Published in AHLA PG Briefing, July 9, 2020 This Alert is brought to you by AHLA’s Business Law and Governance Practice Group. Good, effective governance sets the mission and direction for an organization, but may change direction in times of severe stress. It oversees operations and looks to the future, identifying opportunities and risks (including […]

Published on the AHLA website, June 3, 2020 This Bulletin is brought to you by AHLA’s Business Law and Governance Practice Group. The National Association of State Charity Officials (NASCO) is an association of the state attorneys general, sercretaries of state, and other offices that regulate and oversee charitable organizations and charitable solicitation within theirindividual […]

Published on the USCJ website May 21, 2020 As active members of our synagogues and communities, and as individuals committed to Tikkun Olam, we regularly give Tzedaka. When we give to charities in the United States and they acknowledge receipt of our donation in writing, we get federal, state and local tax deductions that allow […]

Published in AHLA PG Alert, May 16, 2019 This Alert is brought to you by AHLA’s Business Law and Governance Practice Group. Attorneys advising nonprofit boards should continue to monitor the New York State Attorney General’s case against the Trump Foundation and the Trump family members for important guidance. Specifically, on November 23, 2018, New […]

Published in AHLA PG Alert, July 18, 2018 This Alert is brought to you by AHLA’s Business Law and Governance Practice Group. Important lessons for nonprofit boards and their board members were hidden behind press headlines on June 14, 2018 when the New York State Attorney General Barbara Underwood filed suit against the Donald J. […]

Published in AHLA Connections, Vol. 21, Issue 3 Co-Authors: Gregory Smith, Esq., and Hayden Wool, Esq. Not even seven years has elapsed since the adoption of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA, colloquially known as “Obamacare”), and the implementation of the associated regulations that trig-gered numerous changes for insurers, providers, and patients across […]

Published in the NYSBA Health Law Journal, Vol. 21, No. 3 1. Introduction On December 18, 2013 New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law the Nonprofit Revitalization Act of 2013 (“NPRA”).1 By adopting NPRA, the legislature sought to modernize New York’s Not-for-Profit Corpo-ration Law (the “NPCL”) and strengthen the New York not-for-profit sector by […]