The phrase "auditing lawyer" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a lawyer who specializes in auditing or legal compliance, often in the context of financial audits or regulatory reviews.
Example: "The company hired an auditing lawyer to ensure that all financial practices were in compliance with the law."
Alternatives: "compliance attorney" or "audit counsel".
The IRS recently released to IRS agents a guide to auditing lawyers.
The decision by a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, which covers Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana, makes it very likely that the accounting firm, BDO Seidman, will have to give the names to the Internal Revenue Service -- which will then know whose tax returns to audit, lawyers said.
Some lawyers fear that the IRS unfairly targets them since several decades ago the IRS ran "Project Esquire" to audit lawyers.
Craig A. Etter, a tax audit lawyer in Tysons Corner, Va., with the law firm Greenberg Traurig, said that "the primary reason for doing one of these audit technique guides is to get auditors in the field to focus on what the I.R.S. national office thinks is a problem with noncompliance".
An alternative approach would be to force courts to make more use of services that audit lawyers' bills, such as Legal Cost Control and Legalbill.
After a report criticized the lengthy backlog of cases in 1995, New Jersey poured money into the discipline system, adding staff and strengthening a unit that randomly audits lawyers' business accounts.
City officials said they cannot single out buildings with a lot of complaints when auditing certificates because city lawyers told them it could be considered selective enforcement.
Manhattan Lawyer, in an August 1989 article, identified a John Kurkemelis as one of three lawyers audited by the New York City comptroller's office.
Trump said he couldn't release his tax returns because he was being audited and his lawyers wouldn't let him release them.
Few tax returns are actually audited, but tax lawyers must advise clients based on the assumption every tax return will be examined.
