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Event in Review: Navigating Internal Investigations at Nonprofits

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An allegation of misconduct or illegality can have very harmful effects for an organization: it can hurt staff morale, violate an organization’s mission, and, in extreme circumstances, can threaten a nonprofit’s exempt...more

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

Update and Discussion on Practical and Legal Issues - NYS Paid Sick Leave, NYC Employment Law Update, New Whistleblower Law,...

Our weekly Business in 2021 series will continue to cover how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we do business as well as other topics relevant in today’s business environment. Our 45-minute webinar provides timely...more

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New York AG's Suit To Dissolve NRA Highlights Critical Reminders for Nonprofit Boards

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New York's Attorney General is suing to dissolve the National Rifle Association (NRA) based upon what the AG alleges are repeated violations of state laws regulating nonprofit corporations. The Attorney General's amended...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

[Webinar] Investigations, Audits, Subpoenas, Oh My! - October 28th, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm PT

Nonprofit entities can be just as prone to misconduct (theft, embezzlement, accounting snafus, executives’ HR violations) as corporations. While there is no foolproof formula to avoid internal crises entirely, knowing...more

Allen Matkins

Is A Breach Of Fiduciary Duty A Violation Of State Law?

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California Labor Code Section 1102.5 protects employees from certain retaliatory acts by their employers.  Subdivision (b) of the statute provides...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

VNSNY Agrees to $57 Million Settlement

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The Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY) has agreed to pay $57 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit that alleged it billed the Medicare and Medicaid programs for hundreds of millions of dollars in home care visits...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Revitalization Act Held to Grant Whistleblower Implied Private Right of Action

On October 24, 2016 the New York Supreme Court, Kings County entered a decision allowing a former employee to proceed with a lawsuit against a not-for-profit, private college preparatory school and its headmaster alleging...more

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

Exempt Organizations: Potential Amendments to the Nonprofit Revitalization Act of 2013 - Summary of Potential Amendments Other...

On June 16, 2016, the New York State Legislature adopted Senate Bill No. S07913B (the "Bill") modifying the Nonprofit Revitalization Act of 2013 (the "NPRA"). The following is a brief summary of the Bill’s provisions that...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

New York Non-Profit Revitalization Act Reforms Governance Rules for Nonprofits

Signed into law in 2013, the New York Non-Profit Revitalization Act is designed to reform the statutory requirements for governance of nonprofit organizations (both not-for-profit corporations and wholly charitable trusts),...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Clarifying Amendments to the Nonprofit Revitalization Act Signed Into Law

On December 11, 2015, Governor Cuomo signed into law Chapter 555 of the Laws of New York of 2015 (Assemb. Bill 8118-B/Sen. Bill 5868-A) making certain “clarifying amendments,” effective immediately,to provisions of the New...more

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Perspectives - July 2015

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Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which...more

McGuireWoods LLP

Can A Law Firm Qualify As An Original Source?

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Although a Federal district court refrained from providing a definitive answer to this question, it appears unlikely given the court’s holding and reasoning in United States v. U.S. Bank, N.A., No. 3:13-cv-704, 2015 WL...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Eighth Circuit Reminds Nonprofits They Are Subject to Whistleblower Laws

Nonprofits help shape, empower, and strengthen many underserved communities with the aid of donors who believe and trust in the organization’s mission. These goodhearted missions come with accountability to both donors and...more

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Pennsylvania Expands Whistleblower Law to Cover Some Private Employers, Nonprofits

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Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett gave final approval to two bills that drastically expand the scope and enforcement provisions of the Pennsylvania Whistleblower Law. Under the amendments, which take effect on August 31,...more

Holland & Knight LLP

The New York Non-Profit Revitalization Act of 2013

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Governor Cuomo signed New York's Non-Profit Revitalization Act of 2013 into law in December. Most of its provisions take effect July 1, 2014. The new law, which was designed to stimulate New York's not-for-profit industry,...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

New York’s Non-Profit Revitalization Act

The New York Non-Profit Revitalization Act of 2013 (the “Act”) was signed into law December 18, 2013, and the bulk of its provisions will take effect July 1, 2014. As we reported in our previous alert on the subject, the...more

BakerHostetler

Best Practices for Charitable Organizations: New York Overhauls Nonprofit Corporation Law

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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo recently signed into law the Non-profit Revitalization Act of 2013. The provisions of the Act are generally effective on July 1, 2014. The Act will require nonprofit corporations governed...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

"Exempt and Nonprofit Organizations Alert: New York Non-Profit Revitalization Act"

The Non-Profit Revitalization Act of 2013 (the Act) (S5845/A8072), which effects the first major overhaul of the New York Not-for-Profit Corporation Law (the NPCL) in four decades, will be signed into law by New York Governor...more

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