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Fred Burry, IRS chief counsel official, outlines Chief Counsel Scholars program as an "internal LLM"
Summary
Fred Burry, special counsel and director of the Internal Revenue Service Chief Counsel Scholars Program, described the programits technical tax curriculum, certificate option and career benefitsin a recorded presentation. He said the program accelerates careers inside and outside the agency; details on enrollment and credit transfer were not specified.
Fred Burry, special counsel and director of the Chief Counsel Scholars Program at the Internal Revenue Service, described the programits curriculum, certificate and career outcomesin remarks captured in the transcript.
Burry said the program offers a sequence of technical training courses "like an internal LLM program," covering topics such as international tax principles, consolidated returns, employment taxes, tax treaties, partnership tax and financial accounting concepts that relate to book income and the Internal Revenue Code. He said participants can earn a certificate and expressed hope that course credits could again transfer to external LLM programs.
Burry said he has worked in the Office of Chief Counsel for about 10 years and that this was his second tour with the office. He recounted prior roles including time as legislative counsel for the Internal Revenue Service on Capitol Hill, service as a partner in a large international accounting firm and work at the Justice Department as a deputy assistant attorney general.
"It's like an internal LLM program," Burry said, describing the program's technical tax courses. He also said he is the lead instructor for the program and named a range of training offerings: trial training, legal writing, legal ethics and financial accounting concepts intended to support tax practice inside the agency.
Burry framed the program as career-accelerating: "you get experience here that you're not gonna get anywhere else," he said, adding that alumni often move to outside employers who value the experience gained while at the Office of Chief Counsel. He noted that some alumni leave the agency but that their outside employers appreciate the training.
The transcript does not record any formal decisions, enrollment procedures, tuition costs or an explicit timeline for re-establishing credit transfers to external LLM programs. No vote or formal action was recorded in the remarks.
Details on how to apply, class schedules, or the precise mechanics of certificate-to-LLM credit transfer were not specified in the transcript.
