For the month of March, I am going to use my Link of the Day feature to highlight legal blogs that I think are interesting and useful. Some may not be directly related to personal injury or Social Security disability law, but all of us who represent injured and disabled people occasionally need help in other areas. Today’s entry in March of the Blogs:
San Francisco-Bay Area attorney Gene Takagi has a legal practice focused on nonprofit law and on providing first-rate customer service to public charities, private foundations, and other nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations. He writes the Nonprofit Law Blog — Information to Empower and Protect California Nonprofits.
The Law Office of Gene Takagi serves nonprofit organizations by providing:
- Legal counsel in the areas of nonprofit law, including:
- California nonprofit corporation law.
- Federal tax law.
- California tax law.
- Strategies to facilitate greater board participation and minimize the organizational leaders’ exposure to liability.
- Document preparation and review services, including:
- Articles of incorporation.
- Bylaws.
- Federal and state tax-exemption application.
- Various contracts and legal agreements.
- Merger and acquisition documents.
- Dissolution documents.
- Seminars and workshops on various nonprofit law topics, including:
- Starting a nonprofit organization.
- Fiscal sponsorship.
- Obtaining tax-exemption.
- Public charity vs. private foundation status.
- Nonprofit corporate governance (board duties and responsibilities).
- Insider transactions and conflicts of interest.
- Executive compensation and intermediate sanctions.
- Financial and investment management.
- Areas of liability and risk management.
- Advocacy and lobbying.
- Earned income strategies.
- Grantmaking.
- International philanthropy.
- Unrelated business activities.
- Organizational structuring: the use of subsidiaries and affiliates.
- Joint ventures.
- Charitable solicitation laws.
- Charitable giving – a donor’s perspective.
- Planned giving vehicles, including charitable remainder trusts, charitable lead trusts, and charitable gift annuities.
