About the Author

• Author: Bruce R. Hopkins
• Profession: Leading authority on the law of tax-exempt organizations
• Pages: 469-470

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Bruce R. Hopkins is a principal in Bruce R. Hopkins Law Firm, LLC in Kansas City,Missouri.

He concentrates on the representation of tax-exempt organizations. His practice ranges over

the entirety of law matters involvingexempt organizations, with empha sis on the formation of

nonprot organizations, acquisit ion of recognition of tax-exempt status for them , governance

and the law, the private inurement and private benet doctrines, the intermediate sanctions

rules, legislative and political campaign activities issues, public charity and private founda-

tion rules, unrelated business planning, use of exemptand for-prot subsidiaries, joint venture

planning, tax shelter involvement, review of annual information returns, Internet communi-

cations developments, the law of charit able giving (including planned giving), an d fundraising

law issues.

Mr. Hopkins served as chair of the Committee on Exempt Organizations, Tax Section,

American Bar Asso ciation; chair, Section of Taxation, National Assoc iation of College and Uni-

versity Attorneys; and president,Planned Giving Study Group of Greater Washington, D.C.

Mr. Hopkinsis the series e ditorof Wiley’s NonprotLaw, Finance, and Management Series.

In addition to compiling the BruceR.Hopkins’NonprotLawDictionary, he is the author of

the Bruce R. Hopkins’ Nonprot Law Library;e Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations, Eleventh

Edition;Planning Guide for the Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations: Strategies and Commen-

taries;Tax-Exempt Organizations and Constitutional Law: Nonprot Law as Shaped by the U.S.

SupremeCourt; IRS Audits of Tax-ExemptOrganizations: Policies, Practices,and Procedures;e

Tax L aw of Charitable G iving, Fih Ed ition;e Tax Law of Associations;e Tax Law of Unre-

lated Business for Nonprot Organizations;eNonprots’GuidetoInternetCommunications

Law;e Law of IntermediateSanctions: A Guide for Nonprots;Starting and Managing a Non-

prot Organization: A Legal Guide,Sixth Edition;Nonprot Law Made Easy;Charitable Giving

Law MadeEasy;P rivate Foundation Law Mad e Easy;Fundraisin g Law Made Easy;650 Essential

Nonprot Law Questions Answered;e First Legal Answer Book for Fund-Raisers;e Second

Bruce R. Hopkins’ Nonprot Law Dictionary, First Edition. Bruce R. Hopkins.

©2015 Bruce R. Hopkins. Published 2015 by John Wiley& S ons,Inc.