
Email: Md.Uddin@qc.cuny.edu

Education:
• Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET)
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering

• University of South Alabama
Master of Accounting

• Harvard Business School
Certificate of Management and Leadership Essentials

Career
• Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
Inspections Specialist- July 2015 to present.
• Deloitte & Touche LLP and KPMG LLP
Senior Audit Manager

Other highlights:
CPA (Certified Public Accountant) & CFE (Certified Fraud Examiner)
KPMG National Instructor & Deloitte Faculty Excellence (DFX) Certified facilitator at local, regional, and national trainings at Deloitte University.
Director of Accounting Policy at AIG.