BRUCE R. HOPKINS is the principal in the Bruce R. Hopkins Law Firm, LLC, Kansas City, Missouri. He concentrates in his practice on the representation of private foundations and other categories of tax-exempt organizations. His practice ranges over the entirety of law matters involving exempt organizations, with emphasis on the formation of nonprofit organizations, acquisition of recognition of tax-exempt status for them, the private inurement and private benefit doctrines, governance, the intermediate sanctions rules, legislative and political campaign activities issues, public charity and private foundation rules, unrelated business planning, use of exempt and for-profit subsidiaries, joint venture planning, tax shelter involvement, review of annual information returns, Internet communications developments, the law of charitable giving, and fundraising law issues.

Mr. Hopkins served as Chair of the Committee on Exempt Organizations, Tax Section, American Bar Association; Chair, Section of Taxation, National Association of College and University Attorneys; and President, Planned Giving Study Group of Greater Washington, D.C.

Mr. Hopkins is the series editor of Wiley's Nonprofit Law, Finance, and Management Series. In addition to being co-author of The Tax Law of Private Foundations, Fifth Edition, he is the author of The Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations, Eleventh Edition; The Planning Guide for the Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations: Strategies and Commentaries; Bruce R. Hopkins' Nonprofit Law Library (e-book); Tax-Exempt Organizations and Constitutional Law: Nonprofit Law as Shaped by the U.S. Supreme Court; Bruce R. Hopkins' Nonprofit Law Dictionary; IRS Audits of Tax-Exempt Organizations: Policies, Practices, and Procedures; The Tax Law of Charitable Giving, Fifth Edition; The Tax Law of Associations; The Tax Law of Unrelated Business for Nonprofit Organizations; The Nonprofits' Guide to Internet Communications Law; The Law of Intermediate Sanctions: A Guide for Nonprofits; Starting and Managing a Nonprofit Organization: A Legal Guide, Sixth Edition; Nonprofit Law Made Easy; Charitable Giving Law Made Easy; Private Foundation Law Made Easy; 650 Essential Nonprofit Law Questions Answered; The First Legal Answer Book for Fund-Raisers; The Second Legal Answer Book for Fund-Raisers; The Legal Answer Book for Nonprofit Organizations; and The Second Legal Answer Book for Nonprofit Organizations. He is the co-author, with Thomas K. Hyatt, of The Law of Tax-Exempt Healthcare Organizations, Fourth Edition; with Alicia M. Beck, of The Law of Fundraising, Fifth Edition; with David O. Middlebrook, of Nonprofit Law for Religious Organizations: Essential Questions & Answers; with Douglas K. Anning, Virginia C. Gross, and Thomas J. Schenkelberg, of The New Form 990: Law, Policy and Preparation; also with Ms. Gross, of Nonprofit Governance: Law, Practices & Trends; and with Ms. Gross and Mr. Schenkelberg, of Nonprofit Law for Colleges and Universities: Essential Questions and Answers for Officers, Directors, and Advisors. He also writes Bruce R. Hopkins' Nonprofit Counsel, a monthly newsletter, published by John Wiley & Sons.

Mr. Hopkins maintains a website providing information about the law of tax-exempt organizations, at www.brucerhopkinslaw.com (click on nonprofit law center). Material posted on this site includes a current developments outline concerning this aspect of the law, discussions of his books, and various indexes for his newsletter.

Mr. Hopkins received the 2007 Outstanding Nonprofit Lawyer Award (Vanguard Lifetime Achievement Award) from the American Bar Association, Section of Business Law, Committee on Nonprofit Corporations. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America, Nonprofit Organizations/Charities Law.

Mr. Hopkins is the Professor from Practice at the University of Kansas School of Law, where he teaches courses on the law of tax-exempt organizations.

Mr. Hopkins earned his JD and LLM degrees at the George Washington University, his SJD at the University of Kansas, and his BA at the University of Michigan. He is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia and the state of Missouri.