A pre-recorded streaming VIDEO replay of the May 2023 webcast, Typical Legal Issues Facing Non-profit Businesses.
Topics Covered
- Over 90,000 new non-profit organizations are created in the U.S. each year.
- Organizations have special legal requirements, and the members of their boards of directors who perform their duties properly should be protected from liability.
- Non-profits need legal advice to file their forms properly with the IRS as well as state and local governments, and guide their activities and operations to protect their valuable nonprofit status.
- In our litigious society, more and more non-profits are being sued. Excellent legal advice for non-profits can prevent many future legal problems and avoid costly, and possibly organization-ending, litigation.
- Review current litigation involving non-profits.
- Discover how to expand and improve your legal practice through helping clients properly form non-profits and representing non-profits throughout their existence.
Taught by Herb Rubenstein, a member of the VA, MD, and DC bars since 1983, this seminar will cover a broad range of legal issues faced by non-profits today. Many types of non-profit organizations are recognized by the IRS, and while every non-profit must adhere to certain core legal requirements, each separate type of non-profit also has separate rules governing their specific operations.
Special rules apply to non-profit board members that must be diligently observed to ensure the board members serve the organization properly and that they are protected from liability. Competent legal advice is necessary at all stages of the existence of the non-profit including formation to protect the non-profit and avoid legal problems.
In addition, viewers learn the ways legal counsel can help non-profit organizations not only assess legal risk, but also work cooperatively with for-profit and other non-profit entities to grow their organization. Non-profits often also have significant intellectual property, cybersecurity, employment, contract, and other legal issues that legal counsel will have to identify for the officers and board members in a timely manner. Non-profits that operate or raise money in more than one state also have special legal requirements to stay compliant with the law.
This course also covers law practice management approaches so lawyers and law firms can serve non-profits efficiently and economically, and various fee arrangements that lawyers can use to be properly compensated over time from non-profit clients that often do not have large budgets for legal work.