Team

gary bluesteinGary Bluestein, focuses his practice exclusively on tax representation.  Prior to entering private practice, Gary served as a Senior Attorney for the Internal Revenue Service and was a Special Assistant United State’s Attorney.  Gary was hired by the Department of Treasury through the Government’s Honors Program.  During his Government Service, Gary represented the IRS in both the United States Tax Court Tax and the United States Bankruptcy Court.  He also served on several National Task Forces addressing IRS enforcement issues and received numerous Government Merit Awards for his work related thereto.

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Deborah MuhlbauerDeborah J. Muhlbauer, limits her practice exclusively to the areas of federal and state tax representation and estate planning and administration. She is a member of the Erie County Bar Association’s Tax Committee and serves on the Planning Committee for the Institute on Taxation.  She is also an Adjunct Professor of tax practice and procedure at the University at Buffalo Law School. Deborah served as President, Treasurer, and State Director of the Western New York Chapter of the WBASNY, and a past Co-chair of the Chapter’s Work Related Issues Committee. She is also a past Chair of the Subcommittee on Women in the Profession of the New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Women in the Law.

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William WinspearWilliam Winspear was employed by the Internal Revenue Service as a revenue officer from 1991 to 2007. During that period, he worked in the IRS’ Collection and Small Business & Self-Employed Divisions.  

For the first eight years of his IRS career his primary duties were working field collection cases and during the second eight years of his career his primary duties were working on bankruptcy cases. In 2007 he left the IRS and became and Enrolled Agent, which is a tax professional, licensed to practice before the IRS.  Additionally, in 2007 he attended law school. He graduated from the State University of Buffalo School of Law in March of 2010, Magna Cum Laude.

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