RICHARD I. MILLER
General Counsel and Secretary
Richard I. Miller is General Counsel and Secretary at the American Institute
of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). In this position, Miller is responsible
for providing legal counsel on all AICPA-related professional and corporate
issues.
Prior to joining the Institute, Miller was senior in-house legal counsel
for the international accounting and consulting firm of KPMG Peat Marwick.
Prior to that, he served as general counsel and chief legal officer of
the international accounting and consulting firm of KMG Main Hurdman (which
merged into KPMG Peat Marwick).
Miller began his career defending accountants' liability cases as an
associate at the New York law firm of Cahill Gordon & Reindel. Miller
is a frequent speaker on issues involving accountants' liability matters.
He wrote, a chapter of the book, Accountants' Liability: The Need for
Fairness entitled Alternative Forms of Organization: Guidelines For
CPAs, a chapter of the book Multidisciplinary Practices and Partnerships:
Lawyers, Consultants and Clients entitled A Few Lessons From the Accounting
Profession, co-authored a monograph entitled The SEC's Revised Auditor
Independence Rules: What Happened, Why and What Does it Mean?, co-authorized
an article appearing in Fordham Law Review entitled, Financial Reporting
and Risk Management in the 21 st Century and co-authored an article in
the Journal of Accountancy entitled Regulations Under the Sarbanes-Oxley
Act. He has also been ranked by Accounting Today as one of
their Top 100 Most Influential People.
Miller is a cum laude graduate of the Fordham University School
of Law in June of 1972, and a member of its Law Review.
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