Lutzker & Lutzker attorneys combine extensive professional experience with personal passion to advise nonprofit clients. Nonprofits have the contractual, human resources, intellectual property and other legal issues involved in conducting any business. Additionally, tax-exempt organizations operate within an environment of complex IRS regulations, a multiplicity of state laws governing charitable fundraising and increasingly scrutinized corporate governance, including IRS inquiry into traditional corporate matters. As fiscal constraints challenge nonprofits to become more entrepreneurial, these challenges multiply.
Representative Matters
- Securing, as well as reinstating, tax-exempt status for nonprofit organizations, often including complex issues of financial relationships with insiders, entrepreneurial activities or participation in complex real estate transactions
- Helping nonprofits balance goals of broad public dissemination and protection of proprietary assets
- Advising as to the IP and other provisions of grant agreements
- Helping clients evaluate the desirability of creating a nonprofit organization or a for-profit or nonprofit affiliate of an existing tax-exempt entity
- Advising nonprofit organizations on governance issues and best practices at every stage of the organization’s life cycle