Gene Takagi

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ABOUT GENE TAKAGI

I\'m a Principal of NEO Law Group and Contributing Publisher of the Nonprofit Law Blog. I currently serve on the board of BoardSource and recently served as a P/T Lecturer at Columbia University and Advisory Board Member of the National Center on Philanthropy and the Law at NYU. I\'ve been published by The New York Times, The Nonprofit Quarterly, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, and The Nonprofit Times and spoken at conferences for Independent Sector, BoardSource, the National Association of State Charity Officials, and the American Bar Association. In the past, I\'ve served as a corporate attorney for an AmLaw 100 firm, professor of nonprofit law at USF and SMU-MN, director of the medical and behavior divisions of the San Francisco SPCA, and management consultant for a billion dollar privately held company. I\'m an alum of UCLA School of Law honored to have received several awards for doing the work I love including the 2016 Outstanding Nonprofit Lawyer from the American Bar Association\'s Nonprofit Organizations Committee. I previously served on the public policy committee and John W. Gardner Leadership Award committee of Independent Sector; the boards of The Nonprofit Quarterly, CompassPoint, Net Impact, JCYC, Barrister Club (BASF), and Community Initiatives; and the planning committee of the Western Conference on Tax Exempt Organizations (WCTEO).My profile and referenced content are intended, but not promised or guaranteed, to be correct, complete and up-to-date. However, the material I have created and/or posted on LinkedIn, including all comments and responses to comments, does not constitute legal or professional advice, and the reader should not consider this information to be an invitation for an attorney-client relationship, should not rely on information provided herein and should always seek the advice of competent counsel in the reader’s state or jurisdiction.