Nonprofit Governance: Safeguard against Fraud, Theft, Embezzlement and Asset Diversion

Pamela A. Mann is a partner in the firm of Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP and the Chair of its Tax-Exempt Organizations practice group. Her practice is concentrated in the representation of tax-exempt organization, and she is counsel to numerous public charities and private foundations and advises its clients in a wide range of governance, regulatory, tax, and general corporate matters. From 1985 to 1995, Ms. Mann was Chief of the Charities Bureau in the New York Attorney General’s office, directing scores of important cases and initiatives and influencing the adoption of significant legislative changes affecting tax exempt organizations. Her diverse background includes clinical teaching at Rutgers University School of Law’s Constitutional Litigation Clinic and the litigation of employment discrimination and other employment related matters at the National Employment Law Project. She has written many articles for professional and lay publications and is a frequent lecturer on non-profit issues.

Ms. Mann has been recognized in New York Magazine’s Best Lawyers in New York  and in Super-Lawyers Magazine in the category of lawyers specializing in Nonprofit/Charities Law. Ms. Mann was Chair of the Committee on Nonprofit Organizations of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York from 1998-2001 and has served as President and Vice-President of the National Association of State Charities Officials. She is a member of the American Law Institute, the American Bar Fellows, the Government Relations Committee of the Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York and of the Exempt Organizations Committee of the American Bar Association. She is a graduate of Oberlin College and the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. For additional information, see https://www.clm.com/attorney/mann_pamela. 

Sarah Hewitt is a partner at Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP and chair of the Corporate and Finance Practice Group. She represents public and private companies, including emerging companies, family businesses, women and minority-owned businesses and nonprofit corporations, in the areas of corporate and securities law, private equity and venture capital financing, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and general corporate counseling. Ms. Hewitt has served on a number of non-profit boards and chaired their audit, finance, investment and nominating & corporate governance committees.