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The Lesson Plan is Out from Behind the Headlines – Lessons from the Resolution of the Trump Foundation Suit

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 […]

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Charities Bureau Heads Publish Survey of Charitable Registration Requirements Across All 50 States

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 […]

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My U.S. Based Synagogue Can’t Find An IRS 501(c)(3) Exemption Recognition Letter, What Can We Do?

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 […]

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Don’t Let the Headlines Hide the Lessons for Your Boards, Part II

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 […]

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Don’t Let the Headlines Hide the Lessons for Your Boards, Part I

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. […]

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TRUMPCARE – Where to Now?

On March 24, 2017, the Speaker of the Republican led House of Representatives, serving with a Republican President and Senate, pulled legislation to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care of 2010, a/k/a, Obamacare or the “Affordable Care Act”, when he could not unify his Republican caucus behind a proposal, and two step process, designed […]

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An Uncertain Future: Examining Two Proposals for Health Care Reform

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 […]

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Three Years Into the Non-Profit Revitalization Act of 2013: Expectations of, and Challenges Confronting, Not-for-Profit Boards

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 […]

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The importance of “KISSING” with your board

We all like to think we and our clients are smart, brilliant people capable of understanding and acting upon the complexities of the issues they confront and lawyers advise upon. But “Keep it Simple St$C*#” or “KISS” is a motto well worth remembering when advising or serving on non-profit boards of directors. Advising boards about […]

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Will HIPAA survive texting?

A recent article in the New Yorker by Alice Gregory (“R U There? A new counseling service harnesses the power of the text message”, February 9, 2015) makes one wonder whether all of the hours, days and years that federal regulators, privacy advocates, and healthcare attorneys spent agonizing over the confidentiality of information (particularly healthcare […]

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