Corporate & Securities Law

Law: Senator sniffs around college endowments...has new bloodhound on payroll
After Dean A. Zerbe resigned his post as senior counsel to Sen. Charles E. Grassley in February, the nonprofit world breathed a collective sigh of relief. The man responsible for the government?s sharpest scrutiny of nonprofit organizations was gone, and...

Anger As Mitigation
An Arizona lawyer was hired as the executive director of a nonprofit corporation, laeving his employment as an assistant county attorney. He represented the nonprofit in a dispute with a general contractor and identified himself as "chief counsel" as well...

WSJ: Consumers Union to Rate Hospitals
Nonprofit Group To Add Its Rankings To Crowded Field, By Anna Wilde Mathews: "The nonprofit Consumers Union is launching a...

Is "I Will Sue You Into Bankruptcy" a Permissible Coda to a "Govern Yourself Accordingly" Letter
Posted by Jeff Lipshaw The Wall Street Journal Law Blog reports that the lawyer for Denver Nuggets Coach George Karl sent a "govern yourself accordingly" letter to a fan running the firegeorgekarl...

Almost Priceless ($10) Guide for Oregon Nonprofit Boards and Directors
Many of you already know about the TACS (hurrah!) Oregon Nonprofit Corporation Handbook.But you may not know that their Chapter 13 (NOT this Chapter 13 ? but Chapter 13 of the TACS Handbook) reprint might just be what the lawyer ordered (or would have if s/he knew what you were up to, or not up to, or took a look at your nonprofit?s bylaws) for nonprofit boards...

AP: Al Sharpton Owes $1.5 Million in Taxes
The Associated Press is reporting that Al Sharpton and his business and nonprofit entities owe nearly $1.5 million in taxes, interest, and penalties: [T]he U.S. attorney is investigating his nonprofit group, a probe that an undeterred Sharpton brushes off as...