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Barbara Rosen practices law in San
Francisco where she advises company foundations, private
foundations, public charities, and their donors. Ms. Rosen's
practice includes planning and forming new charities,
counseling existing charities and business leagues on
corporate governance and tax matters, handling IRS audits,
advising charities on compliance with state charity law
requirements, reviewing tax filings, and handling corporate
dissolutions. Before forming the Evans & Rosen law
firm, Ms. Rosen practiced nonprofit corporate and tax
law with the firm of Silk, Adler & Colvin in San Francisco
for nearly five years, where she counseled charities and
business leagues, and resolved IRS disputes. Before becoming
an attorney, Ms. Rosen practiced as a corporate tax accountant
at a regional CPA firm, where she specialized in corporate
and tax-exempt organizations' tax issues, advising private
foundations, public charities, and business leagues in
resolving complex tax planning and compliance issues.
Ms. Rosen is an adjunct professor at UC Hastings College of the Law, teaching "Nonprofit Law," at Golden Gate University, teaching "Exempt Organizations" in the LL.M. program, and has been a member of the adjunct faculty at the University
of San Francisco's College of Professional Studies, teaching "Legal Issues Affecting Nonprofit Organizations." She has
co-authored several articles on subjects such as disaster relief, group exemptions, and the treatment of pledge workouts under IRC Section 4958.
Ms. Rosen received her J.D. in 2000 from University of
California Hastings College of the Law, where she served
as senior editor of the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly.
While at Hastings, she worked with Professor Stephen Schwarz
on the second edition of Nonprofit Organizations, Cases
and Materials, a casebook which is used in law schools
throughout the country. Ms. Rosen received her B.A. from
Indiana University and holds an M.S. in Taxation from
Golden Gate University. She has been a licensed California
CPA since 1983.
Ms. Rosen is admitted to practice by the California Bar
and is a past Vice Chair of the Executive Committee
of the State Bar of California's Taxation Section. She
is Chair and Past-Chair of the Tax-Exempt
Organizations Committee of the Taxation Section, and is
a member of the American Bar Association's Tax and Business
Sections, the Northern California Planned Giving Council, the San Francisco subcommittee of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund, and the Valley Council of Advisors of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
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