Who We Help
Associations & Credentialing Organizations
Org Law advises associations, professional societies, credentialing bodies, and standards organizations on governance, contracts, technology, credentialing, antitrust-sensitive activity, executive matters, transactions, and organizational compliance.
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how you operate.
Board authority, member relationships, standards, credentialing, antitrust, tax-exempt status, data, and commercial operations often intersect in the same decision.
When leaders call
The organization is making an important decision.
Programs and relationships are evolving.
Leaders need perspective on risk or change.
Boards, bylaws, committees, and executive authority
Advise on governing documents, fiduciary duties, board and committee powers, officer authority, conflicts, compensation processes, meetings, minutes, and resolutions.
Tax-exempt status, UBIT, and lobbying limits
Advise on exemption classification, Form 990 and governance disclosures, unrelated business income, sponsorship and royalty structuring, lobbying and political activity limits, private inurement, and excess benefit exposure.
Credentialing, certification, and accreditation
Support eligibility rules, examinations, accommodations, security, discipline, appeals, accreditation, vendor agreements, program governance, and certification marks.
Antitrust-sensitive member and standards activity
Advise on competitor collaboration, standards development, surveys, benchmarking, meetings, committees, codes of ethics, information exchange, and membership admission and expulsion.
Chapters, affiliates, foundations, and related entities
Draft charters, affiliation and shared-service agreements, brand and data terms, governance provisions, financial arrangements, separation terms, and related documents.
Commercial, technology, data, and intellectual property
Negotiate platforms, conferences, sponsorships, publications, licensing, data use, AI, outsourcing, vendors, content, trademarks, and digital relationships.
CEO agreements and executive oversight
Draft and negotiate executive employment and severance terms, compensation review and approval processes, succession planning, performance and evaluation frameworks, transition agreements, and board oversight of the executive relationship.
Combinations, investigations, and organizational change
Support mergers, affiliations, joint ventures, dissolutions, investigations, diligence, approvals, agreements, and implementation.