McGuireWoods
Tax Group Non-Profit Counsel
Richmond, VA
Oct 26, 2024
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McGuireWoods LLP is seeking a candidate for a counsel position to support its tax-exempt organization practice.  The candidate may sit in one of the following offices: Charlotte, Charlottesville, Chicago, Richmond, Tysons or Washington, D.C.


A diversely skilled group, we provide a range of legal and financial assistance for our business and high-net-worth clients: business tax, employee benefits and executive compensation, and private wealth services. Key partners on our team draw from experience they gained as stakeholders and government officials who helped to shape the very laws, policies and enforcement measures we navigate daily on behalf of our clients. We represent individuals, corporations, nonprofit organizations and other business entities in tax audits at federal, state and local government levels. We also regularly represent clients before federal, state and local tax authorities; before state trial and appellate courts; and in U.S. Tax Court, U.S. Court of Federal Claims, federal district courts and federal courts of appeals. Our private wealth services team focuses on the unique needs of high-net-worth clients around the globe, including estate planning, gift and estate tax law, and family business succession issues.


McGuireWoods, one of the world’s leading law firms, has provided legal solutions to corporate, individual, and nonprofit clients since 1834. Diversity and inclusion are essential to how we do business, informing how we recruit, retain and promote lawyers and staff to serve clients. Along with excellent benefits, McGuireWoods offers our attorneys a competitive salary with hours and merit bonus opportunities, billable hours credit for pro bono work, and a hybrid remote option allowing flexibility and work-life balance. Our Applicant Disclosures describe your rights. Our Privacy Statement describes how we will process and safeguard your personal data.

  • The ideal candidate would have a minimum of ten years of experience representing a variety of public charities, major colleges and universities, hospitals, healthcare organizations, publicly supported organizations, and supporting organizations, as well as family and corporate private foundations and charitable and scholarship trusts on a variety of federal tax, endowment, and governance matters.  
  • The candidate should be able to address issues related to all aspects of compliance with the federal tax law applicable to charitable and other tax-exempt organizations, as well as with governance, endowment and investment matters, the federal tax rules applicable to private foundations, including self-dealing, excess business holding, and taxable expenditure issues, participation in joint ventures, and consequences of unrelated trade or business activities.  
  • The firm’s needs also include experience in working with charitable institutions and their development teams as well as high net worth donors on structuring planned gifts to charitable organizations, including the use of charitable remainder trusts, charitable lead trusts, charitable gift annuities and other complex gifts. 
  • Excellent academic credentials are required. 
  • Please submit cover letter, resume and transcript.


NOTICE TO SEARCH FIRMS: Firms that wish to present candidates to McGuireWoods LLP must have an active agreement in place.  All search firm candidates should be submitted via the Search Firm Portal.  All other unsolicited submissions by search firms will be deemed not accepted.  For questions or access to the portal, please contact the appropriate Attorney Recruiting Manager.

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