Membership-based professional associations and business leagues have many legal issues to consider.

We help professional societies, trade groups, chambers of commerce, real estate boards, and business leagues with their day-to-day legal issues, from corporate governance to tax matters.  We help with

• Start-up of new 501(c)(6) trade associations and business leagues, from state formation to federal tax-exemption
• Employee and Human Resource matters – hiring/termination, retention, and agreements for staff
• Governing documents – review and update bylaws, conflict of interest policies
• Agreements between 501(c)(6) professional association and affiliated 501(c)(3) charity, including office sharing and staff sharing arrangements
• Manage relationships between affiliated membership group, charity, and/or PAC
• Draft and manage vendor and convention contracts
• Board Training
• Lobbying issues
• Membership voting on business association decisions
• Conducting for-profit business activity
• Liability and risk management
• Setting up affiliated 501(c)(3) foundations that can support the work of the 501(c)(6) business league
• Governance matters – members vs. board vs. staff