Follow by Email Feedburner Email Notice Service Being Discontinued (5/10/21)

Some DOJ Tax Alumni have signed up for and have been receiving email notifications of new blog entries via a service called Feedburner through the “Follow by Email” widget that formerly was in the right hand column on this blog.  The Feedburner service is being discontinued in July 2021.  I am therefore eliminating that widget so that Follow by Email will not longer be available for new  subscribers for that service and,  I suppose, the Follow by Email service will stop working in July 2021 for persons who were already registered.

There are other services that, I understand, can provide similar functionality, but I just have not spent the time to try to figure out how they work and how to implement them on the blog site.  If and when I figure that out, I provide a replacement for the "Follow by Email" functionality.

I have downloaded the email addresses of those who were registered as of today.  So, if I get a substitute service for this functionality, I will email those persons with notice so that they can register.

Mike Desmond Joins Gibson Dunn (5/7/21)

Gibson Dunn has announced here that Mike Desmond joined the firm as a partner.  Mike was most immediately the IRS Chief Counsel, but earlier in his career had been a DOJ Tax trial attorney, according to the press release, from 1995 to 2000.  There is no indication as to the section or sections in DOJ Tax in which he served.