lesleyrosenthal

Good Counsel: Serving the Legal Needs of Nonprofits is a one-of-a-kind guide for attorneys, nonprofit executives, board members, management and law students, and others interested in the legal needs of nonprofit organizations. Loaded with insights and practical details for counsel and clients alike, it is an indispensable guide to running a top-notch legal, compliance and governance function. Included are chapters on how to connect counsel with previously unrepresented organizations; spot and handle the legal issues surrounding new business initiatives that tie into the mission and support the goals of the organization; and improve financial and operational efficiency both departmentally and enterprise-wide. Complete with a department-by-department look at legal matters likely to arise across the whole organization, the book explains how to handle the wide variety of legal topics likely to cross inside counsel’s desk: intellectual property, government relations, real estate, financing, labor & employment, tax, consumer regulatory, corporate governance and more. Good Counsel: Serving the Legal Needs of Nonprofits, by renowned author, speaker and Bar leader Lesley Friedman Rosenthal, the General Counsel of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the world’s leading performing arts center, is the first how-to guidebook ever written by a sitting General Counsel of a major cultural organization, sharing the insights of a seasoned attorney with years of in-house and outside counsel experience.