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Perlman & Perlman currently has seven practicing attorneys. Although we are not large in number, we represent some of the most prestigious and influential charitable institutions in the United States and abroad, and many of the most successful for-profit fundraisers, including direct mail houses, telemarketers and other fundraising professionals. The nature of our practice demands that we understand and advise on a variety of challenging legal issues. We have vast experience in structuring and documenting numerous types of transactions, litigating in federal and state courts, advocating in alternative dispute resolution forums, including mediation and arbitration. Each of our attorneys participates in bar association committee activities where we contribute to the evolution of the law and stay abreast of the cutting edge issues which affect our clients. Most notably, we have a voice on the American Bar Association's Tax Exempt Organization's Committee, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York's Nonprofit Organization's Committee, the Nonprofit Coordinating Committee's Government Relations Committee and the New York County Lawyers' Non-Profit Organizations Committee. In addition, because of our expertise, our attorneys are frequent lecturers and presenters in Continuing Legal Education seminars. All of this enables us to provide invaluable counsel within our fields.

BERNARD PERLMAN (1922-1991) received his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School and was admitted to the New York Bar in 1954. In addition to being the first person in the country to be charged with overseeing charitable activities on behalf of the government, he also lectured and wrote widely on the subject of nonprofit organizations and charitable solicitation laws.

SETH PERLMAN is the senior partner at Perlman & Perlman, LLP. He holds a B.S. from Beloit College and a J.D. from the University of Houston. He is a frequent commentator and lecturer on issues affecting the nonprofit sector. Mr. Perlman has litigated in numerous state and federal jurisdictions on issues relevant to the philanthropic community and is special counsel for the Association of Fundraising Professionals and the Direct Mail Fundraising Association. As lead counsel for The American Charities for Reasonable Fundraising Regulation, he successfully litigated a constitutional suit seeking to overturn the fundraising regulatory scheme in Pinellas County, Florida. He has worked with the Hungarian Government on the formation of its nonprofit sector and has been invited by Congress and State governments to advise them on issues relevant to the philanthropic sector. Mr. Perlman currently holds an International Board position with the INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR MEDICAL ASSISTANCE TO TRAVELERS in Canada, the INTERNATIONALE STICHTING ALZHEIMER ONDERZOEK in The Netherlands, STICHTING voor ALZHEIMER ONDERZOEK in Belgium, ALZHEIMER FORSCHUNG INITIATIVE e.V. in Germany and is the Chairman of the Board of the LIGUE EUROPEENNE CONTRE la MALADIE d’ALZHEIMER in France. Mr. Perlman also serves a General or Special Counsel to numerous nonprofits and business entities involved in philanthropy.

CLIFFORD PERLMAN, a partner at Perlman & Perlman, has been advising nonprofit organizations for more than 15 years. He is a frequent lecturer and has authored articles pertaining to both public charities and private foundations, as well as issues relating to the Internet and relationships between for-profit entities and charities. Mr. Perlman sits on the Board of numerous public charities and private foundations, both domestic and foreign. He holds a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and a J.D. from the City University of New York. He came to the firm after a clerkship writing judicial opinions for the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York. He is an experienced litigator and appellate author. Mr. Perlman has served on the American Bar Association Exempt Organizations Subcommittee, Association of the Bar of the City of New York Committee on Nonprofit Organizations, and the Subcommittee on Disaster Relief Coordination, which was formed to address the issue of donations for victims of the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. He currently sits on the Boards of the American Chai Trust, Gabriel’s Angel Foundation for Cancer Research and the Our Time Theatre Company. He also sits on the Board of three (3) cancer research charities in France and Germany. His clients include large pubic charities, private foundations and Fortune 500 companies (with respect to their dealings with nonprofit organizations).

ALLEN R. BROMBERGER, a partner at Perlman & Perlman, has more than 20 years of experience representing nonprofit organizations, charities, and private foundations in a wide variety of business matters and transactions. A member of Who’s Who in American Law and Who’s Who in America, Mr. Bromberger is the author of Getting Organized and Advising Nonprofits, two widely used books on nonprofit formation and operation. He is also the author of numerous articles on nonprofit legal matters, and is a frequent lecturer and speaker on nonprofit legal issues. Prior to joining Perlman & Perlman, Mr. Bromberger served as president of Power of Attorney, a private operating foundation located in New York City, and before that was executive director of Lawyers Alliance for New York, a public interest law firm devoted exclusively to meeting the legal needs of nonprofit and community development organizations. Mr. Bromberger has served on numerous public and private boards and committees and is currently an advisor to Corporate Counsel magazine. He holds a B.A. from the University of California/Berkeley (1977) and a J.D. from the University of California/ Hastings College of the Law (1982). Mr. Bromberger is admitted to practice in both New York and California.

BARBARA J. NAGEL, Of Counsel at Perlman & Perlman, has been practicing law for over 25 years. For much of that time, Ms. Nagel served on the senior management committee and as general counsel of a $1 billion privately-held group of companies covering more than 15 industries, including real estate and venture capital. Ms. Nagel took a two-year leave from traditional law practice to work in the non-profit sector as executive director of a community development agency and director of development for a nationally recognized film arts organization. She joined Perlman & Perlman in 2008 and advises corporate and non-profit organizations in a variety of transactional and governance matters, including joint ventures and public-private partnerships. Ms. Nagel received a B.A. from the State University of New York College at Cortland and a J.D. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Ms. Nagel is a former president of the National Association of Women Business Owners – New York City, and serves on a number of foundation, non-profit, and advisory boards.

KAREN I. CHANG holds a B.A., cum laude, in Political Science and Linguistics from Wellesley College and a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School, where she served as an Executive Note and Comment Editor for the Journal of Law and Policy. Prior to joining Perlman & Perlman, she served as a law intern with the New York State Attorney General’s Charities Bureau. Ms. Chang is co-author (with Seth Perlman) of articles relating to the regulation of internet fundraising and cause-related marketing, published in the Nonprofit Times.  Ms. Chang is a board member of the New York City chapter of The Christian Legal Society, and is a member of the Asian American Bar Association of New York. Ms. Chang is admitted to the bar in New York and New Jersey.


CATHERINE C. OETGEN earned her B.A. in English from Northwestern University in 1999 and her J.D. from Brooklyn Law School in 2006. She served as a law intern with the New York Attorney General’s Charities Bureau and as a summer associate with Goldman Sachs in 2004 and Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts in 2005. Ms. Oetgen’s recent published articles include “How Much is Too Much? Participation in Political Activities by Nonprofits” (Nonprofit Times, November 2007) and “Conflicting Interests: Practical Tips on What to Do and How to Do It” (Nonprofit Times, November 2008). Ms. Oetgen is also co-author of a chapter on legal issues facing volunteer board members in Governance for Health Care Providers: The Call to Leadership (Productivity Press, December 2008). She is a member of the New York City Bar Association’s Nonprofit Organizations Committee.

JENNIFER HU CORRIGGIO graduated from Cornell University magna cum laude as a College Scholar with a B.A. and focus in political theory and cultural anthropology, and earned both a J.D. and L.L.M. in International and Comparative Law from Duke Law School. Before coming to the firm, Jennifer practiced at the New York law firms Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP and Kornstein Veisz Wexler & Pollard LLP. She also taught as a Visiting Assistant Law Professor at Florida Coastal School of Law. Jennifer is admitted to the Bar in New York and Florida.

 

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