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and discharge, and a wide variety of other employment issues. Nancy has been an
active contributor and leader in civic, cultural and professional organizations,
including the American Bar Association and Washington State Bar Association. She
served as a trustee for the King County Bar Association and is currently an active
participant in its Labor and Employment Law Section.

Nancy Williams co-authored Part 10. Employment Issues, Chapters 61 – 67.

LaVerne Woods
LaVerne Woods is a partner in Davis Wright Tremaine’s Seattle office and chairs the
firm’s Tax-Exempt Organizations group. LaVerne is a past Chair of the American
Bar Association Section of Taxation Exempt Organizations Committee and of the
Washington State Bar Association’s Business Section Nonprofit Corporations
Committee. She is a past Chair and current Vice Chair of the Board of Advisors of
the New York University School of Law National Center on Philanthropy and the
Law, and is an Advisor on the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law of

Charitable Organizations project. She has taught in the University of Washington
School of Law’s Graduate Program in Taxation and is listed in Best Lawyers in
America and in Washington Law & Politics’ “Super Lawyers.” LaVerne represents
nonprofit organizations in matters such as qualification for tax exemption, mergers
and restructuring, joint ventures and entrepreneurial activities, intermediate
sanctions, creation of “friends of” and supporting organizations, unrelated business
income tax, conversions to and from tax-exempt status, advocacy, charitable
solicitations, endowment management, and tax-exempt bond financing. She
advises for-profit corporations on their corporate philanthropy and helps private
foundations establish grantmaking compliance programs and provides grant-
making training workshops. LaVerne is an honors graduate of Yale University and
Harvard Law School.

LaVerne Woods co-authored Part 5. Maintaining Federal Tax-Exempt Status for
Your 501(c)(3) Organization.

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