Good Counsel Meeting the Legal Needs of Nonprofits 1st Edition by Lesley Rosenthal ISBN 1118222792 9781118222799

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ISBN 10: 1118222792

ISBN 13: 9781118222799

Author: Lesley Rosenthal 

Good Counsel: Meeting the Legal Needs of Nonprofits 1st Edition: A concise overview of the legal needs of nonprofit organizations

Good Counsel is a compact and personable overview of the legal needs of nonprofits, crafted by one of America’s most astute nonprofit general counsels. The book distills the legal needs of the 1.8 million tax-exempt organizations in the United States.Written in a clear and accessible style, with plenty of humor and storytelling as well as illustrative case studies, Good Counsel explains the basics of nonprofit corporate law, governance, and the tax exemption. It then takes a department-by-department look at legal topics relevant to program, fundraising, finance, communications, human resources, operations, contracts, government relations, and more. Good Counsel is designed help organizations fulfill their missions to do the public good.

Designed to impart confidence and demystify the issues, Good Counsel is a must-read for nonprofit professionals and board members as well as lawyers and law students. Using Good Counsel as their playbook, lawyers, executives, and trustees can get an overview of the most common legal, governance, and compliance issues facing their organization and together ramp up a top-notch legal function.

• Contains practice pointers, checklists, and assessment tools
• Features sample contracts, licenses, and other form documents
• Filled with case studies and end-of-chapter focus questions, as well as available lesson plans for easy classroom use by educators in business, management, public policy, and law schools

Good Counsel is the first-of-its-kind guidebook written by the sitting General Counsel of a major nonprofit. Written by influential author, speaker, and Bar leader Lesley Rosenthal, the General Counsel of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Good Counsel shares the insights of a Harvard Law School graduate with years of in-house and business law experience as well as board service.

 

Good Counsel: Meeting the Legal Needs of Nonprofits 1st Edition Table of contents:

• Part I: An Overview of Nonprofits’ Legal Needs

  • What good counsel can do for nonprofits
  • Nonprofit legal basics: Corporate law and the requirements of the tax exemption
  • Good counsel about corporate governance

• Part II: A Grand Tour of Nonprofits’ Business Law Needs

  • Contracts and intellectual property: Laws that matter to program staff
  • Counseling the rainmakers: Legal aspects of raising money
  • Laws that matter to the finance department
  • Getting personnel: Human resources law for nonprofits
  • Getting the word out, legally: Counseling the nonprofit communications team
  • Legal meets operations, facilities management, and security
  • Political activities and governmental lobbying

• Part III: For Good Counsel Only

  • Taking charge of the legal function
  • Finding your dream job as in-house counsel at a nonprofit
  • Mobilizing other legal forces for the good

 

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