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.

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About McGuireWoods LLP

McGuireWoods is a great place to launch your career. As an international law firm with 21 offices, we bring on high performers with strong academic credentials and experience who are dedicated to client service, teamwork and excellence. In turn, we deliver a rewarding, supportive firm culture focused on your success, growth and development. McGuireWoods is proud of its summer associate program. As a summer associate, you have the resources and training to develop professionally and perform challenging, sophisticated work early on regardless of your office location — rare opportunities not offered at most other firms. Each summer associate is assigned a supervisor and mentor who introduces them to lawyers in their office and across the firm. Summer associates choose the projects they want to work on based on their practice area interests and they have opportunities to collaborate with McGuireWoods lawyers across the country. Summer associates attend client meetings, depositions, corporate closings, trials and appellate arguments. They also prepare research memoranda and draft pleadings, briefs and corporate transaction documents. In addition, summer associates are involved in:... •special training opportunities; •social events and networking; and •a firmwide summer associate retreat. Summer associates also participate in McGuireWoods’ Pro Bono Mentor Program, which offers them the opportunity to work on a pro bono matter for a client. McGuireWoods makes meaningful investments in the future of diverse legal talent. We promote inclusion in legal education and leadership roles in the profession through programs such as the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity Scholars Program. We also contribute substantially — time, talent and funding — to people and organizations that foster diversity and inclusion in our profession and our communities. Our clients benefit from the different life experiences and backgrounds of our teams. We have seven internal networks that support the success of our diverse and women lawyers and serve as a community to network and grow as professionals and as individuals. We are committed to our clients and communities. Our commitment to help clients includes those without adequate means for high-level representation. Our focus on pro bono work and other service to the communities where we live and work provides us with the chance to give back and gain valuable experience while fostering camaraderie with colleagues and clients. We also focus on the quality of life and the health and well-being of our people. We believe balance makes our work lives better, so we invest in the tools and offer the flexibility you need to succeed. The firm strives to attract standout individuals who are good at what they do and are good people. We know you can choose to come — and to go. That’s why we work so hard to bring out the best in you. Everyone contributes, everyone’s ideas are valued. We seek out, celebrate and reward ideas for improving our firm and setting the service standard other firms follow. We don’t rest on our achievements. That means our best keeps getting better. If you’re committed to our core values of excellence, integrity, client service, diversity and inclusion, collegiality and community, join us. Visit mcguirewoods.com to learn more.

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