Introduction
In 2005, Jon Schumacher retired and currently serves as Of Counsel—after forty years in the Trusts and Estates and Charitable Taxation fields. His half-day time since then has been entirely devoted to charitable boards and pro bono legal projects for nonprofit organizations of all sizes.
My focus
My formal pro bono representations are primarily for revision of corporate by-laws and policies, and counseling on endowment and charitable solicitation matters. The clients qualifying for such pro bono work are necessarily institutions that directly serve the poor or whose budgetary situations would prevent them from securing paid legal counsel for such a project.
Looking ahead
I switched from Trusts and Estates to nonprofit governance matters because at just my time of retirement the post-Sarbanes-Oxley period of heightened scrutiny of corporate governance had begun to involve nonprofits as well, which was soon ramped up and overtaken by very intrusive congressional and Treasury attention to the governance of tax exempt organizations. New York is in the end stage of a process to revamp its nonprofit laws. All of this requires nonprofit boards to review and revise their governing documents and policies and raise their members' understanding of the need for proper standards and compliance.
Admitted to practice
New York
Education
Princeton University, B.A.
University of Virginia, J.D.
Professional activities
Jon Schumacher is a member of the New York State Bar Association (former chairperson of Trusts and Estates Law Section; Executive committee, and various committees concerned with education and legislative revision, and member of the NYS Bar Foundation), and Monroe County Bar Association (former president of its Bar Foundation). He was also a former Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and member of the American Bar Association, and of the New York Legislature’s Legislative Advisory Committee on Trust and Estate matters.
Recognition
In 2012, Jon Schumacher's long service to law was recognized by selection for the New York State Bar Association Trusts and Estates Law Section's Chair Award.
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