Team Members
Meet the Attorneys Behind the Strategy
- Recognized by Super Lawyers, 2018 – 2024 (Southern California)
- Fellow, American College of Tax Counsel
- Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Taxation, Boston University School of Law
- Juris Doctor (J.D.), Vermont Law School
Editor-in-Chief, Vermont Law Review - Bachelor of Arts, Political Science, Tufts University
- California
- Massachusetts (inactive)
- American Bar Association, Taxation Section
- California Lawyers Association, Taxation Section
- Los Angeles County Bar Association, Taxation Section
- Beverly Hills Bar Association, Taxation Law Section
Lydia is a partner with Nardiello Turanchik Tompkins LLP. Lydia started her career as a trial attorney with the United States Department of Justice, Tax Division, in Washington, D.C. After seven years with the government, Lydia has been in private practice as an associate and then partner at a prominent boutique tax controversy firm before forming Nardiello Turanchik LLP with Chad Nardiello in early 2020.
Lydia handles litigation and tax controversy matters against the United States Department of Justice, the Internal Revenue Service, the California state taxing authorities (including the Franchise Tax Board, the Board of Equalization, the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration, the California Office of Tax Appeals, and the Employment Development Division) and the L.A. City Office of Finance. She has handled tax disputes at all levels, including audit, appeal, settlement, litigation and collection. She is admitted to practice in California and Massachusetts and is a member of the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the U.S. District Court for the Central and Eastern Districts of California, and the United States Tax Court.
Lydia received an LL.M. in taxation from Boston University, a J.D. from Vermont Law School, where she was editor-in-chief of the Vermont Law Review, and a B.A. from Tufts University in political science. Lydia presents on tax controversy matters for the American Bar Association, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the California Lawyers Association, the Beverly Hills Bar Association, the Los Angeles County Bar Association, the Pasadena Bar Association, the San Fernando Bar Association, the CalCPA Education Foundation, and various CalCPA discussion groups.
- ABA Criminal Tax Fraud/ Tax Controversy Conference – Ethics Issues Presented by Conflicts of Interest in Tax Cases: Caution Is the Watchword (December 2022)
- 2022 Annual Meeting of the California Tax Bar and Tax Policy Conference – Countdown of the Greatest and Latest Income Tax Hot Topics (November 2022)
- CalCPA International Tax Conference – Delinquent Foreign Disclosure Issues (October 2022)
- USC Tax Institute – IRS Promoter Investigations: Both Sides of the Table (January 2022) (virtual)
- CalCPA Tax Trek: Advanced Tax Conference – A-Z of IRS Enforcement Procedures (November 2021) (virtual)
- UCLA Tax Controversy Institute – In Search of Virtual Currency (October 2021) (virtual)
- CalCPA Education Foundation – Practice & Procedure for California CPAs (August 2021) (virtual)
- AICPA National Conference – Working with the IRM: a Valuable Resource (November 2020) (virtual)
- CalCPA Tax Trek: Advanced Tax Conference – Preparers: The Unspeakable F Word (November 2020) (virtual)
- UCLA Tax Controversy Institute – Handling Your Tax Court Matter in the Covid-19 Environment (October 2020) (virtual)
- CalCPA Universal Tax Conference – Key Partnership Audit Issues (Universal City, CA November 2019)
- AICPA National Conference – Foreign Disclosure Issues and Addressing Past Non-Compliance (Washington, DC, November 2019)
- CalCPA Education Foundation – Practice & Procedure for California CPAs (Monterey, CA October 2019)
- Cal CPA Education Foundation – BBA Partnership Audit Regime: It’s Here (San Francisco, CA, August 2019)
- CalCPA Education Foundation – Practice and Procedure for California CPAs (San Francisco, CA, August 2019)
- Westside Business Manager Roundtable – Foreign Disclosure Issues and Bitcoin Reporting (Los Angeles, CA, March 2019)
- CalCPA Tax Conference – Protecting a Client’s Privilege Claim – Client Illegal Acts and CPA’s Duties (Los Angeles, CA, November 2018)
- AICPA National Conference – Foreign Disclosure Issues: Fixing the Past and Getting It Right for the Future (Washington, DC, November 2018)
- AICPA National Conference – Partnership Audit Regime: It’s Here (Washington, DC, November 2018)
- Pasadena Bar Association – International Tax Enforcement and Compliance (Pasadena, CA, September 2018)
- NCPACA Convention (National Council of Philippine-American-Canadian Accountants) – International Tax Enforcement and Compliance (Anaheim, CA, September 2018)
- CalCPA Education Foundation – New Partnership Audit Rules (San Francisco, CA, July 2018)
- CalCPA Education Foundation – Practice and Procedure for California CPAs (San Francisco, CA July 2018)
- Philippino-American Society of CPAs – International Tax Enforcement and Compliance (Glendale, CA, June 2018)
- CalCPA Education Foundation – New Partnership Audit Rules (Los Angeles, CA, November 2017)
- AICPA – Understanding IRS Statutes of Limitation, Claim of Right and Mitigation Provisions (Washington, D.C., November 2017)
- AICPA – Foreign Asset Reporting and Enforcement in Today’s World (Washington, D.C., November 2017)
- CalCPA Education Foundation – Practice and Procedure for California CPAs (San Mateo October 2017)
- San Fernando Bar Association – Understanding Statutes of Limitation, Claim of Right and Mitigation Provisions (October 2017)
- CalCPA Education Foundation – Practice and Procedure for California CPAs (San Mateo, CA, January 2017)
- CalCPA Education Foundation – Practice and Procedure for California CPAs (N. Orange County, CA, November 2016)
- Chinese American CPA Society – Streamlined Foreign Offshore Procedures (Arcadia, CA, October 2016)
- CalCPA LA/Beverly Hills Discussion Group – Streamlined Foreign Offshore Procedures (September 2016)
- CalCPA Santa Clarita Discussion Group – Streamlined Foreign Offshore Procedures (September 2016)
- CalCPA San Fernando Valley Discussion Group – Current Status of Foreign Disclosures (August 2016)
- Philippine American Society of CPAs – Foreign Disclosure Issues and Foreign Investment in the United States (Los Angeles, CA, July 2016)
- CalCPA Education Foundation – Practice and Procedure for California CPAs (San Francisco, CA, January 2016)
- CalCPA Education Foundation – Practice and Procedure for California CPAs (Los Angeles, CA, November 2015)
- CalCPA Education Foundation – Practice and Procedure for California CPAs (San Luis Obispo, CA, October 2015)
- Loyola Law School – Guest Lecturer on FATCA and FBAR Compliance (Los Angeles, CA, September 2014)
- California State Bar Association (Taxation Section) – Panel Discussion on the Newly Modified Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program and Streamlined Procedures (Orange, CA, June 2014)
- CalCPA Education Foundation – Foreign Information Returns and the IRS Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program (Los Angeles, CA, June 2014)
- San Fernando Valley Bar Association – IRS Reporting and Disclosure Requirements for Foreign Assets (May 2013)
- Presentation to Private Wealth Management Advisors on Recent Trends in Tax Controversy Matters (Los Angeles, CA, March 2013)
- Beverly Hills Bar Association (Tax Section) – Tax Court Practice, Procedure and Strategy (February 2013)
- L.A. County Bar Association 2013 Tax Night – Appeals – Alternative Dispute Resolution Options (Los Angeles, CA, January 2013)
- CalCPA Farmers Tax and Accounting Conference – IRS and FTB Audits and Appeals – Trends and Strategies (Fresno, CA, September 2012)
